Atlanta, GA’s Microwave release their new full-length record, Death Is A Warm Blanket, on Pure Noise Records this Friday. Ahead of the release the band have released a new video for track ‘Mirrors,’ the video, originally premiered on Stereogum, is taken off the upcoming album. Death Is A Warm Blanket finds Microwave taking a daring sonic leap, and “Mirrors” is a standout example of the band’s darker and more aggressive new direction. The song explodes with a stadium-sized riff that’s like nothing else in the band’s catalog, a raging amalgam of ’90s alternative swagger and modern post-hardcore grit, all topped with vocalist/guitarist Nathan Hardy’s undeniable hooks. The musical abandon matches Hardy’s lyrics, an incendiary ode to letting the frustrations of life carry you away and finding happiness in the pandemonium.
Microwave‘s sound isn’t the only thing that’s evolved on Death Is A Warm Blanket. The album finds Hardy documenting the drastic changes in worldview that often come with the harsh realities of adulthood, compounded by unending health problems, financial instability, and the ever-present shadow of today’s tumultuous socio-political climate. The result is an album that finds catharsis in chaos and a strange kind of nihilistic freedom. The anthemic elements of ’90s alternative collide with unbridled post-hardcore aggression and heaviness to create something uniquely exhilarating, honest, angry, apocalyptic, and even fun. Death Is A Warm Blanket might be an album about how the end is near, but it signals an exciting new chapter for Microwave.
Death Is A Warm Blanket track list:
Leather Daddy
Float To The Top
DIAWB
The Brakeman Has Resigned
Hate TKO
Pull
Love’s Will Tear Us Apart
Mirrors
Carry
Part of It
Microwave will be touring heavily in support of Death Is A Warm Blanket, starting with Riot Fest in September before heading to the UK and EU.
You can see the band at the following dates supporting Tiny Moving Parts:
21st September 1865 Southampton
22nd September The Globe Cardiff
24th September Grand Social Dublin
25th September Academy 3 Manchester
26th September Slay Glasgow
27th September Institute 2 Birmingham
28th September o2 Islington Academy London
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