Cult noise-rock purveyors, KEN mode, have announced details of their follow-up to last year’s NULL.
VOID is set for release on September 22 via Artoffact Records, and today the band share their new single, The Shrike, which follows April’s release of I Cannot.
Talking of VOID, singer/guitarist, Jesse Matthewson comments:
“This the companion piece to 2022’s NULL album – both written and produced at the same time throughout the pandemic, and recorded by Andrew Schneider in the fall of 2021. It conveys the overwhelming sadness and disappointment of the rollout of 2021, after the initial crazed shock of 2020. The material demanded a slightly more melancholy feel, and we wanted to explore more melody on the exit from this project.
“The album exposes the emotional core of combating mental illness when one’s fine-tuned coping and management mechanisms have been involuntarily stripped away, and they’re forced to navigate this intensely divided and miserable political climate through a global pandemic. The fury, fear, and confusion, followed by profound sadness and mourning, drags them down while it cuts and pummels, like they’re experiencing every one of their lowest moments over and over again.”
VOID tracklisting:
- The Shrike
- Painless
- These Wires
- We’re Small Enough
- I Cannot
- A Reluctance of Being
- He Was a Good Man, He Was a Taxpayer
- Not Today, Old Frien
VOID is out on September 22 via Artoffact Records. Pre-order on Bandcamp.
