Over five years since our last feature on MAR, the Providence based act is back to our pages with gloomy new offering, “Everything Is Alive”, written over three years of ecological disaster and psychological crisis. Coming as a personal expression of remorse, rage, catharsis, and renewal, to reduce ecological damage, the album will be released on digital only, with a limited edition booklet available, as well as a zine that delves deeper into the album’s themes. Today, we look at some of its background and influences of this epic offering: writings, films, and albums which vocalist Kay Belardinelli to the band and inspired “Everything is Alive”: – ecological distress and catastrophe – deep ecology, eco-anarchism, and the interconnectedness of the l...