Julian Casablancas and The Voidz announce new album ‘Like All Before You’
Julian Casablancas and The Voidz have announced details of their new album, Like All Before You. It will mark their first full-length record in six years.
The group’s third album arrives digitally on September 20th and physically on October 18th via Casablancas’ independent label, Cult Records. The new LP was brought to life between the band’s home studio in Venice, California and Vox Studios in Los Angeles, and saw them work with renowned producers Ivan Wayman, Justin Raisen and SAD PONY.
These three names alone infer the broad stylistic scope that The Voidz have always encompassed throughout their career. Previously, Wayman has worked with popstars Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus, meanwhile, Raisen helped bring the acclaimed, boundary-pushing efforts of Kim Gordon and Yves Tumor to life. The latter’s work includes the former Sonic Youth vocalist’s new album The Collective and he’s also released music under the alias of Sad Pony.
Shortly before the physical release date of Like All Before You, The Voidz are booked to perform at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre on October 16th before playing New York’s Apollo Theater on October 18th. The group’s long-awaited third effort follows on from their 2014 debut, Tyranny, and its 2018 follow-up, Virtue. Since the group’s last effort, Casablancas returned to his most prominent outfit, The Strokes, releasing The New Abnormal in 2020. A return to form following 2013’s Comedown Machine, it won a Grammy for ‘Best Rock Album’.
A new Voidz album seems to have been on the way for some time. In October 2023, the group released the single ‘Flexorcist’, which arrived with a video also featuring the previous effort, ‘Prophecy of The Dragon’. Both will feature on Like All Before You.
In true form, they explained at the time: “The track started with a very simple question… what would it feel like if God whispered into your ear ‘you are my most magnificent creature.’ What would that feeling sound like? What would its bassline be?”
They continued: “The response? …from the fiery bones of eternity, the dragon’s voice, awakened after millennia in waiting, spewed forth a sonic fist of impertinence in the shape of a New Pirate anthem, where nothing is what it seems, nor is it otherwise: Prophecy of the Dragon.”
Elsewhere, last summer, Casablancas joined in on the debate surrounding The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, following him making a pro-LGBTQ+ protest at a festival in Kuala Lumpur as homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia. While he thought what the British musician did was positive in raising awareness, Casablancas wrote on Instagram: “I just thought defending him as heroic was a bit white”.
Like All Before You tracklist:
- ‘Overture’
- ‘Square Wave’
- ‘Prophecy of The Dragon’
- ‘7 Horses’
- ‘Spectral Analysis’
- ‘Flexorcist’
- ‘Perseverance–1C2S’
- ‘All The Same’
- ‘When Will The Time of These Bastards End’
- ‘Walk Off (Outro)’
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