First orders will get an extra extremely limited insert signed by the band!
White Lies have today announced details of their forthcoming sixth album, As I Try Not
To Fall Apart, which is released on [PIAS] on Friday February 18th 2022.
Recorded at Sleeper and Assault & Battery studios in West London, the album sees longterm collaborator Ed Buller, who has worked on many of their albums including their
debut To Lose My Life…, return to produce several tracks along with Claudius
Mittendorfer (Weezer, Panic! At The Disco) also producing and mixing the entire album.
Recorded over two studio sessions, As I Try Not To Fall Apart is their most expansive
record to date, taking in explosive rock, electro-pop bangers, prog-inspired invention,
funk-tinged grooves and some of their most indelible hooks yet.
It’s well over a decade since the band’s breakthrough single Death introduced a group for
whom the fragility of human existence has been a constant touchstone. Now in his 30s,
chief lyricist Cave’s outlook on the great unknown has evolved. “I think the side of death
or mortality that I always find interesting is the fact we all know it’s going to happen,” he
says, “and how different people navigate that.”
“We’ll probably never make an album in the way we made this one again,” says Cave. “I
think this could be one of our best” says McVeigh.
White Lies tested their resolve to get
there, but they didn’t fall apart. They have emerged with their most vital collection of
songs in years.
White Lies are: Harry McVeigh (vocals / guitar), Charles Cave (bass) & Jack LawrenceBrown (drums).
