Intensive Care + The Body unleash a sonic nightmare with ‘Was I Good Enough?’

When two forces of sonic destruction collide, the result is nothing short of seismic. Toronto’s Intensive Care (Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer) and Rhode Island’s The Body (Chip King and Lee Buford) have joined forces for ‘Was I Good Enough?,’ a collaborative album that feels like it was ripped from the depths of some industrial nightmare. Across eight tracks, the duo conjures a world of glitch-ridden noise, guttural howls, and a punishing electronic backbone—melding their individual styles into something raw, volatile, and hypnotic.

Now, they unleash the album’s second single, The Riderless Mount, a track that pulses with menace and restraint. According to Nolan, the song is their “ode to different eras of hip-hop.” The first half strips everything down to vocals and an amplified Roland TR-808, letting the rawness shine. Then, as The Body takes over, the guitars slow to a crawl, get diced up in a sampler, and reassembled into a warped, uneasy rhythm. In true DIY spirit, Chip’s vocals were recorded straight into Nolan’s iPhone in a green room before a show.

A Collaboration Years in the Making

The seeds for ‘Was I Good Enough?’ were planted back in 2018 when the bands toured together, but it wasn’t until 2021 that the project took shape. The Body laid the foundation, sending raw material to Intensive Care, and over the next year and a half, both groups twisted and reshaped the music into something unrecognizable.

“What started as years and years of admiration—both musically and personally—turned into a full-fledged album,” says Lee Buford of The Body. Bloomer echoes the sentiment: “We’ve always connected with The Body’s approach. In a conventional sense, we’re both rooted in heavy music, but we push beyond those limits, redefining what ‘heavy’ even means.”

To do that, they leaned into chopped and screwed production—a technique pioneered in Houston hip-hop. Slowing down, stretching out, and layering elements, they warped the raw material into something darkly hypnotic. “We deliberately slowed parts down, doubled up on vocals, and leaned into those hip-hop techniques,” Bloomer explains. “It’s this real back-and-forth between two bands, coming together to make something entirely new.”

Was I Good Enough? Drops March 14

Pre-order the album now and prepare for impact.

Artwork by Jon Kortland (Iron Lung / Pig Heart Transplant)

Tracklist:

1. Mistakes Have Been Made
2. Swallowed by the God
3. The Misunderstanding
4. At Death’s Door
5. The Riderless Mount
6. Cartography of Suffering
7. Unwanted
8. Mandelbrot Anamnesis

Intensive Care – Bandcamp | Instagram
The Body – Bandcamp | Instagram