SeeYouSpaceCowboy have announced a new album, Coup De Grâce. It comes out on April 19 via Pure Noise, and we’ve got an exclusive neon pink vinyl variant up for pre-order now, limited to 250. Get yours in the BV shop while they last.
It was made with veteran producer Matt Squire (Panic! at the Disco’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Taking Back Sunday, Underoath, etc), and it includes recent singles “Chewing The Scenery” and “Rhythm and Rapture” (ft. nothing,nowhere.), plus two new just-released songs and appearances from iRis.EXE, Spiritbox’s Courtney Laplante, and Kim Dracula. Lead vocalist Connie Sgarbossa says:
This album was a chance for us to refine some of the melodic elements we had recently introduced to the band while also playing around with all things and bringing back reinvented version of past parts of our identity. The hope is that we made something that mixes the innate emotion of post hardcore with the cathartic essence of dancing and allure of cabaret/burlesque in a package reflecting the tale of a city on fire and it’s all to tragic individuals and their indulgence and woes.
The record started as a visual idea, because when it came to lyrics, I didn’t know what the fuck to write at first. I’m not a drug addict junkie anymore, so I’m not going to write another album like The Romance Of Affliction—I can’t, and I don’t want to. So my mind wandered to things that I love, like Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels, where there are all these stories interlaced within a city. That led me to think about noir and neo-noir, and then pulp comics and novels from the ’40s and ’50s, which started to make it all come together lyrically and thematically, where each different song can be a different tale of the city.
I hope that people can look at this as a complete expression—not just ‘Oh, this song has a good breakdown’, but at the whole story, the whole setting, the visuals of it all and the way the music all ties in. I hope they see the creativity of that and the risk we’ve taken by embedding Cowboy with more weirdo outside influences that you usually wouldn’t see from a band like us. It’s like a full, unified creative venture, and something we put a lot of work into, so I hope they appreciate the weirdness of it. I feel like a lot of times people hear clean singing and more melody from a heavy band and think they’re selling out. But no—we’re actually technically weirder on this record than we’ve ever been.
The album announcement is accompanied by “Respite For A Tragic Tale,” an iRis.EXE-narrated track that the press release refers to as an “intermission,” and “Silhouettes In Motion.” The latter finds them really leaning into the glossy, melodramatic, half-screamed, half-sung vibes of mid 2000s post-hardcore and putting their own unique spin on it. The two tracks come with a joint video directed by Hannah Gray Hall that very much plays up the noir/cabaret vibes. Check it out below.
The day before the album comes out, SYSC begin their tour supporting Every Time I Die/Dillinger Escape Plan offshoot Better Lovers, alongside Foreign Hands and Greyhaven. They also play Sound and Fury. All dates are listed below.
Pick up our neon pink vinyl variant of the new SYSC album in the BV shop.
Tracklist
1. Allow Us To Set The Scene
2. Subtle Whispers To Take Your Breath Away
3. And The Two Slipped Into Shadows
4. Red Wine And Discontent
5. Lubricant Like Kerosene (ft. Kim Dracula)
6. Respite For A Tragic Tale (ft. iRis.EXE)
7. Silhouettes In Motion
8. To The Dance Floor For Shelter (ft. Courtney Laplante)
9. Rhythm And Rapture (ft. nothing,nowhere.)
10. Sister With A Gun
11. Chewing The Scenery
12. Curtain Call
SeeYouSpaceCowboy — 2024 Tour Dates
with Better Lovers, Foreign Hands, Greyhaven:
4/18 – Indianapolis, IN @ Old National Centre
4/19 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
4/20 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
4/22 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
4/23 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole
4/24 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick
4/29 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
4/30 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
5/2 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
5/3 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazón
5/4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
5/6 – Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room
5/7 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens
5/9 – Winnipeg, MB @ Exchange Event Centre
5/10 – Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
5/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
5/12 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
5/14 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
5/15 – Columbus, OH @ The King of Clubs
5/16 – London, ON @ London Music Hall
7/13-7/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Exposition Park (Sound and Fury Festival)