SOM announce new album ‘The Shape Of Everything’
SOM have announced a new album!
Titled The Shape Of Everything, the upcoming album from the band (featuring members of CONSTANTS, JUNIUS, CASPIAN) is the follow-up to this year’s Awake EP and their cover of BILLIE EILISH’s Everything I Wanted, and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via Pelagic Records.
The upcoming album was produced by Will Benoit himself and it was recorded, mixed and mastered at his own Radar Studio in Connecticut – New England’s first solar-powered recording facility.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, SOM have released a new music video for the first song to be lifted from the upcoming album; Animals. The song’s accompanying music video was directed by Toshadeva Palani [ALCEST, JUNIUS, ANGEL OLSEN].
“About halfway through the writing cycle for our new record, I woke up to an email from our guitar player Joel with an mp3 attached called Animals,” recalls vocalist/guitarist Will Benoit. “He sent it at like 3 or 4 AM, so I knew he was excited to share something that he had obviously stayed up late working on. He was living in Richmond at the time and this was during last year’s George Floyd protests, so he was front row watching monuments getting torn down and experiencing a real cultural shift. Later on he said it was both horrible and inspiring.
I was pretty blown away by the demo. From the first note of that lonely, haunting guitar intro all the way through the heightened tension of the instrumental outro — that was all in his original version, and it felt like lightning in a bottle that I had to dig in on immediately. I remember I was running errands all morning, and in the car I was bouncing back and forth between listening to the demo and recording voice memos of all the vocal melodies on my phone. By 11 AM I had the chorus lyrics and harmonies worked out, by 2 PM I was back in the studio and had all the vocals recorded pretty close to how they are on the album.”
Watch the official music video for Animals here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Moment
2. Animals
3. Center
4. Shape
5. Clocks
6. Wrong
7. Heart Attack
8. Son of Winter
The Shape Of Everything is set for release on January 21st via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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