LETLIVE. // Drop Brand New Track ‘Good Mourning, America’

Rabble-rousers letlive have unleashed the first track from upcoming album If I’m The Devil…, titled Good Mourning, America. Watch below:

New album If I’m  The Devil… is set for release on 10 June via Epitaph Records. Their fourth album is the much anticipated follow-up to 2013’s The Blackest Beautiful.

According to a press release, “the time spent between that and 2016 are defined by the band’s engagement with the griot lineage of Saul Williams and Ta-Nehisi Coates, the deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown, the social pathologies that led to Ferguson, Missouri and divisive redlining policies that are functionally domestic terrorism. And with those ideas Letlive is a band that aims to bring political messages into rock music again. ‘Our music is very left-leaning. It’s very clear I have a large disdain for the way a lot of systems are working and our society’s incapability to unravel,’ frontman Jason Butler said.

In an interview with Noisey, Jason Butler said the band chose the song after playing it live on tour.

“A couple tours ago we were like, “What should we play live? What track, without any knowledge of it, would hit in a way that would inherently make people bounce?” and we just kind of landed on “Good Mourning, America.” We’ve been playing it live for a couple of months now, so since we’ve been playing it, we have this connection with it, and we feel that introducing it to people and having them react to it the way that they do live—we think that in a recorded setting, it may be just as compelling. So that, and its sonic value. It makes you groove and bop your head, and that’s how we want to reintroduce letlive..”

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If I’m The Devil… Tracklist

1. I’ve Learned To Love Myself
2. Nü Romantics
3. Good Mourning, America
4. Who You Are Not
5. A Weak Ago
6. Foreign Cab Rides
7. Reluctantly Dead
8. Elephant
9. Another Offensive Song
10. If I’m The Devil…
11. Copper Colored Quiet