Show Me The Body (16 and Over)

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Alone Together is an album about praxis. Putting belief into action. The opening line, “radical love compels me to fight”, reflects lived experience, the act of standing up for one another and for what you believe in, regardless of the outcome. Working alongside producers Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume III, Show Me The Body has recontextualized their core language into something with more focus, urgency, and clarity than ever before. Alone Together is not about atmosphere but about direct communication, a call to galvanise ourselves and the people around us. Stand with us baby. Thank you for being here. Even if you feel alone Don’t trip on it Cause we can stand alone together. Bones of Show Me The Body's fourth full-length album formed first in their Corpus studio, in the basement of the building that also serves as the New York City collective's headquarters and the home in which frontman Julian Cashwan Pratt lives with his young family. Writing the album in the wake of the birth of his daughter, who arrived just two years before the release of the hardcore trailblazers'most harrowing and most joyous output to date. Alone Together brings the band's ethos of resilience in the darkest moments into startling focus. Alone Together is about praxis. Pratt and the band’s cofounder, Harlan Steed, brought in composer Gio Escobar and his cohort of musicians from Standing on the Corner. "We would send Gio certain riffs from the record," Pratt explained, "and he would recontextualise those riffs in the language of lonely New York City jazz, in the vernacular that Standing on the Corner has, that we love and appreciate." That's the first thing you hear on Alone Together's opening track, "Alone Interlude": one of Pratt's crushing riffs transmuted into horn section bombast, with Pratt chanting "welcome, welcome, welcome.” Klas Åhlund, one of the album's producers, came over from Sweden to visit Pratt and Steed in Queens and gave a blunt assessment of the band's demos. "He caught…