Alternative Canadian band Selfish Things have announced they are now on an indefinate hiatus, citing their need to focus on “economic stability” due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The confirmation by the band can be read below in a full statement.
“When we started this band, we were young 20 somethings looking to connect with an audience that would respond to us. Over the last 4 years, we’ve found a fanbase that loves us, a team that treats us like family and a world that’s much kinder than we previously assumed. With that being said, we’ve collectively decided to put Selfish Things on hold for an indefinite period of time. COVID-19 hit the world right as we were about to endeavour on our first headlining tour after a relentless schedule in 2019. While this isn’t what we wanted, we collectively feel that focusing on our economic stability is what our families deserve.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for the gifts, the kind words, the snacks, the laughter and the genuine friendships we’ve made. Seeing America (…relentlessly) and the UK was a dream come true, and all of us deeply cherish the moments we spent with all of you.
Keep shining. Keep working. Keep choosing love over hate.
See you on the other side,
– Cam, Alex and Mike”
Selfish Things released their debut record, ‘Logos’ in 2019 via Pure Noise Records.
After some touring, singles and EP’s, the Toronto four-piece collective, Selfish Things have announced their debut full-length record!
‘Logos’ will be released on September 29th 2019 via Pure Noise Records
Here are all the details for the upcoming release.
Artwork
Tracklisting
01.) Flood
02.) Blood (feat. Andy Leo of Crown The Empire)
03.) Rowen
04.) Pride
05.) Synaptic
06.) Torn (feat. Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath)
07.) Hole
08.) Crutch
09.) Drained (feat. William Ryan Key)
10.) Mind
11.) Youth
Hey everyone, apologies this post is coming late, there’s been a few things going on behind the scenes I’ve had to deal with and for that, I’ve had to be home.
But enough of that, let’s get on with the music videos. For those that are new to this weekly post, I find the ten best music videos out there and put them into a list for your viewing pleasure. Up first is Florida deathcore group Bodysnatcher, whom have recently signed with Stay Sick Recordings and have a brutal track in the form of ‘Isolation’.
We’ll take things in a different direction with the next choice in the form of British Singer/ Songwriter Lizzy Farrall whom has returned with her first piece of new music since she released her ‘All I Said Was Never Heard’ EP back in January. The new track explains the topic of controlling and abusive relationships.
Keeping on the Pure Noise Records label is Can’t Swim. This track, ‘Sometimes You Meet The Right People At The Wrong Times’ is off their soon-to-be-released sophomore LP, ‘This Too Won’t Pass’.
Back in Britain, let’s go for a bit of Deaf Havana. This is a neon filled video for ‘Worship’. On the track, frontman James Veck-Gioldi has said: “I wrote it with my brother in a flat in Sheffield and we came up with phonetic sounds before we came up with lyrics, which is probably why the chorus melody is so rhythmic and not typical of how I usually write. It’s one of my favourite tracks on the record and it was the song we wrote the quickest, I think all in all it took us 15 minutes.'”
Now I know Halloween has just passed. Some people are looking forward to Bonfire Night, some are looking forward to Christmas (already) but I had to include this Real Friends video. Warning it’s gory af. Check out ‘Me First’ below.
Stand Atlantic are the band on everyone’s lips at the moment. They’re Aussie favourites who’ve just released their debut record. Part of that record was the title track, the ever brilliant ‘Skinny Dipping’. Which has an even better music video.
‘Flood’ is the brand new track from the band known as ‘Selfish Things’. But the message behind it might be the most important on this weeks list, or possibly one of the most important tracks I’ve posted.
Frontman Alex Biro said: “I wrote ‘Flood’ with WZRD BLD the day after the Las Vegas shooting. My wife was taking a climate change course in university simultaneously and I felt like I needed to find a way to talk about human complacency in the face of destruction beyond gun violence. Our species has this off-putting, innate ability to let things go to shit so long as it doesn’t directly impact us as individuals. The song was finished in under five hours – I’m extremely proud of it and the message contained within.”
Moving onto the UK Rockers As It Is, their concept record The Great Depression’, is continuing its narrative with the video for ‘The Reaper’ feat. Underoath’s Aaron Gillespie. The video sees the narrative of the main character, The Poet moving forward in his narrative.
Speaking on the track and video, guitarist Ben Langford-Biss has said: “‘The Reaper’ is the moment in the record’s narrative where The Poet becomes so desensitised to the concept of death, that death appears and manifests before him, offering an ‘escape’- not in a malicious way, but as a means of release from the pain The Poet is feeling. It was one of the most crucial and challenging moments in the narrative, and it was the last one that came together – lyrically and musically.
Let’s go for a European band for the penultimate video. German Alternative group, Breathe Atlantic and got a brand new single out at the moment, ‘ My Supernova’ and if the video is anything to go by, they’re pyromaniacs. ‘My Supernova’ comes from the band’s upcoming record, ‘Soulmade’ which is the follow up to their 2016 record, “futurestories’.
Now for this last video, we have to go to Halloween. Gerrard Way has been away making comic books, adapting The Umbrella Academy for Netflix and has now just released a new solo single, ‘Baby You’re A Haunted House’.
His last release as a solo artist was wayyy back in 2014 for ‘Hesitant Alien’, unless you count the two unreleased tracks for Record Store Day in 2016. Even if this is just a single release or signs of a full-length release, you’ll love the video for the final entry to this weeks list, ‘Baby You’re A Haunted House’.
With the festival just two months away, anticipation is going up for the 2018 festival, the organisers will be close to revealing who is playing what stages. Now though, the Slam Dunk Acoustic Stage has been revealed. Playing are as follows:
Speak Low If You Speak Love
Four Year Strong Presents: Some Of You Will Like This, Some Of You Won’t
Rob Lynch
Luke Rainsford
PVMNTS
Selfish Things
Cave Town
Almost Anything Music 