California rock band Thrice have shared their newest single ‘Robot Soft Exorcism’ off their upcoming album, Horizons/East. The song grows and lures listeners in with a unique robotic beat that almost seems to be breathing, creating a living rhythm. The track title may sound familiar to those who follow the American author David Dark and his system of horizontal perspective in which he and singer Dustin Kensrue have spoken about in great length.
Horizons/East is available for pre-order now and will be released 17th September digitally and 8th October physically via Epitaph Records. The album exemplifies art as a work of recognition — the human task of perceiving oneself amid details, disasters, and blessings as a relentlessly relational phenomenon among others. In this, Horizons/East is the rare rock album on which interrelatedness is a theme, painting an adventurous and lush landscape mixed by Scott Evans that the band self-produced and recorded at their own New Grass Studio.
With the new album, the band addresses, with candour and courage, the fragile and awkward arrangements that pass for civilization, while inviting us to dwell more knowingly within our own lives. Without surrendering any of the energy and hard edge of their previous albums, they’ve given us a profoundly meditative work, which serves as a musical summons to everyday attentiveness.
Some of the writing even began with open-ended challenges that the band laid on themselves like building a song using the quartal chords they found in much of the jazz they loved, or taking the Fibonacci sequence and turning it into a guitar riff.
Horizons/East conveys a palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility.
Horizons/East is available to preorder now at https://thrice.ffm.to/horizonseast
Horizons/East Tracklist:The Color Of The SkyScavengersBuried In The SunNorthern LightsSummer Set Fire To The RainStill LifeThe DreamerRobot Soft ExorcismDandelion WineUnitive/East
Horizons/East conveys a palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility.
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Formed in 1998, the Orange County-based four-piece is widely regarded as one of the most innovative rock bands of their generation. Featuring frontman Dustin Kensrue, guitarist Teppei Teranishi, bassist Eddie Breckenridge, and drummer Riley Breckenridge.
Thrice will be touring this fall in the U.S. with special guests Touché Amoré, Jim Ward (appearing at select dates only), and Self Defense Family. Tickets and tour information available at www.thrice.net.
