Activity - Department of Blood

In Our Headphones · Oct 25, 2023 · 3m

Activity - "Department of Blood" from the 2023 album Spirit in the Room on Western Vinyl

The latest LP from Brooklyn band Activity — titled Spirit in the Room — is appropriately "haunting." Songs take inspiration from the loss of vocalist/mutli-instrumentalist Travis Johnson's mother to pancreatic cancer, including today's Song of the Day.

“The grief was (and sometimes is) this colossal thing,” he shares in a press statement, “and I kept finding myself thinking of how I could find her or get in touch with her, like there was a phone number or address and I just had to find it.”

As he explains…