Better Lovers, featuring former members of Every Time I Die and The Dillinger Escape Plan, will release its debut album, “Highly Irresponsible,” on Oct. 25, 2024, via SharpTone Records. Pre-orders, including limited-edition vinyl variants and CD, as well as digital pre-saves, are available here.
As a preview of the record, the band has shared “A White Horse Covered in Blood,” along with its Eric Richter-produced video.
Guitarist Jordan Buckley humorously said: “Playing and hearing our own music makes us want to run through walls. So we made a video where, while playing and hearing our own music, we run through walls. This ain’t rocket surgery!”
“Writing and recording our first full length was slightly more surgical than the EP, but had a similar lack of restraint,” Buckley said. “I feel more pressure giving a quote for this press release than I felt all winter in Will’s studio. I got to wake up every day and watch the masters perfect their craft. I was a student. It was a playground. Everything was funny. We were reading each other’s minds. Even creating our own language at some points. I didn’t know if I was watching my closest friends write music, or if I was watching music use us to exist. The voice in my head warning me how ‘Highly Irresponsible’ it was to hop on this bull again was gone. Replaced by big ideas, inside jokes, and a rejuvenated love for helping to write songs that don’t sound like anything else. Humans and animals alike are programmed to do wild things for what they love. ‘Highly Irresponsible’ things. And we love what we’ve created. We know you will too.”
Vocalist Greg Puciato said: “New album. First full-length. It’s a typical thing to say, but we’re excited to start getting this out there. Everyone really brought their best to the album, and brought out the best in each other, and that goes for everyone behind-the-scenes too. I’m honestly just over here happy that I fit the word ‘buddy’ into a song.”
Recorded in spring 2024, “Highly Irresponsible” benefits from the dual role of Will Putney, who, besides being one of the band’s guitarists, brings his production skills to the album.
“Being a member of the band and the producer is actually a real advantage for Better Lovers,” Putney said. “We’re so dialed in to exactly what we want to do, and our creative process is so in sync and natural that we rarely hit a wall when we work on music. My role is to capture the energy of the band the way it’s intended to sound: a band firing on all cylinders.”
“Highly Irresponsible” track list:
1. Lie Between the Lines
2. Your Misplaced Self
3. A White Horse Covered in Blood
4. Future Myopia
5. Deliver Us from Life
6. Drowning in a Burning World
7. Everything Was Put Here for Me
8. Superman Died Paralyzed
9. At All Times
10. Love as an Act of Rebellion
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