NEW TORCHE ALBUM WILL EITHER HAVE A LOT OF RADIO SONGS OR BE ESPECIALLY APPRECIATED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN A COMMITTED MONOGAMOUS RELATIONSHIP

Here’s an album to be legitimately excited about in a 110% non-sarcastic way: Torche have announced a September 21 release date for their new album, Songs for Singles, via Hydra Head.

I’ve never been as over-the-moon about Torche as some, but only a person I strongly disagree with would ever say they’re  a bad band. And while we don’t have any new music to judge just yet, there is the minimalist album art, which suggests to me that this is going to be a very, very classy record. The font immediately made me think of Faith No More’s Songs to Make Love To, but the absence of humping rhinos means my mother will never ask me, “What the fuck is this?” (It’s also entirely possible that I just have FNM on the mind, since we’re seeing them tomorrow night.)

Hopefully we’ll get to hear some of this bad boy real soon, and we can have a more substantiative conversation about it at that point. In the meantime, get stoked!

-AR