US artpunks PERENNIAL have a new single and they're premiering it with Vive Le Rock!
Abarasive floorfiller 'In The Midnight Hour' is the title track from the Connecticut trio's second album which is due out on CD and cassette on 1 February and on vinyl on 1 March.
“Musically, we wanted something with all the ingredients of something you can dance to, but with some thornier angles here and there," they say of the single. ""We loved the layering of a song that is narratively about how we deal with a sometimes ferocious world, and trying to get by in that world, but with music that is kinetic in response. If the whole album is about the nighttime, we wanted the title track to be both haunted and full of possibility.”
For the album, the trio looked upon refreshingly old-school inspirations, in the form of The Clash's Sandinista!, Patti Smith's Horses, The Creation's We Are Paintermen and The Shape Of Punk To Come by Refused. The whole caboodle was licked into shape thanks to the production chops of Chris Teti of local emo stalwarts The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die.
In The Midnight Hour is available to pre-order in various bundles here.