TAKEN FROM NEW ALBUM ‘HOUSE & TRANCE’ OUT 27TH OCTOBER ON PURE NOISE RECORDS.

Long Island, NY – Earlier this month Crime In Stereo announced their first new record in the 13 years, ‘House & Trance’. The album is set for release on 27th October 2023 via Pure Noise Records. Following on from singles ‘Hypernormalisation’ and ‘Books Cannot Be Killed By Fire’, the band have released their third offering from the album, ‘Rogue Wave’. ‘House & Trance’ feels like the natural next step for Crime In Stereo. It was entirely self-produced by the band (outside of it, both Romnes and Cioni are acclaimed and accomplished producers), and flows on so well from their past that it’s almost like the intervening decade and a bit hasn’t happened. This collection of songs not only sound sonically incredible but are riddled with the anguish of life and existence in 2023, both musically and lyrically. They’re not just reflective of these times—the effects of late-stage capitalism and neoliberalism, the encroaching dominance of fascism within the US political system, the increasing alienation and isolation that comes from the purposeful eradication of community by corporate politics—but of the immense human collateral damage that comes with all of that. Yet for all the righteous anger about the big issues that inspired these songs, there’s something very vulnerable and human at their core—namely the struggle to exist in an increasingly dystopian world when the odds are already stacked against you. Interestingly, that’s what inspired the album’s title. Not only does it serve as a double entendre about music (and the band’s refusal to be pigeonholed into the hardcore/post-hardcore scene), but it captures the perseverance that it takes to merely survive in the wretched world humans have made for themselves. Album, then, continues that perennial conversation, as it simultaneously continues the band’s own story. Yet while it was born from bleakness, from hopelessness, from brushes with death and out of a failing society and country, its very existence rages against everything that made it, offering a significant sense of hope and meaning, of beauty and salvation, of a future not yet written off.

‘House & Trance’ Tracklisting:

1. Pensioner
2. Superyacht Ecopark
3. Rogue Wave
4. Hypernormalisation
5. We Can Build You
6. Goliathette
7. Books Cannot Be Killed By Fire
8. House / Trance
9. Autotourniquet
10. Skells