Lagwagon announce new album ‘Railer’

July 29, 2019 James Weaver

LAGWAGON have announced a new album!

Titled Railer, the upcoming album from the longstanding Californian punks is scheduled to be released in October this year!

The upcoming album was produced by Cameron Webb (ALKALINE TRIO, MOTORHEAD), accurately and honestly reflects who LAGWAGON are in 2019, both lyrically and musically. While it sounds like these songs could have been written by a band 20 years younger, Railer, as a collection, presents itself as youthful but jaded, frantic but exhausted, visceral yet cerebral.

As frontman Joey Cape explains, Railer is “a funny word from childhood that means ‘silly bad’, like lame” and it captures the sense of throwback that flows through the new album’s 12 songs. That idea of looking to the past was inspired after Cape came up with Bubble, Railer‘s’ first single as well as first song he wrote for the album, and he then just took that idea and ran with it.

Speaking about the new song he says, “the idea of that song was to embrace and appreciate what you have. I really specifically tried to make it feel and sound like an old LAGWAGON song, so I borrowed a lot from early records for it. And then from there, I just kept thinking that the rules have to be that Railer feels like something LAGWAGON might have done in the old days. I wanted to see what would happen if I didn’t overthink things and I just tried to write a record as quickly as possible without losing the quality I expect from myself as a songwriter.”

Listen to Bubble here:

Continuing to speak about the album, Cape continues, “there’s only so much one person or a group of people can do before they start to develop characteristics that become common to them and I think you have to be comfortable with that. And I am. I like my band and what we’ve done and I’m okay with the fact that we have our strengths and we have our limitations. I know what it is that we do well and if we stay true to that, there’s something that comes out of that that is truly original, because you’re being true to who you really are.”

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

Track List:

1. Stealing Light
2. Surviving California
3. Jini
4. Parable
5. Dangerous Animal
6. Bubble
7. The Suffering
8. Dark Matter
9. Fan Fiction
10. Pray For Them
11. Auf Wiedersehen
12. Faithfully