Cartel have announced the details of their first full length album since 2013, and they are picking up right where they left off.
Titled ‘Learning How To Cope’, it will be released on September 18 via Field Day Records.
Vocalist Will Pugh had this to say about the contents of the record:
“This music saved me. It helped me reconnect with empathy, with community and with the idea that everybody belongs. That ethos – honesty, openness, and taking care of your people – is what this record is built on. It feels different, but it still feels like Cartel.”
And the artwork is looking a little something like this:
The band have also shared two new tracks that are set to appear on the album.
The first is ‘Shirts & Skins, a wonderfully heavy piece of modern pop-punk that probes at the abject state of things on the streets right now, written in the wake of the ICE raids took place in Minneapolis.
Will had this to add about the subject matter:
“We’re way past the point of being able to sit back and just provide the safe space that people can go andget away from everything. Society has been doing that long enough and not having difficult conversations – and that’s just kind of over. If you’re not going to say something now, when are you ever going to fucking say something?”
And the second is ‘Deadbeat Drag’, a quintessential piece of damning storytelling that leaves the claws firmly out.
The band are also set to support State Champs across the US later this year. Here are all the dates:
NOVEMBER
05 – ALLENTOWN Archer Music Hall
06 – BUFFALO Riverworks
07 – INDIANAPOLIS Deluxe @ Old National Centre
08 – ST. LOUIS The Pageant
10 – DALLAS Echo Lounge
12 – PHOENIX The Van Buren
13 – LAS VEGAS Brooklyn Bowl
14 – RIVERSIDE Riverside Municipal Auditorium
15 – SACRAMENTO Ace of Spades
17 – PORTLAND Roseland Theater
18 – SEATTLE The Showboat
20 – SALT LAKE CITY Rockwell at The Complex
21 – DENVER Summit Music Hall
23 – DAVENPORT Capitol Theatre
24 – LOUISVILLE Mercury Ballroom
25 – COLUMBUS Newport Music Hall
27 – SAYREVILLE Starland Ballroom
29 – BALTIMORE Nevermore Hall
DECEMBER
01 – RICHMOND The National
03 – NASHVILLE Brooklyn Bowl
05 – ST. PETERSBURG Jannus Live
06 – ORLANDO House of Blues
