In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers of 10 recently announced albums and EPs in the alternative music world.
Sleeping With Sirens – An Ending in Itself
Credit: Travis Shinn
Sleeping With Sirens will release new album An Ending in Itself on June 12.
It is the band’s eighth album and sees them revisit the sound of their older days whilst incorporating some of their newer elements.
Tracklist:
Forever/Always
God In My Head
Need You Here
Left On Repeat
House Of Matches
Waiting For You
Paralyzed
Process
PTSD
Looking Back At Me
Storm Clouds
Citizen – Halcyon Blues
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Citizen will release new album Halcyon Blues on August 7 through Run For Cover Records.
“A lot of bands try to do anything they can to be the hottest thing of the moment and we’ve just never operated like that,” says guitarist Nick Hamm.
“We don’t think in moments, or months, or record cycles. Some bands end up getting sick of whatever walls they exist in, but I see Citizen as this long term creative project where there’s always somewhere new to go, and that’s kept me exhilarated through all these years. And we’ve trusted that people who like our band will want to come along. A lot of people grew with us and we’re really thankful for that.”
Tracklist:
Good Fortune
I Can See You From Here
Halcyon Blues
Is It In My Brain
Always The Last One to Leave
Either Way
Matador
Ether
Smooth Talker
Highs and Lows
Anne
Kris Barras Band – Monsters We Made
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Kris Barras Band will release new album Monsters We Made on August 14 through Earache Records.
Kris said: “We wanted big singalongs, big riffs, big solos.
“The kind of hard rock music that belongs in arenas; dense, complex and able to energise the biggest crowds.“
Kris adds: “I am who I am, and I like to play complicated guitar solos… this album is full of ’em, but they elevate the songs, never detract from them.”
Tracklist:
Monsters We Made
Beautiful Lie
Unspoken
Alive
Otherside
Fake
Rewind
End Of Me
Levitate
The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw
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The Menzingers will release new album Everything I Ever Saw on July 17 through Epitaph.
Vocalist/guitarist Tom May said: “So much changed in our lives and in the world while we were making this record, and somehow, it all pulled us deeper into the band and deeper into our friendship.
“20 years in and this is the most connected we’ve felt to what we’re doing. I’d always heard ‘bigger kids, bigger problems,’ and there’s truth in that, but there’s also bigger answers and deeper meaning. There’s a kind of hard-won hope you can only find on the other side of real change. In all the uncertainty of life and the world it’s easy to go straight to cynical. Easy to say fuck it all. With ‘Everything I Ever Saw,’ we wanted to lean into all of it, head on. The whole damn thing.”
Tracklist:
Better Angels
Romanticism
Other People’s Money
Gasoline & Matches
The Fool
Breathe With Me
When She Enters My Dreams
Parade Day
Everything I Ever Saw
Rising Insane – Deathrace
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Rising Insane will release new album Deathrace on August 21 through Long Branch Records.
The band have also released the title track and said: “With DEATHRACE, we realized very early on that we hadn’t just written a single for the album, but also the title track.
“For one thing, the track has that energy we feel when we’re on stage celebrating with the crowd. On the other hand, the song describes the state of the world pretty accurately; alongside anger and despair, there’s also a call to stick together in these times.”
Tracklist:
INTRO
DEATHRACE
COUNTDOWN
OUTRAGE
TRAUMATIZED
DARK (FEAT. ACCVSED)
NARCISSIST
DIRT
GREY (FEAT. DAVID SCHNEIDER)
ERROR (FEAT. STEVEN JONES)
GOOD ENOUGH (FEAT. CASKETS)
Disfiguring The Goddess – Bloom
Disfiguring The Goddess will release new album Bloom on July 31 through Seek and Strike.
Cameron Argon, the brains behind Disfiguring The Goddess, said: “Bloom is an album about accumulation, cultivation, and execution. There are a lot of themes running through it, both personal and sonic, but when I step back and look at the bigger picture, it symbolizes nurturing the seed of DTG until it finally blossoms. It is the beginning of a new chapter and the closing of an old one.”
Tracklist:
Samba of the Faceless
Echoes Fade, I Remain
Deathcore Song
AWOL
Mask Off (feat J Figure)
Sweet Dreams (feat Four Stroke Baron)
Goddess Box (feat Bodybox)
Deep Sway
Permission to be Claimed
Kiss the Dice
Black Widow Spider
Dapper (feat Four Stroke Baron)
Pleasure Island
Old Man’s Bones
Lose the Head
Penance
Borderline – Borderline
Borderline will release their self-titled debut album on June 26 through EMPIRE.
The New Zealand youngsters said: “Our self-titled debut album is something we’re all incredibly proud of. It’s the sum of every single corner of musical inspiration from all four of us. Every song has its own character and place for us, shaped through sessions in home studios and late nights, before coming together in Roundhead’s Brick Room, taking advantage of the vintage synths and timepiece guitars, as we explored and refined the overarching soundscape for the project.”
Colorblind – Who Sold You This Truth ++ Was it Yours to Hold
Credit: Alex Bemis
Colorblind will release debut album Who Sold You This Truth ++ Was it Yours to Hold on August 28 through Solid State Records.
Tracklist:
Pressure
Car Crash
Needle Eye
Chemical Warfare
Letdown
Misery Loves Company
Incomplete
Royal Blood
Neversleep
The Countdown
God Complex
Lost In Translation
Heavy Heart
Paradox
Cynical
The Meffs – Business
The Meffs will release new album Business on September 11 through FLG.
Tracklist:
Dreamin’
What A Nightmare
Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Business
Law
Fight
Disorder (Wake Up)
Love To Lose
So Modern (Keep Up)
God Complex
Like Gravity
Mimi Barks – Dreamstate of Fear
Credit: Greg Phenix
Mimi Barks will release new EP Dreamstate of Fear on July 24.
Tracklist:
Ophelia
Jericho
Power durch Verrat
Polarity
Butterfly in Chains
States of Consciousness
