The 7 years that have passed since No Devotion’s debut album, Permanence, could have ended everything. Implosions of record labels, the world, and to a certain degree, the self, should have knocked everything this band created straight into the void. Instead, their sophomore follow-up, No Oblivion, hits restart and refutes all nihilism. A pristine peer into the darkest lucid dreams in a very dark world, the now-trio – which has been whittled down to Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly alongside the left-behinds of lostprophets in bassist Stuart Richardson and guitarist Lee Gaze – acknowledges nightmare realities on a personal and universal scale without caving into them. Through Richardson’s production rendered beneath a shared atmosphere of night skies where the celestial shimmers against black holes, it’s a document of some of the scene’s most reputable artists bridging the timeline between their post-hardcore influence and cult post-punk and industrial devotionals while processing the lows that come before defining hope on one’s own terms. Art, when created with the intention of being purely expression has the power to transcend experience, ensuring that No Oblivion will exist infinitely with whatever may come.

Highlights: “No Oblivion”, “Love Songs From Fascist Italy”, “Repeaters”

No Devotion’s No Oblivion is available now on Velocity Records.

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