Balance and Composure - with you in spirit '2024

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with you in spirit, the fourth Balance and Composure LP, is an arresting,
atmospheric collection of melodic post-punk and towering rock. Due out October 4
on long-time collaborator and Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip’s Memory
Music, it’s the band’s first LP in eight years, and a thrilling
full-length comeback after their four-year hiatus. It thunders and stirs,
dipping between beautiful, crystalline arrangements and punishing, earth-shaking
climaxes; in between all, a gripping, near-physical tension crackles and growls
and grooves, waiting to rip open. 

It’s an intensely self-reflective record for vocalist and guitarist Jon
Simmons, an uprooting and examination of the supports on which a life is built.
Preemptive grief, wrestling with god and faith, familial responsibility,
familial mortality—these are the things Simmons was carrying while
writing this material. They’re also things he was trying, for better and
worse, to avoid— hence the record’s title. 

with you in spirit feels like the work of songwriters reaching new heights,
exploring new depths. Sometimes, the record itself feels like a band grappling
with its own avoidance, its own mortality, and deciding to face these things the
only way they know how. Balance and Composure are with us in spirit, yes, but in
the flesh, too, for now.

Tracklist:
1 restless
2 ain't it sweet
3 any means
4 cross to bear
5 believe the hype
6 lead foot
7 sorrow machine
8 a little of myself
9 closer to god
10 with you in spirit

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