David Balfe has announced the second For Those I Love LP: Carving the Stone arrives August 8 via September Recordings. The follow-up to the project’s 2021 self-titled debut features the early single ‘Of the Sorrows’, as well as a gripping new song called ‘No Scheme’. Check it out along with a live performance video below.
“No Scheme is the spiritual successor to Top Scheme, the only track on the new album with a direct link to the old,” Balfe explained in a statement. “Anchored by the same chaos as Top Scheme, No Scheme trades some of its anger for despondency, it’s rage for reflection, while never fully leaving that original fire behind. Like much of the album it comes from, whenever it points the finger outwardly, it points it back inwardly too. Hypocrisy, complacency, and culpability are all present, but so too is a search for justice or meaning in an increasingly confusing time. A great deal has changed since I wrote it, but I feel as committed as ever to sharing it with you all.”
About the album as a whole, Balfe remarked, “This was partly my emotional response to what feels like a ‘cultural death,’ a strangling of a city and a generation.”
Carving the Stone Cover Artwork:
Carving the Stone Tracklist:
1. Carving The Stone
2. No Quiet
3. No Scheme
4. The Ox / The Afters
5. Civic
6. Mirror
7. This Is Not The Place I Belong
8. Of The Sorrows
9. I Came Back To See The Stone Had Moved
