Last week, Japanese post-rock vets MONO announced their twelfth album, OATH, and today they’ve shared its first single, the title track. It’s gorgeous, heavy, orchestral, climactic–all the things that have always made MONO a great band, and it sounds as fresh and vital as they ever have. The band says:
The album OATH is about “time and life”. We wanted to express the “limited time in life” and the “meaning of life”. Our time goes by day by day. What is my goal? What is my purpose? What is the reason I live every day? What can we do? What should we do? We wanted to learn what we were feeling about time and life, what we have lost and found, and the questions and the answers we discovered during both our good and difficult times. We live with a vow that hasn’t changed since we were children.
The album comes out June 14 via Temporary Residence Ltd. (North America, Japan), Pelagic Records (UK/EU) and New Noise (China). Pre-order it here. Check out the new song and its video (by EarthQuakerDevices, directed and edited by Chris Tran) below.