Lament marks a number of milestones for the post-hardcore rockers. “If I’m writing a song or thinking of a drumbeat, I’m subconsciously thinking of something that Elliot Babin would play.” “When you play music with people for this long, you can kind of anticipate their moves,” Steinhardt says. A widescreen view at the constant fragility we face as people, as well as, life-after-jarring-trauma that we all must endure at some time or another.Īfter 10 years together, the band have developed a family-like bond that has enabled them to withstand it all. “But the songs on this record are about what my life’s been like since doing that.” “I sort of look at this record as a companion piece to Stage Four, in the sense that I’m not writing songs about anymore,” Bolm says. A new president takes office, and personal turmoil turns political. Personal relationships bloom, members’ families change either by marriage or fractured bonds. Along with the duty of being empathetic, the band had to deal with their own lives. The band’s critically acclaimed 2016 release, Stage Four, found Bolm mourning and paying tribute to his late mother, which in turn, challenged his emotional bandwidth to converse with an upswell of fans responding with their own stories of grief. “I’ve always stood by the idea that if you’re gonna raise your voice and you’re gonna yell,” Bolm says, “and somebody is kind enough to listen to you do that-then I would not half-ass anything. Yet as much as the band has grown and matured via everything they’ve endured, it’s perhaps equally impressive how they’ve managed to stay true to their core… Its longer, structured songs soar with a ferocious but delicate musicality and powerful, gut-wrenching storytelling that smashes previous heights. A striking contrast to the band in 2020, as their evolution with every step in their oeuvre has lead to this moment. It was a straightforward reflection of a time when the band’s songs rarely surpassed the two-minute mark and hooks were accidental if existent. To the Beat of a Dead Horse, to celebrate the decade gone by. Last year, the Los Angeles quintet re-recorded its 2009 debut. Through 11 songs, Touché Amoré looks back at its past and uses hard-won optimism to point its fans toward light, and love. After over a decade of working through darkness, the band’s gorgeously gruff fifth album, Lament, finds the light at the end of the tunnel. Touché Amoré has been burrowing through angst, alienation, cancer, and death throughout four adored studio albums. Tickets for all dates are on sale now and are available HERE.Jeremy Bolm (vocals) - Nick Steinhardt (guitar) - Clayton Stevens (guitar) – Tyler Kirby (bass) - Elliot Babin (drums) The band will tour in support of the release playing on the following previously announced dates. This is a one time pressing of this deluxe version, limited to 1500 copies. This project took over a year of work and was carefully laid out by Nick Steinhardt with reimagined cover art by Bart Balboa (Birds in Row). Geoff Rickley (Thursday) and Jeff Eaton (Modern Life is War) both stepped up to re-record their guest spots too. We wanted the songs to sound like how we’ve been playing them these last bunch of years. We also just loved the idea of Elliot and Tyler getting to play on this album as they weren’t in the band at the time. You might be asking “Why re-record this album?” Mostly its because we physically couldn’t remix and remaster the 2009 version due to all the files being lost when the hard drive containing them crashed. The original album from 2009, as well as a newly re-recorded version which was recorded by Zach Tuch (engineer on our song “Green”) and mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge). Touché Amoré vocalist Jeremy Bolm shared his thoughts on the release saying: “We always wanted to have a hardbound book version like all of our other albums, so we waited patiently for the anniversary to make this special. A foreword by Geoff Rickley as well as photos (with contributions by Angela Owens, Reid Haithcock, Ryan Alysworth and more), flyers, and even the email of a band member quitting. Limited to 1500 copies, this deluxe version comes with a 148 page book with hyper detail from the genesis of the band up until Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me. Today, Touché Amoré have announced the 10 year anniversary deluxe version of their debut album …To The Beat Of A Dead Horse ( pre-order).
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