Saleeha & TVISB – Bear This Suffering With Grace LP

A joint exploration of tension, decay, and presence. Artists Saleeha and TVISB have come together for Bear This Suffering With Grace, a collaborative full-length album that blends guitar, voice, and electronics into a series of evolving sonic textures. Set for release via Self-Proclaimed Deity in July 2025, the album moves through elements of industrial minimalism, dark ambient, and devotional music. Though they've shared mutual respect for years, this marks their first full-length recorded collaboration. Instead of following traditional song structures, the album grew from a long exchange of ideas—vocal sketches, ambient layers, experimental drones, and guitar improvisations—gradually forming a body of work that feels both expansive and focused. Saleeha’s guitar work is central to the album’s shape: spare, tactile, and sometimes stark, it cuts through or dissolves into the surrounding soundscapes, grounding even the most abstract moments. His playing shifts from delicate harmonic patterns to raw, droning textures, often blurring the line between instrument and atmosphere. Saleeha’s voice—at times clear and immediate, at others processed and obscured—interacts with TVISB’s dense, metallic sound design, creating a push and pull between the intimate and the overwhelming. Built from manipulated samples and worn-down electronics, the tracks move between steady, hypnotic rhythms and moments of near silence. The lead single, “The Thick of the Bough,” offers a snapshot of this interplay. The accompanying video, directed by Saleeha, plays with themes of presence and absence, echoing the album’s balance of grounded instrumentation and abstract atmosphere. Reflecting on the process, Saleeha says: “There was no fixed idea, just an unspoken language we found in the process. The more we leaned into that, the stranger and more honest it became.” TVISB adds: “There was an implicit agreement not to force shape onto the material. The record is a document of that unfolding.”