FACS share "Slogan" from new album Still Life In Decay, out 7th April on Trouble in Mind Records

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Share new single, "Slogan" - listen here

Taken from Still Life In Decay
Due 7th April via Trouble In Mind Records

Chicago trio FACS have been perfecting their brand of intense, cathartic post-punk over the course of four ever-evolving albums.  Beginning with 2018’s Negative Houses thru 2021’s landmark Present Tense, the trio digs deep into the gaping maw of a black hole and pulls back whatever debris they can grasp onto. Their newest LP Still Life In Decay, which arrives April 7th, comes as an addendum to their last album— a “post-event review,” if you will.
 

New single "Slogan" is about "watching someone change" - change being the thematic thread throughout the whole album.

The band's Brian Case explains: "change...how that's seen from different people's perspectives. 'Still Life In Decay' is about that kind of change, realizing that relationships exist in different ways for individuals in shared situations, and how you navigate that as a unit. We knew when we were making this record that Alianna was going to be stepping away from the band, which of course heavily informed the sessions. Filled with deep understanding and love, but still those insecurities and feelings of loss, or an end of something. Despite that, 'Still Life In Decay' feels more like a beginning, it's tense and vulnerable in a way we haven't presented ourselves before. I'm so proud of what the three of us did with this album."

FACS - Slogan
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRGSF-ylo_U

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/troubleinmind/facs-slogan-trouble-in-mind-records/s-Is3eY1rO3Qr

Your eyes
Like mine
You found
Liberation
from doubt
And other things
Suspended thought is identity
Empathy as a slogan
I had it in
The palm of my hand

While FACS are a heavy band, they don’t necessarily feel like one— Case’s fluttering, melodic guitar lines are buoyed by the insistent, underlying pulse of an expert rhythm section. Bassist Alianna Kalaba, who stepped in for founding member Jonathan Van Herik in 2018, makes her amicable last stand here with the group. Alongside drummer Noah Leger, they dance and twist around each other like a double helix, forming the DNA of what makes FACS so special. Collectively they approach rhythm from outside the groove as opposed to inside it, creating a lattice where Case weaves guitar lines like creeping vines, making the moments on Still Life In Decay where the band locks in even more powerful. 

FACS have never been more solidified as a unit, and Still Life In Decay is a decidedly focused effort. The apocalyptic chaos that defined their previous album is waved away in favor of an examination of events with cumbrous clarity.  Recorded by Sanford Parker at Chicago's esteemed Electrical Audio, Still Life In Decay will be available 7th April 2023 from Trouble In Mind Records.

Preorder:
https://wearefacs.bandcamp.com/album/still-life-in-decay


Tracklisting:
1. Constellation
2. When You Say
3. Slogan
4. Class Spectre
5. Still Life
6. New Flag


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