Reformat announce new album ‘Precursed’

June 25, 2023 James Weaver

REFORMAT have announced a new album!

Titled Precursed, the upcoming album from the experimental rock band is the follow-up to 2018’s The Singularity, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Fearbone Records.

After a short break following the release of their first album, project creator Luke Pajak began writing songs for Precursed early in 2019. He comments, “as the months went by, a variety of horrible life shit just kept coming – and I kept channeling it into new music as a way of surviving. Subsequently, where the last album was kind of built upon a sense of optimism, this one is definitely more energised by anger and grief, caused by some of the endlessly shit situations we’ve found ourselves in. Perhaps it hasn’t had the impact to the final sound that I feel it has… ultimately it’s still uplifting rock/electronic music with a focus on melody.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Dētrūsā.

Speaking about the new single, Pajak says, “[Dētrūsā is] being about feeling totally abandoned when life has overwhelmed you and as a last resort, using your anger at the situation to dig yourself out of the shit. For me there’s a feeling of determination that drives the song and I suppose it’s both a bit of a celebration of being able to rely on yourself – and also a sadness that you have to.

The video is open to interpretation really but personally I see it as someone who is totally exhausted from being responsible for carrying the burden of others’ emotions and finally decides ‘fuck this, I’m going to stop making myself responsible’… the burning box is a bit of a blunt metaphor but I feel like that sense of peace at the end of the song and video is like a reward for putting up strong boundaries in unhealthy relationships.”

Watch the official music video for Dētrūsā here: