Divine Intervention Now is less a band or a collection of songs and more a tonality of being--a Stimmung for the end times. With acoustic instruments and a lo-fi approach, Divine Intervention Now works through the melancholia of doom-folk to arrive at moments of ego-rending ecstasy. Recorded in a bedroom in Fishtown, the five-song Demo of 2012 meditates on themes of alien invasion, global catastrophe, and technology and deftly merges flourishes of exotica with dissonant primitivism. Mirth Control, the manic depressive follow-up of 2014, takes the song-writing and instrumentation further, supplementing the earlier spare arrangements with triumphant horns and thundering drums. The six-song EP aims its polemic ire and its mordant humor right at the site where our longing for salvation and our longing for cataclysm meet. .

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