Basement have announced details of their first body of work since 2018’s ‘Beside Myself’ and shared two new songs.
‘WIRED’ will be released on May 08 via Run For Cover Records, to which the band have returned following their shift to Fueled By Ramen during the ‘Beside Myself’ era.
The artwork looks like this:
And the tracklisting like this:
1. Time Waster
2. WIRED
3. Deadweight
4. Broken By Design
5. Pick Up The Pieces
6. Embrace
7. Sever
8. The Way I Feel
9. Satisfy
10. Head Alight
11. Longshot
12. Summer’s End
The band have also shared two tracks from the album, which demonstrate two different strings on their bow.
First up is the title track, a spiky, angular epic. Pulling on the bright and breezy nature of alt-rock and grunge back in the 90s, whilst still feeling spectacularly modern and fresh, it is a sensationally catchy and thrilling track to umbrella the record.
Vocalist Andrew Fisher had this to say about it, explaining, “‘WIRED’ is about how sometimes it feels that we are set up to feel and behave in certain ways beyond our control. That no matter how hard you try to hide it, eventually it will come out – either by choice or by force. This song was almost lost – a few of us were into it, but it sort of lost traction for a bit. Then one day it cropped back up, and we put it at the forefront of our minds, and it ended up being one of my favourite songs to perform and record.”
And the second is ‘Broken By Design’, which slows things down to a gorgeously glacial pace. Sun-stained, sentimental and stunningly delicate, it’s the polar opposite of the title track yet still quintessentially Basement.
Andrew had this to add, explaining, “Broken By Design’ is about giving something your absolute best and realising it’s destined to fail. Getting to the other side of the situation, looking back and deciding to do everything differently and feeling grateful for the opportunity to grow. We’ve all done a lot of work on getting better at talking to each other as friends and as bandmates. Sometimes that’s an easy distinction – or rather, not a distinction at all. Other times, the lines are blurred and we lose track of who we are and why we do this. When I’m singing, ‘let’s go back to the start’ I mean to when we did this purely for fun. For an excuse to see each other, to travel, to be creative, to express ourselves through music. We all feel so lucky to be in a position to still get to do this and this album and this song in particular, is us trying to go back to how it should be.”
