Album Review: The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Illusory Walls

“The pandemic meant that, for the first time, the famously tight collective had to write and record separately. This allowed them to spend weeks, months even, adding more sounds and melodies – including string arrangements and a lot more guitars – to their already-dense sound. And, combined with the horrors of last year, it all adds up to make Illusory Walls by far TWIABP’s most emphatic and vicious album to date. Illusory Walls may be a title borrowed from the video game Dark Souls, but it has a very real connotation: that of the invisible barriers that block people in everyday life, whether that be related to finance, race, gender or otherwise – TWIABP attack them all here.”

I really love the intense and excoriating new album from TWIABP - read my full thoughts on BPM.