The title track to Converge‘s long-awaited new studio album “Love Is Not Enough” has landed online. Its arrival on digital service providers follows an initial airing on SiriusXM this week. Given that the last traditional Converge album, “The Dusk In Us“, arrived back in 2017, it’s safe to say that fans have eagerly been awaiting this new outing. A music video for this lead single was shot with director George Gallardo Kattah and is now available below.
Per vocalist Jacob Bannon, this new track, “…explores what it means to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. A reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future— if we can fend off the scavengers.” As for the vision for the album itself, he shared:
“I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre,” Bannon says. “Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.”
He went on to add:
“It does a thing that no other Converge record does—it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
“Love Is Not Enough” track listing:
01 – “Love Is Not Enough“
02 – “Bad Faith“
03 – “Distract And Divide“
04 – “To Feel Something“
05 – “Beyond Repair“
06 – “Amon Amok“
07 – “Force Meets Presence“
08 – “Gilded Cage“
09 – “Make Me Forget You“
10 – “We Were Never The Same“
Epitaph have announced a February 13th release date for this new record. For pre-orders head to converge.ffm.to/loveisnotenough and convergecult.com.
