GILT announce new EP ‘Conceit’

March 27, 2022 James Weaver

GILT have announced a new EP!

Titled Conceit, the upcoming EP from the post-hardcore duo is their brand new studio effort and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Smartpunk Records.

The upcoming EP as a whole explores the topic of grief in its entirety. Each song features a guest vocalist – KIND EYES, Syd Dolezal of DOLL SKIN, Carson Pace of CALLOUS DAOBOYS and Nat Lacuna of THE HOLY GHOST TABERNACLE CHOIR all appear. It was recorded & mixed by Lee Dyess at Earthsound Studios and mastered by Matt Goings, with production consultation from Hansel Romero [NIGHTLIFE].

Speaking about the upcoming EP, vocalist Ash Stixx says, “we’ve spent a lot of time as an emo band talking about grieving and addressing pain, but Conceit is the first material we’ve made since my father passed, and there’s simply no way for it to not be about that in almost every regard because it affects every part of my life. Each song is a vignette, a ‘conceit’ in the literary sense where one emotional reaction to death is explored, bolstered by guest vocalists who were each chosen for their ability to stretch our ideas beyond what we could physically do. The title is a double entendre, these are all poetic metaphors, but the feeling of righteous rage has never come through more and the marriage between those two in Conceit is, to us, perfect.”

Alongside the announcement of the new EP, GILT have released the first song from the upcoming new EP; Amethyst. The new song features a guest appearance from Shaolin G (Jay Webster) of UNITYTX.

“‘Wax wings remade ceramic’ was our big breakthrough lyric in writing the track,” says Stixx about the new song. “It’s an homage to ‘different mistakes in new and almost impressive ways’ from Through Mirrors. We wanted to explore that mindset but get even more bleak about our own limitations. Shaolin (Jay Webster) from UNITYTX absolutely crushed the task of conveying the unhinged freedom of not caring if you die, probably one of the most conceited feelings, and delivering that rage under a pile of literary and art school references to social politics. We spent two quarantine years studying the hardcore side of post-hardcore and we’re very proud to flex our new muscles, and lucky to have guests like Shaolin to push it to the next level. Amethyst is the bridge between some of the optimism we had about growth and forward motion from previous material into the absolute temper tantrum that will follow for the rest of Conceit.”

Listen to Amethyst here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new EP below:

Track List:

1. Amethyst (ft. Shaolin G)
2. The Shape of Tools (ft. KIND EYES)
3. Small Hollow Bones (ft. Syd Dolezal)
4. 209 (ft. Carson Pace)
5. Trophy Hunter (ft. Nat Lacuna)