Denver-based band SUNGRAVE and Portland Oregon duo Creaturess come together, forming a collaboration rooted in atmosphere and weight. The two acts merge their respective worlds into something expansive and deeply felt.
Cold Flesh and No One is built around a harrowing and very real history. During the rapid escalation of the Rwandan Civil War, six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and her fifteen-year-old sister Claire were torn from their family. For six years they moved through refugee camps and abandoned homes across Central Africa, surviving war, abuse, hunger, and disease. Reunification came twelve years later, on the other side of the world, long after childhood had been stripped away.
That sense of loss, endurance, and dislocation sits at the core of the two-track EP that needs to be experienced as a whole. Cold Flesh and No One reflects on a world where rootedness is fragile and displacement is increasingly politicized and demonized. Rather than offering answers, the record holds space for contradiction, as the music carries a great deal of sentimentality without dramatics, allowing tension and atmosphere to do the work.
The EP itself is the result of a collaborative effort. Written, produced, and performed jointly by SUNGRAVE and Creaturess during their Fall 2025 Midwest tour, the record feels collective. The cover art was painted by Denver-based artist Josh Porter, directly inspired by the music and its concept.
Drums were recorded with Austin Minney at All Aces Studio, mixed by SUNGRAVE’s Nick Brazzel at Sound In Time Studios, and mastered by Felipe Patino at Green Door Recordings.
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