LA-bred avant garde collective Melted Bodies are set to complete their EP trilogy with the final entry in the set in The Inevitable Fork. The final release in the collection is due out October 18th and completes the band's overarching narrative of personal exploration and evolution.
Speaking to the connective current that drives the project, the band's Andy Hamm details the personal implications of the EP and how humanity ultimately loans itself to the band's intricate brand of musical ferocity.
"We all have arrived at, or are approaching our own version of what I call “The Inevitable Fork”, and this overarching theme informs most of these songs in some way, much of which is very personal. Our bloodlines, mental health, past traumas, accomplishments, and regrets eventually lead us all to choose one of this fork’s many prongs to follow."
Hamm continues, "Maybe we accept that it’s all imperfect, and we embrace our flaws to make anew or try again. Or perhaps we avoid, stall, numb, or overindulge. We’ve all been told “it’s now or never,” but yet we have heard that so many times. This stigma feeds our avoidance, unaccountability, and utter laziness. But rest assured ‘The Inevitable Fork’ is coming for us all whether we appreciate it or appall it.”
Further delving into the notion of personal confrontation, the band have shared their urgent new single, "Bloodlines". The industrial-tinged banger, bolstered by an EBM-esque throb, asserts a relentless musical pace in confronting inherited trauma and dealing with the fallout from generations past.
Hamm offered more insight to the single and shared the personal importance that exists between the lines. “Bloodlines toils and tussles with the idea that all of us have unique pre-loaded behaviors, emotions and traits in our bloodlines. The past addictions, traumas, bodily shapes, love, nurture, disease etc. are passed down to us generation after family generation.
I find myself longing for an emotional and physical tenderness that my mother held back on at points, paying for mistakes that my father perhaps made, a history of alcoholism and depression on both sides of my family etc. We spend a majority of our lives yearning to fix, understand or struggle with these genetics we never asked for.”
Melted Bodies complete their EP trilogy with The Inevitable Fork arriving October 18th. Pre-order the release - HERE
