Microwave announce new album “Let’s Start Degeneracy” & release ‘Bored Of Being Sad’
American rock band Microwave have announced their fourth full-length record entitled “Let’s Start Degeneracy”, which is set for release on the 26th April 2024 via Pure Noise Records, along with this announcement they have also dropped the music video for single ‘Bored Of Being Sad’. The song brings together the band’s 90s grunge and rock influences and churns them through a modern midwestern emo blender into a heartfelt anthem that is sure to become a new fan favourite. Lyrically the song tackles the struggles of being a band in the music industry and how the “idea of ‘sadness’ has been romanticized instead of being treated as something to resolve.”
Watch the music video for ‘Bored Of Being Sad’ here:
The album “Let’s Start Degeneracy” is said to have it’s title “taken from a conservative politician’s take on drugs in 1970, captures the band’s newfound liberated spirit, and its tracks play by no one’s rules but their own. At various points the Atlanta trio pull together a multitude of influences ranging from ambient pop and R&B to psychedelia and yes, even Sublime.”
The themes of the album are centered around letting go, inspired in part by a vision which came to vocalist/guitarist Nathan Hardy after experiences with ayahuasca in Peru with drummer Timothy “Tito” Pittard. “It’s about letting go of attachments and behaviours that aren’t serving you and trying to shake off your programming and not be motivated by fear and guilt and shame,” says Hardy. “It’s about learning to be happy and take care of yourself.”
Let’s Start Degeneracy Tracklisting
1. Portals
2. Ferrari
3. Circling The Drain
4. Bored of Being Sad
5. Straw Hat
6. LSD
7. Omni
8. Strangers
9. Concertito
10. Huperzine
MICROWAVE and the THE DIRTY NIL have announced a co-headline UK and European tour through April 2024. See dates below.
MICROWAVE & THE DIRTY NIL – HEADLINE TOUR DATES:
7th April 2024 – Effenaar, Eindhoven, NL
8th April 2024 – Point Ephémère, Paris, France
9th April 2024 – MTC, Cologne, GER
10th April 2024 – Feierwerk (Kranhalle), Munich, GER
12th April 2024 – Cassiopeia, Berlin, GER
13th April 2024 – headCRASH, Hamburg, GER
15th April 2024 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
16th April 2024 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK
17th April 2024 – Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
19th April 2024 – Leadmill (Steel Stage), Sheffield, UK
20th April 2024 – Boileroom, Guilford, UK
22nd April 2024 – Fleece, Bristol, UK
23rd April 2024 – Patterns, Brighton, UK
24th April 2024 – Scala, London, UK
Tickets on sale now
HERE (via Microwave)
