Industrialized noise rock band Uniform are now streaming the track “Permanent Embrace” from their fifth studio album, “American Standard“. Sacred Bones will be putting out the latter on August 23rd. Vocalist Michael Berdan commented:
“It touches on a facet of the disease [Berdan has long struggled with bulimia nervosa] that I’m incredibly wary of facing. Built on a narrative foundation laid out by author and lyrical collaborator Maggie Siebert, the song revolves around the idea of a person holding a loved one as an emotional hostage.
Seeing perverse beauty in a story about a car crash, the narrator relates the analogy of two automobiles twisted together to that of his last standing relationship. As he has broken down over time, so has the one who continues to stand by him. The object of his manipulative guilt trips remains locked in a hopeless situation, terrified of what he may do to himself if they were to finally leave.
The music reflects the psychic violence of the lyrics, as riffs and rhythms that wouldn’t feel out of place in the Unsane catalog careen into giant synth melodies before collapsing into itself. This is kind of our misguided interpretation of what Faith No More were doing on ‘Angel Dust’, and we hope that our tip of the hat to those masters of madness can hold a candle to their horrific splendor.”
Director Sean Stout oversaw the visuals for the track, commenting:
“Without sounding trite, when we first read Mike’s lyrics to the record our reaction was extremely visceral. They are brutally introspective and beautiful at times and we wanted to try visually to convey that range of emotion in a sequence of single images that unfold narratively and potentially shift their own meaning over time.
Our concept was to intertwine images of an outer world-overgrown, rusting and moving on in its decay-with an inter-world that is largely going through the same process as a result, but is markedly separate as well. We never see one observe or interact with the other, yet they are the same and of the same world.”
08/30 New York City, NY – Bowery Ballroom (“American Standard” release show) (feat. Poison Ruin & Leya)
09/03 Landers, CA – Giant Rock
With World Peace:
09/04 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
09/05 San Francisco, CA – Thee Parkside
09/06 Eugene, OR – John Henry’s
09/07 Seattle, WA – Black Lodge
09/08 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
09/09 Vancouver, BC – The Pearl
09/10 Tacoma, WA – Elks Temple
With Bad Breeding:
Oct 01: Manchester, UK – The White Hotel
Oct 02: Newcastle, UK – The Lubber Fiend
Oct 03: London, UK – Rich Mix
Oct 04: Brussels, BEL – Botanique
Oct 05: Haarlem, NET – Patronaat
Oct 06: Utrecht, NET – De Helling
Oct 08: Hamburg, GER – Hefenklang
Oct 09: Berlin, GER – Zukunft
Oct 10: Warsaw, POL – Hybrydy (feat. A Place To Bury Strangers)
Oct 11: Poznam, POL – 2Progi (feat. A Place To Bury Strangers)
Oct 12: Prague, CZE – Underdogs
Oct 13: Wien, AUT – Chelsea
Oct 15: Zagreb, CRO – Mocvara
Oct 16: Manchester, UK – TPO (feat. The Body & Dis Fig)
Oct 17: Milano, ITA – ARCI Bellezza (feat. The Body & Dis Fig)
Oct 18: Fribourg, SWI – Cafe XXe
Oct 19: Paris, FRA – La Java
