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The Body & Intensive Care

Posted by Loren on January 22, 2025

The Body & Intensive Care
photo by Jake Ballah

Dual duos Intensive Care + The Body have teamed up, announced a new collaborative album titled Was I Good Enough? 

The new record will release on March 14 on Closed Casket Activities.

“Our motivations are very similar,” Ryan Bloomer of Intensive Care says via press release. “This collaboration made sense because we weren’t necessarily bringing anything separate; it seemed like we were bringing two sides together in order to make a bigger whole. At the same time, we didn’t repeat ourselves. You’re going to hear two guitar-based bands who didn’t use much guitar at all on this. It’s a largely electronic album, but it sounds as heavy as any guitar-based music I’ve ever done.”

The bands toured together in 2018, with the eventual collaboration beginning to take share in 2021.

The new record has 8 tracks in total, including this new one:

Was I Good Enough? track listing:

  1. Mistakes Have Been Made
  2. Swallowed by the God
  3. The Misunderstanding
  4. At Death's Door
  5. The Riderless Mount
  6. Cartography of Suffering
  7. Unwanted
  8. Mandelbrot Anamnesis
The Body & Intensive Care
photo by Jake Ballah

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