Decius - Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) [CD]

The Leaf Label

£11.47

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: BAY136CD
Barcode: 843190013623
Release Date: 31 Jan 2025
Genre: Electronic/Dance

A supergroup of sorts - Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Records’ Luke and Liam May, and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Warmduscher - Decius have travelled the earth liberating people from banality since the release of Decius Vol. I. They’ve revealed to all those they’ve encountered just what was missing in their lives: pump without borders, pump without reason - absolute pump.

The second full-length album from Decius – it follows 2022’s Decius Vol. I plus a string of Decius Trax EPs.

Vinyl editions are housed in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by Peter Harris.

Appease the gods with the limited INDIES ONLY ‘Neptune Turquoise’ double vinyl, plus black vinyl and CD.

First single, ‘Walking In The Heat’, is accompanied by an incredible, moist video directed by Niall Trask – at the carwash… yeah.

The Quietus declared Decius Vol. I “The best album of the year” before placing it at number 5 in their AOTY list with ‘Look Like A Man’ hitting #2 in their tracks of the year.

Further AOTY nods included DJ’s Top 40, Juno Daily #2, MusicOMH #3 and Bleep’s Top 100.

You can stream the album here: https://s.disco.ac/emndnedalbjm

Decius live sets at Berghain’s 19th birthday celebrations, Block 9’s NYC Downlow at Glastonbury and Opium Club in Vilnius have set pulses racing, and they count the likes of Dixon, 2manydjs, Honey Dijon, Mochakk, Or:La, Iggy Pop and Depeche Mode as fans.

Now they offer up Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience). It throbs with an almost impossible sense of potential, and expands on the lexicon of molten desire. The sound has moved into new territories, with tastes of house, disco and techno, all with an underlying base note of acid on tracks such as the slippery night cruise intensity of ‘Birth of A Smirk’, where Colonel Abrams gets his nipples tortured. ‘Queen of 14th St’ is all watersports and Cybotron force from Detroit via Deptford. First single ‘Walking In The Heat’ struts like a sunburnt and horny Kraftwerk, while ‘Ghent’ is purest uncut ’88 acid. Vol. II is the art of seduction in damp rooms painted black. Keep hydrated from whatever source is available. Be your own pleasure centre. Vol. II is a veritable selection box of booty bumps and illegal highs made at night for the night and beyond. This is music that takes pride in its walk of shame.

DJ support from Kasper Bjørke, Tia Cousins, Shay Malt, ND_Baumecker, Marcel Dettmann, Erol Alkan, Bicep, Trevor Jackson, Midland, DJ Heidi, Octa Octa, Eats Everything, Eclair FiFi, Ewan McVicar, Tiga, Luke Solomon, Optimo, Maceo Plex, Horse Meat Disco, Richard Fearless, Joe Goddard, Sean Johnston (A Love From Outer Space) and many more

Tracks have appeared on Matthew Dear’s DJ-Kicks compilation, BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes by The Chemical Brothers and Paranoid London, and Hercules & Love Affair’s BBC 6 Music Guest Mix

Expect lots more live/festival action in 2025
CD: 2LP:
1. A1. Birth Of A Smirk (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:39)
2. A2. Walking In The Heat (feat. Lias Saoudi & Alex White) (4:53)
3. B1. Queen of 14th St (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:51)
4. B2. Ghent (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:46)
5. C1. Ibrahim (feat. Lias Saoudi & Maggie The Cat) (4:57)
6. C2. I Gave Birth 2 U (feat. Lias Saoudi & Maggie The Cat) (5:25)
7. C3. Punishment/Improvement (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:03)
8. D1. Y U Look At Me That Way? (feat. Fats McCourt) (5:15)
9. D2. We Carry Our Flamboyance As A Warning (4:37)
10. D3. Arctic Spring (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5.20)

Lias Saoudi appears courtesy of Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

Decius Live:

23 November Peckham Audio London UK

On Decius Vol. I:

“A sordid thrill… It’s also the best album of the year” the Quietus

“A loose amalgam of England's most troublesome, wayward and wanton musicians. Decius gets the groove going in a different way, they kind of come at you out of the dark” Iggy Pop

“There is sleaze running through Decius' veins, though the kind of debauchery here is kept mainly on the dance-floor” Brooklyn Vegan

“Harking back to the rawness of Chicago house music’s Black/LGBT roots - think Adonis’ ‘No Way Back’” DJ magazine

“Primitive bangers” Uncut