BIG | BRAVE have announced their new full-length album, ‘Vital,’ which comes out on CD/digital formats on April 23rd and on vinyl on July 9th through Southern Lord.
Regarding the upcoming LP, a press release reads, “The recording features the core trio Robin Wattie, Mathieu Ball and Tasy Hudson, for their most collaborative record they’ve made so far.”
The band themselves add, “Having cut our teeth in very different musical backgrounds respectively, our intuitions vary, which has an interesting effect on our individual approaches and ears. This album involves what it means navigating the outside world in a racialized body and what it does to the psyche as a whole while exploring individual worth within this reality.”
The presser continues, “Lyrically, VITAL explores the weight of race and gender, endurance and navigating other people’s behaviors, observation and protest.”
For a taste of ‘Vital,’ check out new video single “Half Breed” below. Speaking on the clip, the band states, “The action of shoveling dirt onto the person, also acts a way to discredit, shame and discriminate the individual. With the victim (on screen), being painfully covered with dirt by the perpetrator (off screen), all we have to witness is the damage done and left behind. We are aware of what is happening, what has happened, but the source is kept anonymous and can easily be missed and overlooked.”
‘Vital’ track list:
1. Abating The Incarnation Of Matter
2. Half Breed
3. Wited. Still And All…
4. Of This Ilk
5. Vital
Artist photo by Mathieu Ball
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