Big|Brave announce new album ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’

BIG|BRAVE have announced a new album!

Titled A Chaos Of Flowers, the upcoming album from the Canadian heavy music innovators is the follow-up to last year’s nature morte, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Thrill Jockey.

Lyrically, the songs explore the most vulnerable of human experiences, how marginalisations manifest internally and externally, the inner struggles of isolation, and co-existence in nature. A Chaos Of Flowers draws on catharsis and beauty as well as the quagmire of disorientation and othering. The album intends to be a monument of simultaneous serenity and disquiet, a subtle maelstrom of internal life.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, BIG|BRAVE have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; i felt a funeral. Speaking about the new music video, guitarist Mathieu Ball says, “the making of this video employed a similar process as we do when writing music. As we’ve learned to let the flow of ideas take its course, the act of creating works whether with fully formed concepts or an unfinished notion, starting the work itself acts as a sort of guide to where the final outcome may land. We realised that something more visually minimal than what we first imagined was the way to go.”

By using a single-take that loosely follows Wattie’s movements, with moments of imperfection, lost focus, and fluctuations in lighting, “the performer (Robin) and the audience both partake in this visual and aural conversation together creating a more intimate visual space. The audience is led in and out of her intimate space all while being kept at safe distance. Paired with the lyrical content, it can be considered an apt representation of the elements of mental collapse – a simplified visual dance with the inner and outside world.”

Watch the official music video for i felt a funeral here:

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

Track List: 

1. i felt a funeral
2. not speaking of the ways
3. chanson pour mon ombre
4. canon : in canon
5. a song for Marie part iii
6. theft
7. quotidian : solemnity
8. moonset

A Chaos Of Flowers is set for release on April 19th via Thrill Jockey. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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