Gold-selling hard rockers Of Mice & Men – Aaron Pauley (bass + vocals), Valentino Arteaga (drums), Alan Ashby (guitar), and Phil Manansala (guitar) – are pleased to announce their seventh album Echo, out December 3rd via SharpTone Records.
The album is comprised of the previously issued Timeless and Bloom EPs, along with the new and final Ad Infinitum EP. The EP will be released on vinyl in April 2022. The full Echo album track listing is below.
Pre-order the album digitally here: https://shrptn.co/fightinggravity
The physical pre-order will go live on Friday, October 22nd at the same link.
The band has also shared the video for latest single Fighting Gravity. Check it out below.
Fighting Gravity is about learning to let go, while also recognising the impermanence and shortness of life,” says Pauley.“We think we’re in control of so much, but we’re really not, and that existential dilemma is at the foundation of the human condition.”
“Echo is a snapshot of the last year-and-a-half of our lives,” the band says, summing the album up effectively. “It covers loss and growth, life and impermanence, love, and the infinite – how the most wonderful and most tragic parts of the human experience are deeply intertwined.”
The Southern California-based quartet used their time spent in the 2020 lockdown, which was the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in an incredibly productive way. They recorded all of the music on Echo during that time by working remotely via Zoom and file sharing platforms. They had not been in the same room together since February 2020 at the start of the global shutdown.
The album was entirely self-produced by the band, and mixed and mastered by Pauley. Echo also includes the band’s take on the Crosby, Stills, and Nash track Helplessly Hoping, which closes the release.
As is the case with all previous 2021 music drops, the artwork (pictured below) was designed by the iconic artist Derek Hess.
ECHOalbum track listing:
Timeless
Obsolete
Anchor
Levee
Bloom
Pulling Teeth
Mosaic
Fighting Gravity
Echo
Helplessly Hoping
AD INFINITUMEP track listing:
Mosaic
Fighting Gravity
Echo
Helplessly Hoping
Of Mice & Men will be playing at Download Festival 2022, at Donington Park. Tickets are available HERE.
OF MICE & MEN ARE:
Aaron Pauley — Bass + Vocals
Valentino Arteaga — Drums
Alan Ashby — Guitar
Phil Manansala — Guitar
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