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The Film

by SUMAC and Moor Mother

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Cassette version of "The Film" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by SUMAC & Moor Mother. One time edition of 150 copies. Housed in silkscreened slipcase (each one slightly different/unique), with j-card featuring alternate artwork by A. Turner. Yellow cassette shell with black print. SIGE Records, 2025.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Film via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Double LP comes in deluxe packaging designed by Aaron Turner

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes with poster insert

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    Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.
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    Last few copies of Limited Ocean Blue color moved to THRILLJOCKEY.com

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1.
Scene 1 04:50
2.
Scene 2: The Run 12:30
3.
Hard Truth 01:49
4.
Scene 3 07:01
5.
Scene 4 04:13
6.
Camera 08:43
7.
The Truth Is Out There 01:16
8.
Scene 5: Breathing Fire 16:37

about

What happens when you combine SUMAC: a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration of noise with Moor Mother: a poet and sound artist that has deconstructed hip hop to a point where it's less about rhyme and rhythm (though obviously both are present in her work) and more about oratorical cadence and power? The Film is an album that takes attributes of both artists' work and finds common ground in shifting musical patterns, and expressive force. The record is a musical thumbing of their noses at the more traditional approaches of their respective fields, an innovative, powerhouse of an album.

The Film’s moniker speaks to the fact that it is conceived and delivered as a complete album, a full story or narrative. Moor Mother puts it best: “The idea is to create a moment outside of the convention. This is a work of art. Thinking about the work as a Film, instead of an album or a collection of songs. This task is impossible in an industry that wants to force everything into a box of consumption. You won't understand or get the full picture until the artwork is completed. This work is developing and is requesting more agency within the creative process.” The Film does have clear themes running throughout – again Moor Mother expounds: “the themes are universal in nature - land - displacement - the climate - human rights and freedoms - war and peace - the idea of running away from the many violent forces and horrific systems of man and empire.”

Heavy, holy, hypnotizing – beyond existence, beyond the fettered constraints of normality, past the false notions of the indoctrinated disguised as the organic, planets form; the detritus of cosmic stuff merges into galaxies, into something that can sound like it’s populated by suns. The Film is just such a work, a nebulitic collaboration between SUMAC and Moor Mother.

The Film was recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle with Scott Evans. The album includes appearances by guest vocalists Kyle Kidd, Sovie, and Candice Hoyes. SUMAC and Moor Mother will be playing select dates worldwide together, including a performance at Roadburn Festival just ahead of album release. This double album is packaged in a custom obi designed by Aaron Turner featuring paintings by Turner and art concepts by Moor Mother.

Nobody told me. Nobody, nobody, nobody.
Nobody told me.
Nobody told me.
Nobody told me, nobody.
Nobody told me.
Nobody.
Nobody told me.
Nobody told me.
Nobody told me.
Nobody told me.

Space travel galactic mind. Captive needs space. Need to escape from the time matrix. Religious hatred. Love has been reinstated. Has been reinstated.

Nobody told me.

Nobody told me.
Nobody told me.
Space.
Nobody told me.

So long they've been hating, waiting, debating how to keep you enslaved.
So long they've been hating, waiting, debating how to keep you enslaved.
Better lose your mind, lose your mind, lose your mind, lose your mind.
Run away, better lose your mind, hurt off, dust off, hate off, change off, devil off, better run and lose your mind.

Nobody told me.
Nobody told me.
Nobody told me
Change your mind. Devil off, better run and lose your mind.
Nobody told me.

Love has been reinstated. Nobody told me. Nobody told me. Nobody told me.

Nobody told me how love was supposed to be. How peace was supposed to be. How peace was supposed to be. To be. Nobody told me how peace was, how peace was supposed to be. How love, how peace, how peace, how peace, how love, how peace...

Nobody told me how peace...

credits

released April 25, 2025

Original score written, composed and arranged by SUMAC and Moor Mother

All lyrics and titles by Moor Mother

Moor Mother - vocals, synths, effects
Nick Yacyshyn - drums, percussion, synths
Aaron Turner - guitar, vocals, electronics
Brian Cook - bass

Kyle Kidd - additonal vocals on “Scene 3”
Sovei - additional vocals on “Scene 4”
Candice Hoyes - additional vocals on “Hard Truth”

Produced by Moor Mother and SUMAC
Engineered and mixed by Scott Evans
Recorded at Studio Litho, Seattle, WA, December 2023
Mixed at Antisleep Audio, Oakland, CA, October 2024
Additional recording by Moor Mother, N. Yacyshyn and A. Turner
Mastered by Matthew Barnhart, Chicago Mastering, Chicago, IL, October 2024

Cover concept based on photograph by Moor Mother
Cover painting, additional artwork and design by A. Turner

(c) Moor Mother and SUMAC, 2025 / (p) Thrill Jockey, 2025

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SUMAC is the powerhouse trio of Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom,Mamiffer), Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes). SUMAC invests in the recursive exercises of chaos and control, and the results are a testament to the tour-honed collective intuition and technical skills of these veteran players. ... more

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