Starbenders announce new album ‘Take Back the Night’

June 15, 2023 James Weaver

STARBENDERS have announced a new album!

Titled Take Back The Night, the upcoming album from the Atlanta-based glam punk rock band is the follow-up to 2020’s Love Potions, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Sumerian Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Kimi Shelter says, “Take Back The Night was born in the wake of the band’s most challenging obstacles to date. From life threatening necrotising bacterial pneumonia to addiction to two years of the world in limbo, it felt like the punches kept coming and coming. The band made a conscious decision that they were going to practice radical acceptance and stick together no matter what. The frustration and worries we choked down on the daily were transmuted into the compositions and sounds of the new record. All the triumph over serious obstacles made the rocket fuel that propelled their most cohesive and aggressive record ever.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, STARBENDERS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; We’re Not Okay. The new song is the fifth single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Sex, The Game, Blood Moon, If You Need It and Seven White Horses.

Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Shelter says, “when I initially wrote We’re Not OK, I was thinking about the struggle I’ve had with spirituality. Sometimes I feel like a poser when I try to tap into faith. That small voice going, ‘you really don’t believe’, ‘you know it’s not going to be any different’… and on and on. I brought my mentor and dear friend, James Hall, in to co-write. He was able to bring more light to that feeling of hopelessness that we all feel. What’s important is coming together to be ‘less not okay’ and riding out the storm. The answering of prayers can be very subtle, we just have to keep our minds open to the possibility of things changing and working themselves out. We tapped into this further with the music video. We also had the honour of working with Gilbert Trejo. He immediately picked up on the sentiment of the song and wanted to show us floating through Hollywood, going through it. The band is depicted as eventually finding one another and carrying on along the walk of fame. Definitely deep rock n’ roll poetry.”

Watch the official music video for We’re Not Ok here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. The Game
2. Sex
3. Body Talk
4. We’re Not Ok
5. Cherry Wine
6. Seven White Horses
7. The End is Near
8. Blood Moon
9. If You Need It
10. Marianne
11. Poison
12. Midnight
13. Say You Will