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PERENNIAL Stream New Single ‘In The Midnight Hour’ Out Now

Connecticut art punk trio PERENNIAL are pleased to reveal their new single ‘In The Midnight Hour’ which is out now on bandcamp. The track is the latest to be taken from their second album In The Midnight Hour, which will be released on digital, CD & cassette on 1st February 2022, with vinyl coming 1st March 2022.

 Commenting on the single, the band said: “Musically, we wanted something with all the ingredients of something you can dance to, but with some thornier angles here and there. We loved the layering of a song that is narratively about how we deal with a sometimes ferocious world, and trying to get by in that world, but with music that is kinetic in response. If the whole album is about the nighttime, we wanted the title track to be both haunted and full of possibility.” Co-produced and engineered by Chris Teti of The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, forthcoming album In The Midnight Hour started out as a sort of conceptual challenge for Perennial: “How to make a punk album that doesn’t operate like a punk album?”

The answer came in part from the lovably daring albums that stuck out of their record collections—We Are Paintermen by The Creation, Horses by Patti Smith, The Shape Of Punk To Come by Refused, Sandinista! by The Clash. Take those guitars and drums, all that electricity and volume, and see just how many shapes you can make with it. The New England post-hardcore three-piece started experimenting with structures, song lengths, instrument combinations; how loud a song could be but also just how quiet a song could be. Where a tambourine could replace a chord; where a bit of drum machine could stand in for a crescendo of guitars.

 The band, who have been writing music for over half a decade together by this point, studied the joyfully bold art that inspired and encouraged them: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Ornette Coleman, Le Tigre, Otis Redding, Eric Dolphy, Stereolab. The album’s lead single, ‘Perennial In A Haunted House’, was released last month and picked up a flurry of support from highly-respected international underground music supporters including Brooklyn Vegan, New Noise Magazine, Post Trash, DSCVRD, VISIONS Magazine, Vanyaland, Small Albums, The Alternative, The Grey Estates and more. 

 In The Midnight Hour is released 1st Feb 2022


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