Kevin Bronson on July 29th, 2020

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L.A. post-hardcore stalwarts Touché Amoré are back: Today, the quintet announced they will release their fifth album (and first since 2016), “Lament,” on Oct. 9.

“Limelight” is the first emotional volley from the album, a song about trading the spotlight for the twlight, with frontman Jeremy Bolm shredding vocally and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull joining in for double-barreled catharsis on the final verses. And, surprisingly, the song outros with a touch of pedal steel from guitarist Nick Steinhardt.

“When you’re connected to someone long enough, and you’ve both suffered losses and been there for one another, there’s an understanding and a beauty to the quiet moments,” Bolm says of the song, “There’s a great line in ‘Pulp Fiction’ when Uma Thurman boasts knowing when you’ve found someone really special, when you can just ‘shut the fuck up for a minute, and comfortably share silence.’ I imagined that you’d be shamed for casually omitting that a day or two may go by without realizing you haven’t kissed your partner, but at no point did things feel bad. You’re just in it and it feels like home.”

The band — Bolm, Steinhardt, Clayton Stevens, Tyler Kirby, and Elliot Babin — made the album with producer Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Korn, At the Drive-In). That collaboration was unveiled with last fall’s release of the angular single “Deflector.”

The album will be out via Epitaph Records.

||| Stream: “Limelight”

||| Also: Stream “Deflector”

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