Released 5th November 2021.

If one overarching feeling has dominated the last two years on this orbiting rock,
it’s uncertainty. A sense of an old order in ruins, and nothing lined up to replace it.
With societal strife, psychic warfare and sheer boredom assaulting us from all fronts
in this still-fresh decade, co-ordinates have been hard to place forging a path forward.
Therefore, who better to turn to as a soundtrack for this tumultuous new era than
Gnod - longtime chroniclers of discord.

“The Death Of Meaning” is the translated rendering of the new Gnod album’s title,
and this also reflects its creation. As Paddy Shine of Gnod notes: “I think the title
sums it up well because this album was coming together at a time when confusion
was king for us all - still is. I think we can all relate to that. This record is a really
strange beast because of the big change that happened between mixing and
recording. I think the title really does sum up the vibe of ‘What the Fuck’? Maybe we
should have called it that!” 

Wielding the taut, stripped-down and bludgeoning sound that had evolved on
2017’s ‘Just Say No The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death
Machine’ and 2018’s Chapel Perilous, Gnod initially recorded the tracks for
‘La Mort Du Sens’ with key soundman and collaborator Raikes Parade in ‘an old
mill in Manchester’ around the Christmas period of 2019. “It’s the first album in a while
where we kept it in-house and DIY, and we wanted it to be as ferocious as our live sets
have become” says Paddy, “We banged it all down live - two drummers and a load of
cabs in a room pushing each other forward”

Nonetheless, the arrival of the pandemic in early 2020 took the record on another
course, adding to a turbulent and cathartic vitality that electrifies the likes of the
caustic Melvins-in-hell assault of ‘Pink Champagne Blues’, the uncompromising
percussive battering ram of the twelve-minute ‘Giro Day’ and the post-punk
angularity of ‘The Whip And The Tongue’ with a fearsome elemental charge. “The
world changed two months later so we were mixing this old world record in the new
world and a lot of the vox got laid down during lockdown” reflects Paddy. “‘Pink
Champagne Blues’ is a burst of total nihilist abandon and the lyrics wrote themselves
in the midst of a dark wintry night of the soul”

Masters of an approach which manages to be both unmistakable and unpredictable.
Gnod are now well established as prophets of the dispossessed. ‘La Mort Du Sens’
is no less than another relentlessly invigorating stop-off on their wild ride to who
knows where. “It’s all about the energy” reckons Paddy. “We never really know what’s
coming next. It just organically shifts around, and I think we are getting better at not
analysing where it’s going and just going with the flow”
“Got No Obvious Destination, innit”

Dinked Edition 143
● Tri-colour splatter vinyl (clear/red/blue) LP 
● Alternative die-cut gravestone sleeve 
● 300 x 600 poster of unique commission art by Helen McDonnell 
● Numbered Edition 
● Limited pressing of 500