Several years of DETACH THE ISLANDS live footage come together in the new video for “Refugee Anatomy (2026 Mix).” Created by David Brenner (Gridfailure, Diminishing, Earsplit), the video is now playing on YouTube. The Brooklyn band’s remixed and remastered track appears on Concrete Jungle, an EP available now on Tomb Tree Tapes.
The video’s journey through the band’s performance history reflects the EP’s stated aim of connecting its earlier music with its future direction. Garret de Block/Soundwork International mixed “Refugee Anatomy (2026 Mix),” with mastering by Magnus Lindberg/Magnus Lindberg Productions. The original song appeared on The Burden To Become Fact.
“Refugee Anatomy” addresses chronic illness, drawing on Ceglia’s experience with Crohn’s disease. Its subjects include medication suddenly becoming unusable, fear of the body’s betrayal and uncertainty about the time ahead. The lyrics frame that struggle as a civil war within a grotesque empire, ending with calls for a coup d’état to stop the internal conflict and pain. The announcement describes the song as being for people living with chronic illness who walk “the knife’s edge between normalcy and collapse.”
Concrete Jungle brings together new tracks, remixes and covers of Death Grips and Poison The Well. DETACH THE ISLANDS work across mathcore, hardcore, powerviolence and screamo; the announcement describes the EP’s arrangements through discordant, technical and emotive guitar work, prominent bass, cathartic vocals and precise, expressive drumming. Passages of beauty and release interrupt the music’s sustained discordance.
The EP’s broader lyrical subjects include religion, politics, existentialism and living with Crohn’s disease. Concrete Jungle, including “Refugee Anatomy (2026 Mix),” is available digitally through the band’s Bandcamp and on cassette through Tomb Tree Tapes.
DETACH THE ISLANDS are also working on new material and continuing to perform throughout the NYC region. Their next announced appearance is Thursday, November 12, 2026, at Gold Sounds in Brooklyn, New York.
Photography: Tom Shani.
