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NOTHING reveal ‘Vertigo Flowers’ from forthcoming LP

February 25, 2016
Jimmy Hubbard

Jimmy Hubbard

NOTHING
Reveal new track ‘Vertigo Flowers’ and in-studio documentary trailer

Watch documentary trailer
https://youtu.be/Ug3S9T_0Ff8

New album Tired Of Tomorrow due May 13 2016 via Relapse Records

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Philadelphia’s NOTHING have given their sophomore LP, Tired Of Tomorrow, a May 13 release via Relapse Records and today share the first new music from the album, ‘Vertigo Flowers’. The band has also revealed an in-studio trailer for a visceral look at the raw moments recording Tired Of Tomorrow, directed by Don Argott.

Speaking of the track’s inspiration, frontman Domenic Palermo explains, “I was walking to the bank one day with a couple friends and I believed a car full of men was following me around. I walked through the parking lot and into a Walmart and hid there for a couple hours. I was experiencing a new consistent spell of vertigo that I believed may have been a direct result of a recent brain trauma and hospital stay. Everything seemed hazy and for a few weeks I was having a hard time sorting everything out. In the studio the vertigo never really stopped so a lot of the lyrics I had previously wrote for songs I decided to change because whatever was going on in my head I wanted out.”

Stream ‘Vertigo Flowers’ on SoundCloud.

People often wonder why NOTHING are so damn loud. In the case of many artists, the volume stems from a preoccupation with negativity, misanthropy and the human condition. But while NOTHING‘s attitude lines up with these ideas, their personality isn’t one that the band picked from a list of clichés. It’s one moulded by their own experiences, from family troubles and personal tragedy to a string of bad luck that Murphy’s Law would balk at. And that volume, rather than a selling point, is the only way the band has been able to translate the difficulty of real-life events into musical form.

Tired Of Tomorrow is a record born out of a chain of events that forced Palermo to drastically re-think and re-shape his perspective about both life and music. Borrowing from personal memoir and external works alike, NOTHING have worked the deepest influences of their youth and maturation into a package that’s ultimately at its most relevant in the present day.

Tired Of Tomorrow was originally set for release via Collect Records, until the band discovered that the label had been funded by the now-infamous hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, whose roster subsequently dissolved under the weight of the unsettling controversy surrounding him. Though the album was written before the Shkreli debacle, Palermo sees those events to only have strengthened the sentiments and ideas behind Tired Of Tomorrow, rather than confuse its message. It’s a mess to think about, but as always, the contradictions and paradoxes of the kind NOTHING harnesses ultimately lead to the greatest revelations, and the band’s personal and tragic path has nonetheless led NOTHING to produce deeply heartfelt and inspiring music. Whichever way you want to look at it, you can’t deny that NOTHING feels good.

The band’s 2014 debut LP Gulity Of Everything, a record inspired largely by the events surrounding Palermo’s incarceration in 2002 following an aggravated assault charge (to which he pleaded self-defense), garnered widespread critical acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, NPR, Stereogum, SPIN, Noisey, The FADER, Vogue and many others.  Having toured relentlessly across North America and Europe, playing with the likes of DIIV, Merchandise, Torche, Failure, Hum and many more, NOTHING will announce tour dates for 2016 imminently.

May 13th 2016 will see the worldwide release of Tired Of Tomorrow via Relapse Records on CD / LP / Deluxe 2xLP (with two bonus tracks) / Cassette / Digital.

Physical LP pre-Order:  http://bit.ly/tiredoftomorrow
Digital album pre-Order:  www.wearenothing.bandcamp.com
‘Vertigo Flowers’ single pre-order: http://geni.us/VertigoFlowersiT

NOTHING is: Domenic Palermo, Brandon Setta, Kyle Kimball & Nick Bassett.

Track Listing & artwork

  • Fever Queen
  • The Dead Are Dumb
  • Vertigo Flowers
  • ACD (Abcessive Compulsive Disorder)
  • Nineteen Ninety Heaven
  • Curse Of The Sun
  • Eaten By Worms
  • Everyone Is Happy
  • Our Plague
  • Tired Of Tomorrow

 

Praise for Guilty Of Everything:
“An optimistic and hopeful, albeit brutally heavy slice of thundering hard rock.”NME

“Storming.” The Independent

“Superior shoegaze by intense American newcomers” Time Out

“The most complete, satisfying, and original-sounding shoegaze since the scene that celebrated itself burnt out.” Noisey

“A profoundly thoughtful, beautifully crushing wave of droning distortion, the album is epic and stirring, even unnerving at times, but it carves a path toward enlightened serenity.” NPR

“…devastating, beautiful, operatic, and undulating.” SPIN

“Roaring, wall-of-sound guitars arrive with enough force to knock you back a few steps. The sound is vast.” Rolling Stone

“Expansively pretty and brutally fuzzed-out.” Stereogum

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