Anti-Flagilta uusi albumi tammikuussa: Ensimmäinen single ”Laugh. Cry. Smile. Die.” kuunneltavissa

Yhdysvaltalainen pitkän linjan punk rock -yhtye Anti-Flag on julkaisemassa seuraavan albuminsa ”Lies They Tell Our Children” tammikuun 6. päivä Spinefarm Recordsin kautta. Yhtye kertoo tulevasta albumistaan seuraavaa:

”Look, this is our 13th album. There’s no other way to put it; Lies They Tell Our Children is the best fucking version of Anti-Flag we have ever been. We haven’t been afforded the privilege and ability to spend every day together writing and focusing on every detail of an album in well over a decade and I think you can feel that collaboration and collectiveness in these songs more than any other record of ours. That collaboration was only extrapolated on with the inclusion of the eight guests who are featured on the album, spanning genres, years of friendship, and a vast array of perspectives.”

”The album itself is the first conceptual album the band has ever done, spawned out of a compulsive need to not just comment on the dystopian corporate wasteland we all face but to trace it back to the origin of this fate; the political policies, laws, cultural shifts, and lineage of injustice that have led us to the world we live in today.”

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”Like the band itself, of course the album is an anti-war statement both in the literal and figurative sense. This is an important moment in history and demands an urgent response, but we thought it was also important that we retrace our footsteps to the beginning of these issues. In order to better understand how to eradicate climate devastation, imperialism, war based economics, systems predicated upon racism, and the increasing belief that these things do not even exist, you have got to take people to the source. This idea is the crux of The Lies They Tell Our Children; put this wretched history in their face and demand their empathy.”

Bändi on julkaissut tulevalta albumiltaan ensimmäisenä singlenä kappaleen nimeltä ”Laugh. Cry. Smile. Die.”, jossa vierailijana kuullaan Silversteinin Shane Toldia. Voit katsoa kappaleesta julkaistun musiikkivideon tästä:

Kappalelista:

1. Sold Everything
2. Modern Meta Medicine (Ft. Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage))
3. Laugh. Cry. Smile. Die. (Ft. Shane Told (Silverstein))
4. Fight of Our Lives (Ft. Tim McIllrath (Rise Against) + Brian Baker (Bad Religion))
5. Imperialism (Ft. Ashrita Kumar (Pinkshift))
6. Victory or Death (We Gave’Em Hell) (Ft. Campino (Die Toten Hosen))
7. The Hazardous
8. Shallow Graves (Ft. Tre Burt)
9. Work & Struggle
10. NVREVR (Ft. Stacey Dee (Bad Cop / Bad Cop))
11. Only in My Head