SeeYouSpaceCowboy have announced a new album, Coup De Grâce, arriving April 19th. The post-hardcore band has also unveiled a double video for the singles “Respite for a Tragic Tale” and “Silhouettes in Motion.”
The dual-single drop works as a one-two punch: “Respite for a Tragic Tale” sets things up as an intro of sorts, with moody piano backing up the guest vocals of iRis.EXE. Then SeeYouSpaceCowboy take over for the main event in the form of “Silhouettes in Motion” — a spastic and expressive mix of metalcore, emo, and post-hardcore.
“This album was a chance for us to refine some of the melodic elements we had recently introduced to the band while also playing around with all things and bringing back reinvented version of past parts of our identity,” said frontwoman Connie Sgarbossa via the album’s press release. “The hope is that we made something that mixes the innate emotion of post hardcore with the cathartic essence of dancing and allure of cabaret/burlesque in a package reflecting the tale of a city on fire and it’s all to tragic individuals and their indulgence and woes.”
The band is embracing a neo-noir aesthetic for Coup De Grâce, as seen in the Vaudevillian video for the lead singles. iRis.EXE’s is seen as a smokey cabaret lounge singer from a bygone era, and Connie Sgarbossa takes on a mime-esque appearance among the period-specific decor.
“The record started as a visual idea,” explained Sgarbossa, “because when it came to lyrics, I didn’t know what the fuck to write at first. I’m not a drug addict junkie anymore, so I’m not going to write another album like The Romance of Affliction — I can’t, and I don’t want to.”
She continued: “So my mind wandered to things that I love, like Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels, where there are all these stories interlaced within a city. That led me to think about noir and neo-noir, and then pulp comics and novels from the ’40s and ’50s, which started to make it all come together lyrically and thematically, where each different song can be a different tale of the city.”
SeeYouSpaceCowboy will be supporting the new album on the road this spring as part of Better Lovers’ 2024 tour package. The outing kicks off in mid-April, and you can get tickets here.
Pre-order Coup De Grâce via Pure Noise Records. Stream the double video for “Respite for a Tragic Tale” and “Silhouettes in Motion” and see the album/tracklist below.
Coup De Grâce Artwork:
Coup De Grâce Tracklist:
01. Allow Us To Set The Scene
02. Subtle Whispers To Take Your Breath Away
03. And The Two Slipped Into Shadows
04. Red Wine And Discontent
05. Lubricant Like Kerosene (feat. Kim Dracula)
06. Respite For A Tragic Tale (feat. iRis.EXE)
07. Silhouettes In Motion
08. To The Dance Floor For Shelter (feat. Courtney LaPlante)
09. Rhythm And Rapture (feat. nothing,nowhere.)
10. Sister With A Gun
11. Chewing The Scenery
12. Curtain Call
