Basement announce new album ‘WIRED’
BASEMENT have announced a brand new album!
The British alternative rock mainstays will return on May 8th with WIRED, marking their first new album in eight years and a reunion with their original label, Run For Cover Records.
Speaking about the album, guitarist Alex Henery says, “I never thought BASEMENT could sound like this. But in my head, it’s what I’ve always wanted BASEMENT to sound like.”
To coincide with the announcement, the band have released two lead singles. WIRED and Broken By Design, offering a first look at the record’s dynamic range. “WIRED is about how sometimes it feels that we are set up to feel and behave in certain ways beyond our control,” explains vocalist Andrew Fisher. “That no matter how hard you try to hide it, eventually it will come out – either by choice or by force. This song was almost lost – a few of us were into it, but it sort of lost traction for a bit. Then one day it cropped back up and we put it at the forefront of our minds and it ended up being one of my favourite songs to perform and record.”
He adds about Broken By Design, “Broken By Design is about giving something your absolute best and realising it’s destined to fail. Getting to the other side of the situation, looking back and deciding to do everything differently and feeling grateful for the opportunity to grow. We’ve all done a lot of work on getting better at talking to each other as friends and as band mates. Sometimes that’s an easy distinction – or rather, not a distinction at all. Other times, the lines are blurred and we lose track of who we are and why we do this. When I’m singing, ‘let’s go back to the start’ I mean to when we did this purely for fun. For an excuse to see each other, to travel, to be creative, to express ourselves through music. We all feel so lucky to be in a position to still get to do this and this album and this song in particular, is us trying to go back to how it should be.”
Watch the official video for WIRED here:
Watch the official video for Broken By Design here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Time Waster
- WIRED
- Deadweight
- Broken By Design
- Pick Up The Pieces
- Embrace
- Sever
- The Way I Feel
- Satisfy
- Head Alight
- Longshot
- Summer’s End
WIRED is set for release on May 8th via Run For Cover Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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