Alexisonfire have announced their new album, Bleed It, and shared lead single and music video for “Push the River” ahead of their Good Things Festival appearances next month.
The Canadian post-hardcore heavyweights will release the record on Friday, March 19th, 2027, via Dine Alone Records. It’s their second album since reuniting in 2015, following 2022’s Otherness.
The band are calling it their most adventurous record yet.
“‘Push The River’ is an anthem for the restless mind,” the band said of the track.
“It is about surrendering to the bedlam of one’s own thoughts and finding peace in the chaos of the everyday task that is living and loving.”
Bleed It started differently from anything the five-piece had done before. George Pettit, Dallas Green, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele and Jordan Hastings went into Toronto’s Revolution Recording with no songs written. Instead, Green brought in what he called “simple instrumental moods”, like drum loops or melody-less electronic pieces, and the band played along to them. The open-ended demo sessions ran for 16 months.
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From there, the band worked with producer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Jim James) at Sonic Ranch, the studio in a pecan orchard in Tornillo, Texas, near the Mexican border.
“We really liked the demos. But Kevin allowed the songs to bloom and become this new thing,” Pettit said.
“It’s obviously a very diverse record but he found a cohesive way to make them blend together.”
Green added: “All five of us make this band. So why not treat the songwriting this way?”
MacNeil sees the new sound as a natural step on from Otherness.
“We’ve always been interested in pushing the band in a lot of different directions, and our influences are all over the place,” he said. “And because we’ve been a band for so long at this point, we’re capable of pulling it off.”
Australian fans will get to see Alexisonfire in action when they head our way for Good Things Festival in December.
TRACKLIST
1. Within Within Within
2. Push the River
3. What’s Left to Know But Love
4. Dogs of Chernobyl
5. Small Eternity
6. Forever Free
7. Congregation
8. Spider’s Dream
9. My Blood Is Yours
10. Holy Mother
11. Tread Lightly, Child
12. Milk
13. Iron Flowers For Suzie
14. Crushing Black
