UK post-punks High Vis have announced plans for their next full-length album Blending, due September 30 via recently signed Dais Records.
The quintet preview the record further today with new single "Fever Dream," which is accompanied by a Simon Wellington-directed video that compiles three years' worth of "intimate studio, tour and live footage" documenting the "highs and lows of life as a band."
Guitarist Martin Macnamara said of the track:
"Fever Dream" was written during the hottest days of summer and is about a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year — when it's easy to feel more alive, but the longer, empty days can do bad things to overactive minds. Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasizes the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound.
The Oasis-tinged track follows lead single "Talk for Hours," which arrived back in April and featured vocals from Charlie Manning-Walker of Chubby and the Gang and Jonah Falco of Fucked Up.
The album finds vocalist Graham Sayle delving further into themes of "poverty, class politics, and the challenges of everyday life," as well as "his own emotional landscape," according to a release.
"To me, the lyrics are less selfish," said Sayle. "In the past, I couldn't see past whatever was going on with me. It's about accepting things and being open to conversations and learning to talk to people rather than just thinking that we're all doomed."
He added: "The message of the album is you're not who you're told you are. You're not your class background. Whatever it is, you're not that. Don't resign yourself to thinking you can't be this and you can't be that."
Listen to High Vis's latest single below, where you'll also find the album's tracklisting.
Blending:
1. Talk for Hours
2. 0151
3. Out Cold
4. Blending
5. Trauma Bonds
6. Fever Dream
7. Morality Test
8. Join Hands
9. Shame
The quintet preview the record further today with new single "Fever Dream," which is accompanied by a Simon Wellington-directed video that compiles three years' worth of "intimate studio, tour and live footage" documenting the "highs and lows of life as a band."
Guitarist Martin Macnamara said of the track:
"Fever Dream" was written during the hottest days of summer and is about a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year — when it's easy to feel more alive, but the longer, empty days can do bad things to overactive minds. Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasizes the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound.
The Oasis-tinged track follows lead single "Talk for Hours," which arrived back in April and featured vocals from Charlie Manning-Walker of Chubby and the Gang and Jonah Falco of Fucked Up.
The album finds vocalist Graham Sayle delving further into themes of "poverty, class politics, and the challenges of everyday life," as well as "his own emotional landscape," according to a release.
"To me, the lyrics are less selfish," said Sayle. "In the past, I couldn't see past whatever was going on with me. It's about accepting things and being open to conversations and learning to talk to people rather than just thinking that we're all doomed."
He added: "The message of the album is you're not who you're told you are. You're not your class background. Whatever it is, you're not that. Don't resign yourself to thinking you can't be this and you can't be that."
Listen to High Vis's latest single below, where you'll also find the album's tracklisting.
Blending:
1. Talk for Hours
2. 0151
3. Out Cold
4. Blending
5. Trauma Bonds
6. Fever Dream
7. Morality Test
8. Join Hands
9. Shame