The Flatliners have announced their return and their new album ‘Cold World’, their first in four years.
The record will be released on May 08 via Rude Records/Equal Vision Records/Dine Alone Records, a real worldwide collaboration. It follows on from 2022’s ‘New Ruin’.
The artwork looks like this:
And the tracklisting like this:
1. Stolen Valour
2. Good, You?
3. Inner Peace
4. And They’re Off
5. Only Darkness
6. Whyte Light
7. Into Annihilation
8. Pulpit
9. Turning Signal Rhythm
10. Gush
11. Burn
12. United In Spite
The first taste of the record is out now too, and it shows that there are still few in the game who can pen an anthemic chorus quite like these lads.
It’s ‘Good, You?’, which is already a sensational name for a song, and it’s as rousing, rallying and raucous as it gets. Like choppy waves hitting the shore, with plenty of hearty woah-ohs thrown in to get the blood pumping, it’s punk-rock as it should be. Heartfelt and honest.
And the video does what all bands should do when introducing you to their new music; let it enfold you completely. Stepping into the colours, textures and characters that sit on the album’s artwork, it batters you from all angles.
The band had this to say about it, explaining. “We wanted to pay homage to the greatest era of music videos we have ever known — the one we grew up in. Our aim was to make a ‘90s-style video, portraying the album artwork in all its glory; to bring things back to a time where you could suspend disbelief and just let your eyes and ears devour those next three minutes. With the help of our amazing cast and crew, we achieved just that. A piece of nowstalgia that feels like it has a strong foot in the past, and another firmly planted in the present.”
