The Drums Announce Fifth Album 'Brutalism', Share First Track Body Chemistry
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Nicholas Moore
The Drums will return with a new album this spring.
The self-care focused 'Brutalism' will arrive on April 5 via ANTI- marking the band's second release as a solo project from Jonny Pierce, following up 2017's 'Abysmal Thoughts'.
Heralded by the energetic first single, Body Chemistry, album number five was co-produced by Pierce and written and recorded between Upstate New York and a studio in Stinson Beach following a painful divorce and a difficult period living solely in Los Angeles.
"For the year prior to writing this song, I had been dealing with an increased feeling of depression. To counter that, I was doing all I could do to try and make myself feel good: implementing all sorts of self-care, going to therapy, eating well, exercising at the gym, taking a step back from partying, and focusing on positive relationships while weeding out the not-so-good ones.
"I still found myself weighed down with anxiety and depression. This song asks the question: Is this dull, sad feeling in my DNA? Is it part of my gene pool? Can it ever be corrected? I had been confronting some of my most stubborn demons, and I came to realize that confronting doesn’t always mean conquering."
Head below to view the album's cover art, tracklist and stream the new song.
1. Pretty Cloud
2. Body Chemistry
3. 626 Bedford Avenue
4. Brutalism
5. Loner
6. I Wanna Go Back
7. Kiss It Away
8. My Jasp
9. Blip Of Joy
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