These New South Whales Announce New LP 'TNSW', Stream "Rotten Sun"

Melbourne punk band These New South Whales have announced the released of their third studio album 'TNSW'.

The follow-up to 2019's I Just Do What God Tells Me To Do, will be out on November 18 via Damaged Music. Pre-order your copy here.

TNSW marks a refined new era for the band, and is comfortably their most sophisticated body of work yet: a 14-track tome of barrelling punk rock that polishes its heavier moments – heavier than ever – with sing-along choruses, sharp arrangements, and plenty of trademark irony and self-awareness. For every ’90s alternative reference, there’s a blast beat; for every big radio moment, a cursed instrumental aside. It’s the same impeccable sleight of hand we’ve come to expect from the band – a throughline, also, for their hit Comedy Central TV show and exalted podcast, What a Great Punk. 

But on TNSW, the songwriting has found another gear, and the energy and defiance that got them here are more pronounced than ever.

New single "Rotten Sun" is inspired by the Ross J. Farrar (Ceremony) poem of the same name, a ready-made anthem that laments the impermanence of all things. 

“I can’t read Ross’s poem without crying,” said frontman Jamie Timony, “so I wanted to regurgitate it in my own way with these lyrics. The sun is slowly eating us all. Everything goes back to the great nothingness from whence it came. And there’s peace in that if we choose.”

Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Rotten Sun", below.

TNSW Tracklisting:

01. Bending at the Knee
02. Rotten Sun
03. That's the Life
04. Under the Pressure
05. Changes
06. Back to You
07. Tartan & Chrome
08. Faceless
09. Signal is Strong
10. Going Outta My Mind
11. Wherever I Am, There I Am
12. Best of the Night
13. Win
14. Reset of the World

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