Eight years. That's how long a place both wonderful and strange sat with the songs that became Matter And Desire — an album that began, stalled, and was finally completed when its creators became "different people." The result dropped May 1st, and it sounds like something that couldn't have been made any other way.

Named after a line from Twin Peaks, the New York dark electronic duo of Russ Marshalek and Laura Hajek make "deeply human, smeared and smudged darkwave with feet both on the dance floor and a locked, darkened room." If that description doesn't hook you, this might: they spent a decade performing an audio-visual soundtracking of Laura Palmer's final moments from Twin Peaks, titled "Keys Open Doors: The Hidden Life of Laura Palmer." Their final performance of that show came in April, following the passing of David Lynch, at The Bell House in Brooklyn.

Matter And Desire is about ecology — but specifically about the moment right before something changes forever. The ecological, the political, the personal. Songs built in the breathing space before the break, asking "what am I going to do now because I can't simply do nothing?"

Their last releases were a pair of EPs in 2018. This is the comeback that took eight years to feel authentic. It's available on CD and all major digital platforms.

Stream "It's Not That Bad, Muffin'" (track preview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYpH186UfQ
Bandcamp: https://remissionentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/matter-and-desire
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OBRetZqPLUNgxHcRJ3eWu

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