KEN Mode announce new album ‘Null’

June 11, 2022 James Weaver

KEN MODE have announced a new album!

Titled Null, the upcoming album from the Canadian noise rock band is the follow-up to 2018’s Loved and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Artoffact Records.

The upcoming album was recorded and mixed by Andrew Schneider [CAVE IN, UNSANE] and is the first release to feature collaborator Kathryn Kerr as a full-fledged member of the band. Frontman Jesse Matthewson proclaims the new album to be “a direct psychological reaction to the collective experience of the last two and a half years… a documentation of trying to not fall apart. The album exposes the emotional core of combating mental illness when one’s fine-tuned coping mechanisms have been involuntarily stripped away.”

As the COVID pandemic threatened the essential, stabilizing forces in his life – including the ability to create, tour, and connect with the world, via KEN MODE – Matthewson says he sunk to new depths. “I’ve built my adult life around communities and activities that have both given it meaning and helped me manage my own mental health,” he states. “In 1999 I didn’t know why I needed to create, I just wanted to. In 2022, it’s one of the only acts I have left that keeps away crippling depression. I need this act to concentrate and neutralize the poison in my brain.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; A Love Letter. The new music video was first premiered via Revolver.

Watch the official music video for A Love Letter here:

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

Track List:

1. A Love Letter
2. Throw Your Phone in the River
3. The Tie
4. But They Respect My Tactics
5. Not My Fault
6. Lost Grip
7. The Desperate Search for an Enemy
8. Unresponsive