Off With Their Heads announce new album ‘Be Good’
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS have announced a new album!
Titled Be Good, the upcoming album from the American punks follows 2016’s Won’t Be Missed and is scheduled to be released in August this year.
“All the other records were about moping around and feeling sorry for yourself,” says frontman Ryan Young. “This one is less about feeling sorry for yourself and more about accepting how goddamn miserable you are.” Young and the band members, bassist Robbie Smartwood, guitarist John Polydoros, and new drummer Kyle Manning, holed up at The Hideaway in Minneapolis with additional recording at Pachyderm Studios, a mid-century mansion where NIRVANA recorded In Utero, to make Be Good. Young produced the record himself, and it was the first time he enjoyed the process, or at least tolerated it. “I don’t like how the old records sound, and I hate recording so much,” he says. “You could just hear all the dumb shit on them where I was like, whatever, just let it go, I want to get out of here.”
Much of the self-deprecation that defined the band’s previous work has been adjusted. It was the years spent out of the van, developing a life at home in Chicago, that gave Young his newfound, slightly more positive perspective. “Not being on the road 250 days a year, actually trying to develop some sort of life outside of playing shows and drinking, you’d be surprised what that does,” he says. “The title is an answer to that question of what you’re supposed to do now that the world is so awful and the climate of this stupid country is so shitty. Be good, be loud—that’s sometimes all you can do, I guess, as cheesy as that sounds. Or whatever…everything about me is dumb anyway.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS have released a new music video for the first song to be lifted from the upcoming album; Disappear. The track’s accompanying music video was directed by Jonah Ray and features comedian Kyle Kinane.
Watch the official music video for Disappear here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
1. Disappear
2. Be Good
3. You Will Die
4. No Love
5. Take Me Away
6. Tear Me Apart
7. Trash It
8. Let It All
Once the record is release in August, the band will hit the road in September to promote their new material.
Tour dates are as follows:
31-08 | UK | London | New Cross Inn
01-09 | UK | Stafford | Redrum
03-09 | UK | Glasgow | Audio
04-09 | UK | Manchester | Rebellion
05-09 | UK | Bristol | Exchange
06-09 | BE | Antwerp | Hangar 27
07-09 | DE | Lennestadt | Rockade Festiwoll
08-09 | DE | Hannover | Faust (Mephisto)
10-09 | AT | Linz | STWST
11-09 | AT | Vienna | Arena (3Raum)
12-09 | DE | Nuremberg | Kantine
13-09 | DE | Berlin | Cassiopeia
14-09 | DE | Emsdetten | Detten Rockt
15-09 | DE | Cologne | Helios 37
17-09 | DE | Leipzig | Werk 2
18-09 | DE | Hamburg | Semtex (formerly “Menschenzoo”)
19-09 | NL | Haarlem | Patronaat
20-09 | FR | Paris | Gibus Live
21-09 | CH | Lausanne | Inhumano Fest
22-09 | DE | Trier | Lucky’s Luke
Be Good is set for release on August 16th via Epitaph Records.
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