{"id":16342,"date":"2020-04-29T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T10:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16342"},"modified":"2020-04-29T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T10:51:28","slug":"grid-release-second-album-decomposing-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16342","title":{"rendered":"GRID release second album <em>Decomposing Force<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16345\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16345\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16345\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/GRID-by-Dominika-Michalowska.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/GRID-by-Dominika-Michalowska.jpg 800w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/GRID-by-Dominika-Michalowska-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/GRID-by-Dominika-Michalowska-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dominika Michalowska<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brooklyn noise jazz trio <a href=\"https:\/\/grid.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GRID<\/a> released their second album, <em>Decomposing Force<\/em>, last week through <a href=\"http:\/\/nnatapes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NNA Tapes<\/a>. Progressing from their 2017 self-titled debut, Matt Nelson, Tim Dahl and Nick Podgurski, who make up the trio, recorded the album live in one room with no overdubs and mixed to 1\/2 inch tape. With a vision of music that eschews classification, steeped in a palpable sense of heaviness, <em>Decomposing Forc<\/em>e taps into the band member\u2019s background in free-jazz and improvisational music, as well as Doom-Metal, Noise, and Ambient influences. &#8220;Built on the tenets of weight, difficulty, challenge, collaboration, and adaptability&#8221;, as the press release describes, &#8220;GRID constructs and confronts the oppressive dark\u2014not with transcendent opposition but with an embrace, diving deeper in as a way through. Decomposing Force is sonic catharsis of the highest and harshest caliber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a taste of what they are throwing at us, take a listen to the opening track &#8216;Brutal Kings&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2762904849\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=596893936\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grid.bandcamp.com\/album\/decomposing-force\">Decomposing Force by GRID (Nelson, Dahl, Podgurski)<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn noise jazz trio GRID released their second album, Decomposing Force, last week through NNA Tapes. Progressing from their 2017 self-titled debut, Matt Nelson, Tim Dahl and Nick Podgurski, who make up the trio, recorded the album live in one room with no overdubs and mixed to 1\/2 inch tape. With a vision of music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2311],"class_list":["post-16342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-grid"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16347,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342\/revisions\/16347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}