Both Robinson and Touché Amoré are known for their trademark intensity, which caused some hesitancy for Bolm. For one, Nick Steinhardt gets to try out his newly learned pedal steel skills on album centerpiece “Limelight.” Four years is also the longest wait between studio albums, but the bandmates found they were still in-sync.Īfter working with Brad Wood for its past two efforts, Touché Amoré sought to break out of the proverbial comfort zone and get the famously demanding Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Korn, At the Drive-In). Lament marks a number of milestones for the post-hardcore rockers.
“If I’m writing a song or thinking of a drumbeat, I’m subconsciously thinking of something that Elliot Babin would play.” “When you play music with people for this long, you can kind of anticipate their moves,” Steinhardt says. A widescreen view at the constant fragility we face as people, as well as, life-after-jarring-trauma that we all must endure at some time or another.Īfter 10 years together, the band have developed a family-like bond that has enabled them to withstand it all. “But the songs on this record are about what my life’s been like since doing that.” “I sort of look at this record as a companion piece to Stage Four, in the sense that I’m not writing songs about anymore,” Bolm says. A new president takes office, and personal turmoil turns political. Personal relationships bloom, members’ families change either by marriage or fractured bonds.
Along with the duty of being empathetic, the band had to deal with their own lives. The band’s critically acclaimed 2016 release, Stage Four, found Bolm mourning and paying tribute to his late mother, which in turn, challenged his emotional bandwidth to converse with an upswell of fans responding with their own stories of grief. “I’ve always stood by the idea that if you’re gonna raise your voice and you’re gonna yell,” Bolm says, “and somebody is kind enough to listen to you do that-then I would not half-ass anything. Yet as much as the band has grown and matured via everything they’ve endured, it’s perhaps equally impressive how they’ve managed to stay true to their core… Its longer, structured songs soar with a ferocious but delicate musicality and powerful, gut-wrenching storytelling that smashes previous heights. A striking contrast to the band in 2020, as their evolution with every step in their oeuvre has lead to this moment. It was a straightforward reflection of a time when the band’s songs rarely surpassed the two-minute mark and hooks were accidental if existent.
To the Beat of a Dead Horse, to celebrate the decade gone by. Last year, the Los Angeles quintet re-recorded its 2009 debut. Through 11 songs, Touché Amoré looks back at its past and uses hard-won optimism to point its fans toward light, and love. After over a decade of working through darkness, the band’s gorgeously gruff fifth album, Lament, finds the light at the end of the tunnel. Touché Amoré has been burrowing through angst, alienation, cancer, and heartbreak throughout four adored studio albums.
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