Divide & Dissolve

Divide and Dissolve's Takiaya Reed is Black and Cherokee, focusing on Indigenous Sovereignty in her music. She has released two full length albums, Basic (2017) and Abomination (2018) through DERO Arcade before signing with Invada to release Divide and Dissolve's widely acclaimed third album Gas Lit in 2021, which was hailed Mary Anne Hobbs’ Album of the Year. Her dense sound is overwhelmingly heavy; a dissonant pounding of percussion, guitars, piano, synths and saxophone, interwoven with passages of orchestral beauty. A Gas Lit remix EP was released in 2021, including reworkings of Divide and Dissolve’s music by Moor Mother, Chelsea Wolfe and Bearcat.

Divide and Dissolve toured throughout North America and Europe in 2022 supporting Low and playing Roskilde and Desert Daze Festivals. 2023 saw them performing headline dates and festivals in support of the recently released album Systemic, including Supersonic Festival and End of the Road. CVLT NATION coined Systemic as the Number 1 Doom Metal Album of the year, with the album featuring on Spotify playlists 'All New Metal', 'Homegrown + Heavy', 'Fresh Finds Experimental' and 'NPR's New Music Friday'. Towards the end of the year, the soundtrack Takiaya wrote and produced for fashion brand Miu Miu was unveiled on the runway for the s/s 2024 show. 2024 started with a show at legendary Berlin venue Berghain, followed by a tour with Chelsea Wolfe across the USA in February and March. June featured an opening performance at the New York Sculpture Center. An extensive North American headline tour runs from September 2024 for 29 shows, capped off with a performance at the Venice Biennale in October and a performance at MASS MoCA in November.