Winnipeg noise institution KEN mode have announced their ninth LP: a follow-up and companion album to last year's NULL — one of Exclaim!'s 50 best albums of 2023.
Enter the VOID on September 22 via Artoffact. It's a direct successor to NULL, with the pair of records designed to both stand alone and as two halves of a whole.
"Both were written and produced at the same time, throughout the pandemic, and recorded by Andrew Schneider in the fall of 2021," frontman Jesse Matthewson explained in a statement. "The two-album arc was written with the intention of being two separate works that could be coupled together to make one full album."
Mastered by Carl Saff, VOID embraces a "decidedly more melancholy and disappointed aesthetic," according to press materials.
The album features recent singles "Painless" and "I Cannot," as well as brand-new track "The Shrike." According to Matthewson, it's the band's version of "a classic, driving rock song. Equal parts Drive Like Jehu and Queens of the Stone Age."
Listen to "The Shrike" below, where you'll also find the VOID tracklist.
VOID:
1. The Shrike
2. Painless
3. These Wires
4. We're Small Enough
5. I Cannot
6. A Reluctance of Being
7. He Was a Good Man, He Was a Taxpayer
8. Not Today, Old Friend
Pre-order VOID.
Enter the VOID on September 22 via Artoffact. It's a direct successor to NULL, with the pair of records designed to both stand alone and as two halves of a whole.
"Both were written and produced at the same time, throughout the pandemic, and recorded by Andrew Schneider in the fall of 2021," frontman Jesse Matthewson explained in a statement. "The two-album arc was written with the intention of being two separate works that could be coupled together to make one full album."
Mastered by Carl Saff, VOID embraces a "decidedly more melancholy and disappointed aesthetic," according to press materials.
The album features recent singles "Painless" and "I Cannot," as well as brand-new track "The Shrike." According to Matthewson, it's the band's version of "a classic, driving rock song. Equal parts Drive Like Jehu and Queens of the Stone Age."
Listen to "The Shrike" below, where you'll also find the VOID tracklist.
VOID:
1. The Shrike
2. Painless
3. These Wires
4. We're Small Enough
5. I Cannot
6. A Reluctance of Being
7. He Was a Good Man, He Was a Taxpayer
8. Not Today, Old Friend
Pre-order VOID.
