Press To MECO announce new album ‘Transmute’

February 21, 2021 James Weaver

PRESS TO MECO have announced a new album!

Titled Transmute, the upcoming album from the Croydon/Crawley-based band is their third full-length album, the follow-up to 2018’s Here’s To The Fatigue, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Marshall Records.

In between the UK national lockdowns to supress COVID-19, the band managed to fly their producer Machine [LAMB OF GOD, EVERY TIME I DIE, AS IT IS] to the UK and get away to the Cotswolds to pull together a rag tag studio in a 16th century hunting lodge tower, where Lewis Williams and Luke Caley had previously written the album. Joined by new member and long-time friend Jake Crawford [ACODA, DAN LANCASTER] stepping in to fill the role of bassist, the band built a makeshift studio, creating different recording spaces throughout the tower.

Fuelled by an uncertain future and conflicting feelings towards the connectivity and intensity of the modern world, the upcoming album intends to wrestle with the idea of change. Speaking about the upcoming album, drummer/vocalist Lewis Williams says, “it questions whether we can make a significant change for the better, in ourselves, in our relationships and as a society. Positive change can sometimes feel like you’re trying to find a way to turn lead into gold.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Another Day. Speaking about the new song, Williams says, “we wrote Another Day at a time when we weren’t even sure if we wanted to continue being a band. It’s about being at your lowest point and having resentment towards a dream, an ideal or a relationship you probably should have given up on a while ago. It talks about the aversion towards doing the positive things you know will help you and the inclination to continually put those things off.”

Watch the official music video for Another Day here: