Fu Manchu announce new album ‘The Return Of Tomorrow’
FU MANCHU have announced a new album!
Titled The Return Of Tomorrow, the upcoming album from the American stoner rock band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Clone Of The Universe, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via their own label At The Dojo Records.
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Scott Hill says, “when I listen to music, it’s either all heavy stuff with no mellow stuff mixed in or just softer stuff with no heavy stuff. I know a lot of bands like to mix it up and we have done that before, but I always tend to listen to all of one type of thing or the other. So, I figured we should do a double record with seven heavy fuzzy songs on one record and the other record six mellow(er) songs fully realizing that maybe I’m the only person that likes to listen to music that way. We kept both the records to around 25-30 minutes each to make it a full-length release, but not have each record be too long. We don’t write a lot of mellow(er) stuff in FU MANCHU, but a lot of the riffs worked minus the fuzz. If you’re a vinyl person, both records are pressed at 45rpm to give it the best sound quality. If you’re a digital person, can make your own playlist and mix both the records together.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, FU MANCHU have released a new song from the upcoming album; Hands Of The Zodiac. Speaking about the new song, Hill says, “Hands Of The Zodiac is about an astrologer friend of mine who would always ask if we wanted to know anything about our future whenever we would hang out. He would look to the stars at night and ramble off all these weird predictions, none of which ever came true. He would say Zodiac Hands and face the palm of his hand at you. I would always try to remember the things he said and almost every line in the song is something he said. For example, ‘Wheels / Motion / So Impressed’ is based on how he talked about my writing songs/practising /touring with the band (“you got those wheels in motion”) and FU MANCHU’s accomplishments (“so impressed”). I guess I should have given him a writing credit.”
Listen to Hands Of The Zodiac here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Dehumanize
2. Loch Ness Wrecking Machine
3. Hands Of The Zodiac
4. Haze The Hides
5. Roads Of The Lowly
6. (Time Is) Pulling You Under
7. Destroyin’ Light
8. Lifetime Waiting
9. Solar Baptized
10. What I Need
11. The Return Of Tomorrow
12. Liquify
13. High Tide
The Return Of Tomorrow is set for release on June 14th via At The Dojo Records. Pre-orders are available now now and can be purchased here.
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