Post-hardcore rockers letlive have released their first song after three years! “Good mourning, America” is a seething piece of social commentary that brings its message across with a bang! Not only do they address antiquated gender roles, but also racial discrimination, standing up for human rights and police brutality:
“We ain’t so different now are we?”
Said the cop to the killer inside of me
“I’ve heard your story, boy, and that shit gets old
We’ve got the right to take your life, so do just what you’re told”.
Check out the song here:
A truly powerful first single of the upcoming album “If I’m the devil” which is due out on June 10 via Epitaph Records. On their Webseite they write:
“The album is the follow up to letlive.’s critically-lauded 2013 release, The Blackest Beautiful. And the time spent between that and 2016 are defined by the band’s engagement with the griot lineage of Saul Williams and Ta-Nehisi Coates, the deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown, the social pathologies that led to Ferguson, Missouri and divisive redlining policies that are functionally domestic terrorism. And with those ideas letlive. is a band that aims to bring political messages into rock music again. “Our music is very left-leaning. It’s very clear I have a large disdain for the way a lot of systems are working and our society’s incapability to unravel,” front man Jason Butler states.”
A standpoint definitely needed in the contemporary music scene!
Tracklist:
01. – I’ve Learned to Love Myself
02. – Nü Romantics
03. – Good Mourning, America
04. – Who You Are Not
05. – A Weak Ago
06. – Foreign Cab Rides
07. – Reluctantly Dead
08. – Elephant
09. – Another Offensive Song
10. – If I’m the Devil…
11. – Copper Colored Quiet
Fans in Europe can catch the guys live on these dates:
Apr 21 Sound Control Manchester, United Kingdom
Apr 22 The Dome, Tufnell Park London, United Kingdom
Apr 23 The Underworld London, United Kingdom
Apr 27 Hafenklang Hamburg, Germany
Apr 28 MTC Cologne, Germany
