Better Lovers have just unveiled the lead single from their upcoming debut album, “Highly Irresponsible“. “A White Horse Covered in Blood” is the first song out the gate from that new opus, which will arrive on October 25th through SharpTone.
While Eric Richter (Evanescence, Knocked Loose) directed the accompanying music video, the group kept it in-house for the album, enlisting their own guitarist Will Putney (also of Fit For An Autopsy, END, etc.) to handle the production duties.
Better Lovers‘ lineup of course included numerous scene veterans alongside Putney, with ex-Every Time I Die guitarist Jordan Buckley, bassist Stephen Micciche and drummer Clayton “Goose” Holyoak all involved, as is vocalist Greg Puciato (The Black Queen, ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan, etc.).
Buckley stated of this clip:
“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!”
As for the album itself, he offered:
“Writing and recording our first full length was slightly more surgical than the EP, but had a similar lack of restraint. 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.”
Puciato added:
“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.”
“Highly Irresponsible” will be available to pre-order through highlyirresponsible.com.
09/21-22 Worcester, MA – The Palladium
09/28 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life
10/10 Sacramento, CA – Aftershock
10/04-04 Birmingham, AL – Sloss Furnaces (‘Furnace Fest‘)
12/14 Buffalo, NY – Buffalo RiverWorks (‘BLissmas‘)
