Planes Mistaken For Stars vocalist Gared O’Donnell passed away from stage III esophageal cancer in 2021, but what we didn’t know at the time was that Gared wrote and recorded one last album with Planes amid his cancer treatment and global lockdown. Titled Do You Still Love Me?, it’s the band’s first album since 2016’s Prey and it arrives November 1 via Deathwish (pre-order).
The album was recorded by Sanford Parker in Chicago, and mixed after Gared passed. First single “Fix Me,” which is out now, finds Planes and Gared sounding as gritty, gravelly, and uniquely great as they ever have. And maybe it’s just knowing the context, but it sounds so lively yet so haunted by Gared’s ghost all at once. Listen below.
For more Planes, their sophomore album Up In Them Guts turns 20 this year and you can read about it in our list of the 15 best emo & post-hardcore albums of 2004.
Tracklist
Matthew is Dead
Fix Me
Further
The Arrow
Modern Logic
Punch the Gauge
Do You Still Love Me? No. 1
Run Rabbit Run
Peace
Put Your Heart on the Fire
The Calming
In Hell
Do You Still Love Me? No. 2