TORONTO PUNKS THE FLATINERS SHARE NEW SINGLE "PULPIT"
Equal Vision Records/Civilians and The Flatliners are excited to present "Pulpit", the latest single to be lifted from the Friday 8th May release of Cold World, the longstanding, Juno-nominated Canadian punk quartet’s brand new studio album. "‘Pulpit’ is a musical excavation of what always feels to be looming in the dark corners around us," the band says. "Our palpable mortality, the deception of belief, and the beauty of decay, all wrapped up into a twist and turn for two-and-a-half minutes that will just keep you guessing."
While 2022's New Ruin was preoccupied with the inherited damages of the last generation, the forthcoming Cold World from The Flatliners sees that legacy for what it is — a ghost, a fading memory. If New Ruin was about the rage of realisation, now we're damned with the aftermath of clarity. Welcome to the future. Pre-order, pre-save and pre-add Cold World here.
Maybe the greatest resistance that any artist can offer today is the radical act of stability — the same four people, friends since they were kids, playing music together because they have been compelled to for nearly their entire lives, 24 years and counting.
Cold World, the brand new studio album from Canadian punk veterans The Flatliners, is the sound of a band free to make what they want with the people they want to make it with, to try to carve out some space to demonstrate a different way of doing things — a space where bands share credit equally, where friends grow and work together over decades, a space where stability is the reward for sticking to your vision.
That vision has evolved into a consistent confidence that gives The Flatliners the freedom to experiment with the edges of their sound while grounded by each other, locking out the decay of the world outside. The band fought through the fire of their last record only to find a landscape of debasement and erasure, and an increasingly cold world for all of us to live in.
The textures of Cold World itself are anything but comfortable and familiar. The band’s airtight foundation of bassist Jon Darbey and drummer Paul Ramirez continues to drive with a learned, casual urgency on rippers like "Inner Peace" and "Burn," while Chris Cresswell and Scott Brigham deploy the controlled chaos of their shredding two-guitar attack, enveloping the listener on songs like "Pulpit" and "Whyte Light." As the album ends, we may be drifting out into darkness. But if we’re lucky, we can choose who we drift with.
Their new album, Cold World will be available Friday 8 May via Equal Vision/Civilians. "Inner Peace" and "Good, You?" are out now and streaming everywhere via Equal Visions/Civilians.
