True Body are a Goth-pop/post-punk band based out of Richmond, Virginia that formed in 2015. The outfit is fronted by Isabella Moreno-Riaño, who recently came out as transgender. Fresh off collaboration with rising peers SRSQ, True Body preparing to release their debut album Heavenly Rhythms For The Uninitiated on April 3rd via Funeral Party Records.

The LP sees a refining the band’s post-punk sound to include shades of Goth, synth-pop, and more, and establishes without a doubt True Body’s place among an active scene of dark pop provocateurs that includes Choir Boy, Sextile, and Boy Harsher, among others.

True Body’s sound is a distillation of the eclectic community they call family – denizens of the hardcore and punk spheres, powerful trans thinkers and magicians, soldiers of techno and other various dance musik disciplines. Moreno-Riaño (vocals) is joined by Sam Ramos (drums), Kevin Painter (guitar), Hector Castro (guitar), and Nate/Camille Byrum (bass).

Two singles have been unveiled so far; the dynamic post-punk“Spirit City” with its accompanying video and tuneful, up-beat “Television.”

Big Takeover is thrilled to host the premiere of the latest single, the mesmerizing and noir “Youth Hotel.” It’s a prime number from Heavenly Rhythms For The Uninitiated.

The track opens with a high-pitched warning note before settling into a gentle synths-driven dispersion punctuated by heavy drum strikes and clinking percussion. Ominous vocals from Moreno-Riaño, a low-end bass line, and grimy notes emerge in the shadowy atmosphere.

Moreno-Riaño continues to hypnotically sing-talk throughout the song, alternating between a lighter, dreamy tone and a deep, baleful mood amid glimmers of reverberating guitar chime and miasmic washes of synths, and airily sighing backing vocals.

Moreno-Riaño reveals, “I don’t remember writing the demo for “Youth Hotel.” It felt like it appeared on its own. Camille and I found it buried deep in my hard drive and decided to flesh it out. It still feels kind of strange to play, like we’re performing a song we heard faintly while trawling a stranger’s memories. This is a good example of a song that felt like it creeped into our lives from somewhere else and ended up manifesting itself in our experiences onward.”

“It’s maybe the darkest song on the record and it was reflected in some fairly dark things we ended up encountering on the road and in our home town. It’s a landscape of sensation, each felt by a different narrator, or a collective experience, clear of identity separation. When you listen, you are hearing the sound of the spirit itself.”

Pre-Order Heavenly Rhythms For The Uninitiated at Funeral Party Records

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