The Treatment share haunting new single ‘A Fragile Factor’ and reveal ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ album tracklist
The Treatment have shared a brand new tune, ‘A Fragile Factor’, and introduced the tracklist for his or her upcoming album ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’.
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The goth legends shared a snippet of the monitor on Monday (October 7) and introduced that the one could be arriving this week, after teasing it by way of their WhatsApp fan channel and mailing checklist the day before today.
‘A Fragile Factor’ is a lush, haunting monitor that is available in at simply over 4 minutes, beginning with ghostly piano earlier than the bass and drums kick in – with Robert Smith’s vocals on the forefront of all of it. The tune could have been influenced by Smith shedding his mom, father and brother, one thing which he stated in 2019 was the supply of a number of the upcoming album’s “darkness”.
The one comes after the band launched ‘Alone’, the album’s lead single, which grew to become their first new materials since their 2008 album ‘4:13 Dream’, in September.
“‘A Fragile Factor’ is pushed by the difficulties we face in selecting between mutually unique wants and the way we cope with the futile remorse that may observe these decisions,” stated Smith, “nevertheless certain we’re that the fitting decisions have been made… it might typically be very arduous to be the person who you actually have to be.”
‘A Fragile Factor’ was considered one of numerous new tracks The Treatment previewed on their mammoth ‘Reveals Of A Misplaced World’ tour throughout 2022 and 2023. It was one of many new songs showcased at their London present in December 2022 – NME noticed the present, and wrote in a four-star evaluation: “The ticking clock piano rhythms and rolling bass of ‘A Fragile Factor’ accompany the promise that there’s ‘nothing you are able to do to vary the tip’.”
‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ is about to be launched on November 1, and ‘A Fragile Factor’ is the third monitor on the album. Hearken to the monitor right here, and think about the tracklist beneath – it consists of ‘Endsong’, one other tune the band have been teasing during the last couple of weeks. You possibly can pre-order the album here.
The ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ tracklist is:
- ‘Alone’
- ‘And Nothing Is Perpetually’
- ‘A Fragile Factor’
- ‘Warsong’
- ‘Drone:Nodrone’
- ‘I Can By no means Say Goodbye’
- ‘All I Ever Am’
- ‘Endsong’
The album has been a very long time within the making, with Smith saying in a clip posted to the band’s Instagram account final month: “I don’t assume there was actually a type of an official starting to this album as a result of it’s been type of drifting out and in of my life for like an terrible very long time. I imply if I’ve one remorse is that I stated something in any respect about it in 2019 as a result of I actually shouldn’t have performed that.”
He continued: “We had solely simply began creating it. I don’t know, there are numerous factors the place I believed ‘I believe we’re going to make a brand new album’ after which it’s type of the thought, kind of like for numerous causes, different issues have occurred and the thought’s been kind of pushed again. So I’m unsure however there have been particular factors alongside the best way the place I believed ‘Ah, you understand, this, you understand, whether or not or not it’s the primary tune.
“The important thing, I believe, within the historical past of the band is that if I do know what the opening tune is and I do know what the closing tune is, I believe that’s the album midway performed, you understand. That’s the important thing for an album.”
On the BandLab NME Awards 2022, he shared particulars about ‘Songs Of A Misplaced World’ and its sister album. He stated: “So I’ve been engaged on two Treatment albums, and considered one of them is completed,” he added. “Sadly, it’s the second that’s completed. [On the other] I’ve acquired to do 4 vocals, and there are 10 songs on every album. We’re mixing subsequent month on April 1, so I’ve acquired three weeks left.”
When requested in regards to the sound of the upcoming information, Smith revealed: “Effectively the primary Treatment album is relentless doom and gloom. It’s the doomiest factor that we’ve ever performed. The second is upbeat.”
In the meantime, The Treatment will probably be taking part in two reveals for the BBC on the finish of the month, with followers in a position to enter a poll, which closed earlier tonight (October 9), for entry.