Dis Fig - What To Make Of These Mortal Hands Dis Fig

Dis Fig, producer and vocalist Felicia Chen, embraces every facet of heaviness. Chen is driven by a desire to express deeper emotions through meticulously crafted, innovative production and expressive vocals. On acclaimed collaborations with The Bug, The Body, and Asian Dope Boys, Chen’s sound is indelible. What To Make Of These Mortal Hands is an ambitious widening of Dis Fig’s scope, traversing tectonic dynamic shifts and heartrending arrangements in a filmic study of humanity’s capacity to create both beauty and devastation.

No stranger to extremes, Dis Fig finds new, exciting combinations and balances to expand their form and shape the sound of their new record. The opening of "Psaltery" employs the titular instrument in pensive plucks along with mechanical clinking and tentative murmurs before giving way to an increasingly potent kick pattern and shrieks bent by distortion. The album crests around the massive crescendos of “The Snake You Built” featuring The Body collaborator Lee Buford and BIG|BRAVE’s Liam Andrews.

What To Make Of These Mortal Hands is structured as scenes; in each, Chen reckons with the capacity of humans for destructive tragedies and revelatory marvels alike. Chen’s voice intones an insatiable, searching quality as electronics burble and settle in fits, while featured artist the wind between acts as a narrator, setting the stage.

Dis Fig has a preternatural ability to ground massive sounds with tactile rhythms and her instinctually connective voice. What To Make Of These Mortal Hands charts a cinematic arc exploring a complex web of feeling with extraordinary purpose and focus. Chen’s curiosity unearths ecstatic and absorbing environments. The album is a staggering display of innovative songcraft and unfathomable emotion–a musical world like no other.