If God made you an animal, your time is now. Better Lovers announced their forthcoming debut LP, Highly Irresponsible. The record is due out on October 25 via SharpTone Records. Preceded by 2023’s God Made Me An Animal EP and 2024 singles “Two Alive Amongst The Dead” and “The Flowering,” the group unleashed their gripping intro into their new album cycle with “A White Horse Covered in Blood.”
The heavy-hitting Greg Puciato (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan) vocals in tandem with Jordan Buckley‘s (ex-Every Time I Die) riffs offer a stunning first taste of what’s to come. The music video does not feature a horse, but rather, a cute, menacing frog.
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Puciato shares of Highly Irresponsible, “Everyone really brought their best to the album, and brought out the best in each other, and that goes for everyone behind-the-scenes too. I’m honestly just over here happy that I fit the word ‘buddy’ into a song.”
Producer and guitarist Will Putney adds, “Being a member of the band and the producer is actually a real advantage for Better Lovers. We’re so dialed into exactly what we want to do, and our creative process is so in sync and natural that we rarely hit a wall when we work on music. My role is to capture the energy of the band the way it’s intended to sound: a band firing on all cylinders.” Check out the new single and music video below.
Additionally, Buckley says of the new record, “I got to wake up every day and watch the masters perfect their craft. I was a student. It was a playground. Everything was funny. We were reading each other’s minds. Even creating our own language at some points.”
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Finally, he shares, “I didn’t know if I was watching my closest friends write music, or if I was watching music use us to exist. The voice in my head warning me how Highly Irresponsible it was to hop on this bull again was gone. Replaced by big ideas, inside jokes, and a rejuvenated love for helping to write songs that don’t sound like anything else. Humans and animals alike are programmed to do wild things for what they love. Highly Irresponsible things. And we love what we’ve created. We know you will too.”
Highly Irresponsible Tracklist:
- Lie Between The Lines
- Your Misplaced Self
- A White Horse Covered In Blood
- Future Myopia
- Deliver Us From Life
- Drowning In A Burning World
- Everything Was Put Here For Me
- Superman Died Paralyzed
- At All Times
- Love As An Act of Rebellion
