Celebrated New York City-based rock band The So So Glos (in conjunction with Votiv Records) are excited to announce the September 30th release of Kamikaze, the band’s forthcoming full-length studio album. Recorded with John Reis (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes) and mixed by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Cursive), Kamikaze features some of the Glos’ rawest songwriting yet that includes themes surrounding heartbreak, hurricanes, feminism, climate change, nervous breakdowns and more. There’s a glimpse into one band member’s stay at an inpatient mental rehabilitation center (“Inpatient”), songs about feeling disillusioned by the concept of moral compromise, the dungeon that is the music business (“Fool On the Street”), and songs about sticking to your missions (“Missionary”).
On the forthcoming album, the follow-up to The So So Glos’ critically acclaimed Blowout from 2013, the darks are darker, the lights are lighter, the loud louder and the quiet quieter. Kamikaze is an album that finds the band narrowing its focus, kicking harder and faster, all serving to punctuate their subversive merging of sarcasm with sincerity, and spirituality with social awareness. “Kamikaze is about using our self-imposed weapon,” says The So So Glos frontman Levi Zaru (Aleksander). “Which is music, which is art, which is freedom of expression, which is respect for the individual… all that is a weapon.”
“That concept of self-awareness, acknowledging it in order to combat the problems you see in yourself and the world, is a theme that runs through a lot of our music and our message,” Aleksander continues, reflecting on the path to Kamikaze — a path that has made the album all the more embedded with meaning.
Genre: Punk Rock
Sounds Like: Titus Andronicus, PUP, The Dirty Nil, Desaparecidos, Fucked Up, Wavves, Cloud Nothings and Japandroids
Release date:
15th July 2016 Single – Dancing Industry
30th September 2016 – album – Kamikaze
Upcoming tour dates – October/November 2016 (TBC)
Link to Website: http://www.thesosoglos.nyc
Link to Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sosoglos/
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https://soundcloud.com/votiv/dancingindustry
Management :
Asif Ahmed/Shmanagement! Management(New York)
Stephanie Twaddle/UK Project Manager
stephanieatwaddle@yahoo.com
Mob 07767 233894
Sarah Puttock/Waveform Press (On-line PR)
Sarah@waveformpress.coPress :
James Sherry/Division PR
James@divisionpromotions.com
Booking Agent ; Anna Bewers /United Talent Agency
Anna.Bewers@unitedtalent.com
Label/Votiv (distributed by Caroline International)
Gaby Alvarez/US Project Manager
gaby@votiv.is
Publisher – self published
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Radio Plugger – Rhys Bradley/Martian PR
promo@martianpr.com
Producer – John Reis
Recorded at ;
Big Fish Recording Studio, Encinitas, California
John Reis’ studio
Second Base Studio/Brooklyn
