The Armed have announced a new album, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed. The follow-up to 2023’s Perfect Saviors is set for release on August 1 via Sargent House. Today, they’re previewing it with the maximalist cacophony of ‘Well Made Play’, which also opens the LP. Check out its Christopher Gruse-directed video below.
“While we chase distractions and small comforts, we’re pushed into endless competition with each other – often while those with real power take freely, right in front of us,” vocalist Tony Wolski said of the new single and video.
A press release release describes the Armed’s new LP as “still genre-defying, yet overtly pissed.” (To the dismay of a fan who commented “Make The Armed Hardcore Again” under the new video.) It explores Weltschmerz, the German term describing the anguish felt when the harsh realities of the world fall short of our idealized visions of how it should be. “It’s music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine—endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed,” Wolski explained. “It reflects the dissociation required just to exist in that reality.”
The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed Cover Artwork:
The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed Tracklist:
1. Well Made Play
2. Purity Drag
3. Kingbreaker
4. Grace Obscure
5. Broken Mirror ft. Prostitute
6. Sharp Teeth
7. I Steal What I Want
8. Local Millionaire
9. Gave up
10. Heathen
11. A More Perfect Design
