Newly emerged band Better Lovers, featured in Metal Insider’s 2023 year-end list for their EP, announced their highly anticipated debut album. Highly Irresponsible is scheduled to arrive this fall on October 25 via SharpTone Records.
Ahead of the album release, the band has dropped an Eric Richter-produced video for their new single, “A White Horse Covered in Blood.” Highly Irresponsible was recorded this spring with Will Putney.
Guitarist Jordan Buckley comments:
“Playing and hearing our own music makes us want to run through walls. So we made a video where, while playing and hearing our own music, we run through walls. This ain’t rocket surgery! Writing and recording our first full length was slightly more surgical than the EP, but had a similar lack of restraint. I feel more pressure giving a quote for this press release than I felt all winter in Will’s studio. I got to wake up every day and watch the masters perfect their craft. I was a student. It was a playground. Everything was funny. We were reading each other’s minds. Even creating our own language at some points. I didn’t know if I was watching my closest friends write music, or if I was watching music use us to exist. The voice in my head warning me how Highly Irresponsible it was to hop on this bull again was gone. Replaced by big ideas, inside jokes, and a rejuvenated love for helping to write songs that don’t sound like anything else. Humans and animals alike are programmed to do wild things for what they love. Highly Irresponsible things. And we love what we’ve created. We know you will too.”
Greg Puciato adds:
“New album. First full length. It’s a typical thing to say, but we’re excited to start getting this out there. Everyone really brought their best to the album, and brought out the best in each other, and that goes for everyone behind-the-scenes too. I’m honestly just over here happy that I fit the word ‘buddy’ into a song.”
Putney explains:
“Being a member of the band and the producer is actually a real advantage for Better Lovers. We’re so dialed in to exactly what we want to do, and our creative process is so in sync and natural that we rarely hit a wall when we work on music. My role is to capture the energy of the band the way it’s intended to sound: a band firing on all cylinders.”
Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
Track List:
01) Lie Between The Lines
02) Your Misplaced Self
03) A White Horse Covered In Blood
04) Future Myopia
05) Deliver Us From Life
06) Drowning In A Burning World
07) Everything Was Put Here For Me
08) Superman Died Paralyzed
09) At All Times
10) Love As An Act of Rebellion
Feature Image Photo credit: Gabe Becerra
