Forth Wanderers made a surprise return two days ago with “To Know Me/To Love Me,” their first new song in seven years, and now they’ve announced a new album, The Longer This Goes On, due July 18 via Sub Pop (pre-order). The band’s new bio sheds more light on their return:
The road to The Longer This Goes On began in a Brooklyn coffee shop during the summer of 2021. There, [guitarist Ben] Guterl and [vocalist Mom] Trilling met for the first time since Forth Wanderers’ dissolution in 2018. “We talked for four or five hours about everything under the sun,” Trilling explained. “At the tail end of our conversation, Ben asked if I wanted to try making music again.” The question took her by surprise, but Trilling agreed. The three years they’d been apart had deflated some of the pressures the band felt when they were touring their previous music: “It felt like there wasn’t as much riding on the band,” Guterl added. “We all felt free to mess around and have fun.” Guterl remembers the reassurance he felt when he reconnected to play music with bassist Noah Schifrin, guitarist Duke Greene, and drummer Zach Lorelli: “It felt the best it had between us since we had started the band. It felt like we were just in high school again.”
The grungy, slow-burning “To Know Me/To Love Me” opens the album, and The Longer This Goes On also includes the just-released “7 Months,” a catchier, punchier song that feels more like A Single. It comes with a video (co-directed by Elisabeth and Noah Yu Schifrin) and you can check that out below.
Tracklist
1. To Know Me/To Love Me
2. Call You Back
3. Honey
4. 7 Months
5. Spit
6. Springboard
7. Make Me
8. Barnard
9. Bluff
10. Don’t Go Looking