Scottish alternative metallers Love Is Noise have a new four-song EP headed for an October 09th release date. That effort has been titled “The space between happiness and heartache.” and features four new tracks. The opening cut, “smile.“, has just received its online premiere as the lead single and finds Casper Frisk of PALESKIN guesting. Per a press release, this new conceptual effort is:
‘Built around an unnamed character who constructs an artificial world as a way of escaping the reality of how they truly feel, the EP explores depression, anxiety, isolation, and low self-worth through a world where nothing is quite what it seems.’
Vocalist Cameon Humphrey elaborated:
“The more we wrote this record, the more we realised it wasn’t really about one person’s story — it’s about how people create versions of themselves just to get through modern life. We wanted to make something that felt real. Not polished to the point where it loses its humanity, but honest about the things that people don’t always want to talk about.
The character has built this entire world to escape how they actually feel, but we never tell you exactly why. That’s really important to us. We don’t want to give the listener a beginning, middle, and end and tell them what it means. We want people to find themselves somewhere inside it.”
As for “smile.“, Humphrey shared:
“‘smile.‘ is a pursuit of happiness. An anthem for the lovers. A celebration of those who put others first. This song is a light in the dark when you forget who you are. You are worthy to someone out there, and don’t ever forget it.”
Speaking further on the EP itself, which Humphrey also drummed on and co-produced, he stated:
“When we look back at ‘To Live In A Different Way’, we can hear where we were trying to get to. This feels like we’ve finally stopped worrying about what Love Is Noise is supposed to sound like. We had the confidence to do everything ourselves this time. Alex and I produced it, I played all the drums, Sam and Alex are properly embedded in the guitars and bass, and Alex has a much bigger vocal presence. It feels like the three of us are completely inside this record.”
Humphrey went on to say of the important of keeping the effort ‘human’:
“Everything about this project had to feel human. There’s so much AI-generated stuff everywhere now, and we didn’t want to contribute to that. The artwork is made by an actual artist. Sam built the website. We produced the music ourselves. Every part of it comes from people who are actually in the band. That’s kind of the irony of the whole EP. It’s about someone creating a fake world because they can’t deal with reality, while we’re making something as real as we possibly can.”
“The space between happiness and heartache.” track listing:
01 – “smile.” (feat. PALESKIN)
02 – “the rain that follows me.“
03 – “crying in the dark.“
04 – “fury.“
