Basement have confirmed the details for their first new album in eight years, “WIRED“. As you might be aware, the British post-hardcore band have experienced a bit of resurgence in the time since the release of their previous outing, 2018’s “Beside Myself“. Their 2012 track “Covet” became their first gold single to go gold in the United States back in November of 2024.
For this new outing, Basement worked with producer John Congleton (Mannequin Pussy, PUP). Run For Cover will be handling the release of the album on May 08th, while a pair of singles from it, including the title track and “Broken By Design“, are now streaming below. Music videos for both of those cuts have just launched and were directed by Ashley Rommelrath and Tas Wilson respectively.
Basement vocalist Andrew Fisher commented:
“‘WIRED‘ is about how sometimes it feels that we are set up to feel and behave in certain ways beyond our control. That no matter how hard you try to hide it, eventually it will come out – either by choice or by force. This song was almost lost – a few of us were into it, but it sort of lost traction for a bit. Then one day it cropped back up and we put it at the forefront of our minds and it ended up being one of my favourite songs to perform and record.
‘Broken By Design‘ is about giving something your absolute best and realising it’s destined to fail. Getting to the other side of the situation, looking back and deciding to do everything differently and feeling grateful for the opportunity to grow. We’ve all done a lot of work on getting better at talking to each other as friends and as band mates. Sometimes that’s an easy distinction – or rather, not a distinction at all.
Other times, the lines are blurred and we lose track of who we are and why we do this. When I’m singing, ‘let’s go back to the start’ I mean to when we did this purely for fun. For an excuse to see each other, to travel, to be creative, to express ourselves through music. We all feel so lucky to be in a position to still get to do this and this album and this song in particular, is us trying to go back to how it should be.”
“WIRED” track listing:
01 – “Time Waster“
02 – “WIRED“
03 – “Deadweight“
04 – “Broken By Design“
05 – “Pick Up The Pieces“
06 – “Embrace“
07 – “Sever“
08 – “The Way I Feel“
09 – “Satisfy“
10 – “Head Alight“
11 – “Longshot“
12 – “Summer’s End“
Pre-orders are available now via https://basementuk.lnk.to/wired.
06/05 Nurnberg, GER – Rock im Park
06/06 Nurburg, GER – Rock am Ring
With Glare:
06/08 Copenhagen, DEN – Loppen
06/09 Stockholm, SWE – Kollektivet Livet
06/12 Hradec Kralove, CZE – Rock For People
06/14 Poznan, POL – Tama
06/15 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof
06/17 Dusseldorf, AUT – Zakk
Basement:
06/19 Scheesel, GER – Hurricane
06/20 Neuhausen ob Eck, GER – Southside
With Fiddlehead:
06/21 Dresden, GER – Farewell Youth Fest
06/23 Milan, ITA – Magazzini Generali
06/24 Zurich, SWI – Dynamo
06/25 Ysselsteyn, NET – Jera On Air
06/26 Paris, FRA – Mia Mao
06/28 Manchester, UK – Outbreak Fest
Basement:
08/23 London, UK – Victoria Park (feat. Deftones, IDLES, Amyl AndThe Sniffers, etc.)
08/27 Torremolinos, SPA – Canela Party
