Style-defying hardcore collective The Armed are gearing as much as launch their extremely anticipated new album THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED on August 1, and immediately they’ve unleashed its closing single: the caustically hook-laden “Sharp Enamel.” An ideal showcase of their expertise for marrying chaos with melody, “Sharp Enamel” additionally marks the return of the elusive Dan Greene, who seems within the music’s paranoid, surveillance-themed music video.
Directed with The Armed‘s signature meta-artistic aptitude, the “Sharp Enamel” video options nods to efficiency artwork icon Marina Abramović‘s “The Artist Is Current”, a helicopter, and a sequence of cryptic visible easter eggs that may possible preserve followers dissecting lengthy after the primary watch.
“It is music for a statistically rich inhabitants that by some means cannot afford meals or drugs – endlessly scrolling previous trip photographs, health club selfies, and pictures of kid amputees in the identical feed. It displays the dissociation required simply to exist in that actuality,” stated The Armed frontperson Tony Wolski.
The one follows earlier tracks “Kingbreaker” and “Effectively Made Play,” each of which launched followers to the brand new sonic and thematic course of THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED. True to The Armed‘s type, the album leans into their unrelenting exploration of cultural collapse, dystopia, and the unreality of recent life.
The album contains a staggering record of contributors, together with Ken Szymanski, Patrick Shiroishi, Urian Hackney, Kurt Ballou, Troy Van Leeuwen, Meghan O’Neil, Cara Drolshagen, Tony Wolski, Brian Wolski, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Ben Chisholm, Prostitute, Zach Weeks, Mark Guiliana, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, and Derek Coburn – mixing brutalist noise with considerate nuance, art-rock theatricality, and relentless experimentalism.
Pre-order THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED right here. You can too catch The Armed with Prostitute at one of many dates under.
8/14 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
8/15 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge
8/16 Washington, DC The Atlantis
9/16 Seattle, WA Substation
9/17 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
9/19 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Cease
9/20 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy Theatre
12/12 Chicago, IL Thalia Corridor
12/13 Detroit, MI El Membership
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