Pendulum announce first album in 15 years, unleash single “Save the Cat”

Reunited drum and bass act Pendulum have introduced their first new full-length album in 15 years, Inertia, arriving August twenty second. The band additionally provided up the one “Save the Cat.”

Since reuniting, Pendulum have showcased a extra metal-tinged drum and bass sound throughout EPs launched in 2021 and 2023, and “Save the Cat” is one other heavy, aggressive reduce. Singer Rob Swire goes full screamo on the vocals, and Pendulum’s signature breakbeat assault is crushed and gnarled into an electro-industrial squall.

“It was written throughout a interval of self-questioning and frustration,” Swire mentioned of the one in a press launch, which states that the music got here “within the wake of two breakups — one which unraveled slowly over time, and one other that hit with out warning.”

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Added Swire, “Love felt like one thing I didn’t absolutely belief myself with anymore.”

Swire co-produced Inertia alongside Owen Charles, with recording at Pendulum’s London Studio. The album’s 16-song tracklist compiles the eight songs from the aforementioned EPs, plus eight extra tracks. That features beforehand launched collaborative singles resembling “Halo” (that includes Bullet for My Valentine), “Louder Than Phrases” (feat. Hybrid Minds), “Mercy Killing” (feat. Scarlxrd), and “Napalm” (feat. Joey Violence & Brae), plus new collabs with Wargasm (“Cannibal”) and AWOLNATION (“Guiding Lights”).

“I used to be mainly testing how far we may push Pendulum,” Swire mentioned of the band’s heavier new sound. “Seeing what we may get away with. I all the time checked out The Prodigy because the benchmark. They began out as pure rave — breakbeat, hardcore — however they advanced. They turned their very own sound. You don’t even actually affiliate them with breakbeat anymore. They simply are The Prodigy.”

He continued, “It’s the sound of Pendulum discovering themselves once more, and me figuring myself out to a sure extent. Breakups try this — they strip issues down and present you who you’re. I’m simply making an attempt to not turn out to be the man who must undergo one simply to make a report.”

Pendulum have a handful of UK reside dates this summer season, together with a large gig at The Nationwide Bowl in Milton Keynes on August ninth, about two weeks earlier than the album drops. Discover tickets on viagogo.

Under you’ll be able to stream the brand new music “Save the Cat” and see the album artwork/tracklist.

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