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Glassjaw Announce New Album, ‘Material Control’; Drop First Single!
Leaked news confirmed this Black Friday as legendary and influential New York post-hardcore band Glassjaw have officially announced their long-awaited third album Material Control for release next week, December 1st!
Speculation grew when a mysterious pre-order of the album was briefly visible on Amazon and then suddenly disappeared. Word of the pre-order quickly spread across Reddit, Twitter and various music blogs and websites. Glassjaw, notoriously tight-lipped, fueled more speculation when fans across the globe began to randomly receive mysterious mail from the band. The packages included thousands of postcards sent to express the band’s gratitude to the dedicated fanbase who have waited patiently for new music for over a decade (since Glassjaw’s last critically acclaimed full-length release Worship and Tribute in 2002). These ‘thank you’ postcards double as playable vinyl of each new track from Material Control.
The first track from the album, “new white extremity”, was released exactly two years prior to the album’s December 1st release date and precedes the current single “shira”.
Listen below and pre-order the album here.
MATERIAL CONTROL TRACKLISTING:
new white extremity
shira
11 days
golgotha
pretty hell
bastille day
pompeii
bibleland
closer
my conscience weighs a ton
material control
cut and run
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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