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Almost exactly a year since their last project, Full Body 2 returns with the boundary-defying infinity signature Originally from Rochester, NY, the now-Philadelphians deliver a project suspended between this world and the next. Jack Chaffer, Cassidy Rose Hammond, and Dylan Vaisey combine digital textures with noise-forward rock in a hard-hitting 6-track EP—an explorative free fall of sound.
Hurtling through the Earth’s atmosphere, I imagine an intense serenity surrounding me. Look at this world that I came from, to which I am now returning.
Full Body 2 leaps into this free fall with the opening track, “enix wake.” As the initial rush subsides, listeners are drawn away from the powerful wind at their ears and discover a strange beauty emerging in the descent. The track’s playful metric changes induce a weightlessness that is reinforced by the faint vocals sitting deep in the mix. After a grimy, bass-heavy final thirty seconds, “enix wake” transitions into another EP highlight, “wonder limit,” a relatively straightforward piece of shoegaze with lead synths stacked on top of one another. As with much of infinity signature, the song’s lyrics elude contact, slipping through your fingers like sand to the shore. Spend 30 seconds on their website’s lyrics page to see the effect firsthand, then revisit “wonder limit” with renewed perspective.
Although amplification may be what attracts most audiences, Full Body 2’s softer disposition subtly supersedes the noise. The trio dials down on “nokia login,” introducing breakcore drums that provide movement to ambience (á la Four Tet or Instupendo). The track’s final two minutes glide along the airwaves much like the meditative “self-heal,” an instrumental piece content to drift and wander. While half the project was recorded at Headroom Studios, these two tracks were home recorded, creating balance between blistering rock and delicate atmosphere.
With 'infinity signature', Full Body 2 presents shoegaze for the digital age, taking noise beyond its analog limits and finding a cosmic beauty in the process.
You can catch Full Body 2 (with support from They Are Gutting a Body of Water and null) on their EP release tour, which makes its final stop at First Unitarian Church in the great city of Philadelphia. Hosted by 4333 Collective, the show is coheadlined by TAGABOW and features sets from draag me and Solvent OS.
