Legendary independent New York-based rock label Equal Vision Records and Slothrust are excited to announce the September 18 release of What They Grow in the Garden, the brand new studio album from the acclaimed LA-based alt-rock veterans. Produced by the band and Jordan Witzigreuter (The Ready Set), What They Grow in the Garden is the result of a band pushing itself to the absolute limit: the riffs hit harder, the hooks are catchier, the stylistic shifts even more unexpected. Billed as “dystopian theatre rock,” the album’s 12 tracks make good on that promise — a band once compared to Nirvana now sounds more like a grungier Queen, or the best album Muse never made.
Lyrically, the album is also an examination of the hive mind that explores what it means to be human and live in a system designed to exploit our perceived weaknesses by means of capitalism. The band wanted to explore old archetypal places like “the garden” and “the lake” through an allegorical and surrealist lens that encourages listeners to look inward for their big truths instead of at their phones. “We really want people to take away a message from this album of self-liberation amidst the flickers of seemingly inescapable dread,” Leah Wellbaum and Will Gorin of Slothrust said. “Despite the permeating blue light of the external world, it is still possible to find your freedom and identify your core truths if you go within.”
Watch the lyric video for ‘Ring the Bell’ and stream ‘00101001’ below, two brand new singles from What They Grow in the Garden that reflect these themes and overall mission statement for the album.
What They Grow In The Garden:
- Dissolve the Delusion
- Burn the Deck
- Smile
- Ring the Bell
- Twisted Paradise
- Hearst Castle
- 00101001
- What a Night
- Absolute Power
- Keep us Thirsty
- The Lake
- Dystopian Cemetery
