As teased last year, Winnipeg's Propagandhi have been working on a new record — and the serene fruits of their labour have officially been announced today, sharing the news alongside the album's title track.
At Peace arrives May 2 via Epitaph Records. Co-produced by the band and John Paul Peters, the follow-up to 2017's Victory Lap was recorded between Winnipeg's Private Ear Recording and vocalist-guitarist Chris Hannah's basement, dubbed Oceanside Mountainview Studios.
"Speaking for myself, this record might be a snapshot of me deciding whether I'm going to live out the rest of my life as Eckhart Tolle or live out the rest of my life as Ted Kaczynski," Hannah explained in a press release.
He continued, "Everything I'm singing about is still coming from being the same person that wrote and sang our first record How to Clean Everything in 1993. But what we're putting into the songs now, probably reflects more despair than 30 years ago when we had similar perspectives, but with strands of hope and naïveté. Now it's the existential dread of eking out a life worth living in this completely failed society."
Listen to the very relatable title track "At Peace" from the band — adamantly anti-fascist since 1986 — below, where you'll also find the album tracklist.
At Peace:
1. Guiding Lights
2. At Peace
3. Cat Guy
4. No Longer Young
5. Rented P.A.
6. Stargazing
7. God of Avarice
8. Prismatic Spray (The Tinder Date)
9. Benito's Earlier Work
10. Vampires Are Real
11. Fire Season
12. Day by Day
13. Something Needs to Die but Maybe It's Not You