Your Favorite Enemies
Between Illness and Migration
New album to be released 3rd November.
Your Favorite Enemies release their new album ‘Between Illness and Migration’ on 3rd November.
The first song (and video) to be released from the album, ‘Where Did We Lose Each Other’, is a perfect foretaste of the band’s intense and powerful song writing style. The song combines the band’s coarse guitar tones and vacillated noise scenery with lead vocalist Alex Foster’s poetic yet appealingly abrasive vocal style, which comes together to exemplify the dramatic structuring, and mutable dynamics that Your Favorite Enemies infuse into their music.
Watch the video here:
Your Favorite Enemies are six chaotic individuals who collectively let go of their own self-depraved illusionary make-believes to surrender to the inner noises of moments they communally turned into songs, thus giving birth to a musical journey defined by an assumed incarnation of epiphanic catastrophes, raging contemplation and transfiguring uplift.
The band take influence from artists such as Sonic Youth, Fugazi, My Bloody Valentine and Mars Volta, and their unique and eclectic sound brings together fanatics from various musical backgrounds into a defining communion of high level noise, post-punk, psych, shoegaze and prog rock. From reflections about the nature of letting go, redemption and mercifulness to rumination about faith, forgiveness, grace and absolution, the album displays the bands most personal, honest and emotionally visceral work yet.
The new album has been mixed by the estimable John Agnello (Sonic youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Kills), and was recorded and produced in the band’s own studio (a former catholic church). It’s clear that working with such an influential figure has allowed the band to find the perfect balance between the stormy dynamic intensity to its furious tones and the fragile crisp of vulnerable sparks to the whispering density of its innermost form of musing confessions.
Upon the release of the Canadian version of the album, ‘Between Illness and Migration’ rose to #2 on iTunes on the day of its release, and was also #6 top-selling artists in Canadian charts. This comes as no surprise when the band’s previous releases have sold as many as 60,000 physical copies.
Your Favorite Enemies are also set to embark on a EU/UK Tour from 3rd November – 24th November 2014, with seminal post-rockers ‘…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead’. The tour features four UK dates with the bands visiting Glasgow, Coventry, Manchester, and London.
Kerrang! call the band “Canada’s best kept secret”, and this album is evidence that you should be playing close attention to Your Favorite Enemies, as this won’t be the case for long.
UK TOUR DATES:
14th Nov - Glasgow, UK - The Art School
15th Nov - Coventry, UK - Kasbah
16th Nov - Manchester, UK - Ruby Lounge
17th Nov - London, UK - Dingwalls