SOM announce new album ‘Let The Light In’
SOM have announced a new album!
Titled Let The Light In, the upcoming album from the American shoegaze/doom pop band is the follow-up to 2022’s The Shape Of Everything, and is scheduled to be released in March next year, via Pelagic Records.
Adversity became the catalyst for change when, due to unforeseen circumstances, the band’s founding drummer left midway through the album’s writing and recording process. SOM took the remainder of 2023 to reshape and refocus, eventually re-recording most of the album in a new configuration that allowed them to paint in even broader sonic strokes
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Give Blood.
Speaking about the new song, guitarist/vocalist Will Benoit shares, “it’s a sort of post-pandemic reflection on kindness and how we treat one another. The idea came while I was laying on a table actually giving blood. It occurred to me how kind someone would have to be to be doing this during a pandemic. I started to think about how many people were doing awful things at that time, spreading misinformation and just generally being horrible people in society. I continue to want to do everything I can to not be that person, I want to be the kind of person who ‘gives blood’.”
Watch the official music video for Give Blood here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Don’t Look Back
- Let The Light In
- Chemicals
- The Place That I Belong
- Give Blood
- Nightmares
- Under Streetlights
- The Light
Let The Light In is set for release on March 14th via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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