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

Released 8th October 2021.

VinylReleased 3rd December 2021.

SK says: "Vocalist David Bello remains one of America's sharpest poets of precarity and, despite their now traditional between album line-up changes and lockdown-enforced remote recording, 'Illusory Walls' contains some ofTWIABP's most proggily technical and cathartically expansive music, particularly on the two epic closing tracks which account for half the album's runtime between them. Political, reflexive and immaculately sequenced. A vital album."

Sometimes, the best place to begin is at the end. If you really want to dig deep into Illusory Walls, the fourth album by The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, it definitely helps to do that. That's because epic closer "Fewer Afraid" - all 19 minutes, 44 seconds of it - doesn't just revisit the themes and ideas on the ten songs that precede it, but al