Sights & Sounds announce new album ‘No Virtue’

September 2, 2019 James Weaver

SIGHTS & SOUNDS have announced a new album!

Titled No Virtue, the upcoming album from the Canadian alternative rockers is their second effort and is scheduled to be released in October this year.

The band’s first new music in six years finds the band in a different era than their previous records, 2009’s breakout, Devin Townsend produced debut album Monolith and 2013’s Silver Door EP. A lot has happened over the last decade. They’ve toured the world with acts like BRING ME THE HORIZON, ARCHITECTS and BILLY TALENT to name a few.

Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Andrew Neufeld says, “No Virtue is an album we had been working on for quite some time. It’s been a labour of love building these songs over the years. Bringing ideas hummed in a phone or scratched on a guitar to life in a more involved way than we have ever been able to do before. Adding instrumentation and electronic elements into the fold. Panning candy into soundscapes was our goal. We conjured up some of our favourite influences old and modern and printed our take on modern rock with an electronic twist. This is the hardest record I have ever had to make but so gratifying to have finished and finally able to share it with the world. Even though this is our follow up to our first LP Monolith and our EP Silver Door, I feel like this is a new beginning and a fresh start for SIGHTS & SOUNDS. Self-releasing the project with a new approach to the music and to the model of how we release our music.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming record; the title track No Virtue. Speaking about the new song, Neufeld continues, “No Virtue, restores you, the first line of the song is in reference to one trying to make up for their mistakes, trying to find redemption. When it comes down to it, our past will always be remembered but our only focus should be directed by the present and the future. Like it or not, sometimes the dust never settles. We channelled the Gallagher brothers vocally and tried to implore a bit of a Hackers/cyberpunk vibe in the instrumentation, alongside a PRODIGY-style drum beat on this track.”

Listen to No Virtue here: