Descendents have announced the details of their much anticipated new album, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, set for release on July 29 via Epitaph. A new video “Victim of Me” is available below.
Descendents’ first Epitaph release since Everything Sucks in 1996, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, began taking shape after the band ended an extended hiatus to play live in 2010. Though still tight, they lived apart: singer Milo Aukerman -- whose cartoon rendering famously serves as the band’s logo -- was now living in Delaware, bassist Karl Alvarez and founder and drummer Bill Stevenson were in Colorado, and guitarist Stephen Egerton had settled in Oklahoma. So the album came to life over three years as the band sent tracks back and forth, occasionally meeting up in Karl and Bill’s adopted hometown of Fort Collins. Adopting such a protracted process meant not having to rush things, allowing for some of their sharpest songwriting yet.
“I think one of the things that’s kept us inspired over the years is having the music as an outlet for our frustrations,” says Milo, who delivered a particularly impassioned, even aggressive vocal performance. “Having the freedom to completely blow my voice out every time I recorded was a very positive experience for me,” he says. Personal catharsis was a prime motivator for Bill, who names “my relationship priorities and my own faulty psychology” as his top inspirations. “In a way, putting pen to paper and getting whatever you need to get out of you is the big accomplishment,” he says.
Every Descendents album is an event. Formed in 1978, the band’s first releases have proven historic, and all the ones since have only further refined the Descendents concept. Punk, pop, buzzing, summery, heartfelt, defiant, adolescent, and wise all at once -- the Descendents. Twelve years have passed since there’s been new Descendents music. Finally, here comes their long-awaited album, Hypercaffium Spazzinate.
Pre-orders for Hypercaffium Spazzinate are available at https://lnk.to/descendents
From the band...
"Our new album ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’ will be available July 29th! It’s 16 tracks of caffeine fueled songs that we are very proud of and are Basemaster General approved."
HYPERCAFFIUM SPAZZINATE TRACK LIST
1. Feel This
2. Victim Of Me
3. On Paper
4. Shameless Halo
5. No Fat Burger
6. Testosterone
7. Without Love
8. We Got Defeat
9. Smile
10. Limiter
11. Fighting Myself
12. Spineless and Scarlet Red
13. Human Being
14. Full Circle
15. Comeback Kid
16. Beyond The Music
Also available will be a one sided 5 track 7 inch titled "Spazz Hazard"
SPAZZ HAZARD TRACK LIST
Side A
1. Days Of Desperation - 2:09
2. Thinkin' - 2:27
3. Grindstone - 1:04
4. Business A.U. - 2:16
5. Unchanged - 3:00
Side B
· Etching
Watch the video for "Victim Of Me"
Listen to their new track “Victim Of Me” below, and pre-order the album here.