Movements are diving headfirst back into the emotional wreckage.
The Southern California post-hardcore outfit have announced their fourth studio album, Happier Now, landing September 4th via Fearless Records, alongside the announcement, the band have released a double hit of new material with ‘Dissolve Me’ and ‘Back In My Ways’, giving fans a sharp look at the album’s split personality between explosive catharsis and slow burning melancholy.
Movements ‘Dissolve Me / Back In My Ways’ video
For a band that’s spent the better part of the last decade soundtracking emotional collapse with shimmering guitars and gut-punch lyricism, the new tracks feel like Movements sharpening both edges of the blade.
‘Dissolve Me’ leans into the band’s more urgent side, throwing angular riffs and towering hooks into the pit ready tunes they’ve become known for, vocalist Patrick Miranda said the song became the blueprint for the rest of the record almost immediately.
‘Dissolve Me, the first track we wrote for this record, set a precedent for our writing process,’ Miranda explained. ‘It felt like the perfect culmination of energy, emotion, and growth for us sonically.’
Lyrically, the track digs into social anxiety and emotional exhaustion, with Miranda admitting the song acts as a confession about struggling through even the most basic interactions.
‘Sometimes it feels like the only remedy would be to slam my head into a wall,’ he said.
‘Back In My Ways’
On the other side of the release sits ‘Back In My Ways’, a slower and more introspective cut that gradually spirals emotionally by its closing moments, Miranda admitted the track took longer to connect with personally.
‘Back in My Ways was a track that I kinda hated at first,’ he revealed.
‘Sometimes the early versions of the songs we write don’t hit right away, but over time it’s become one of my favorite tracks on the record.’
Produced once again by Will Yip, whose fingerprints are all over modern post-hardcore through work with Turnstile, Title Fight, and Circa Survive, Happier Now promises to merge the emotional weight of Movements’ earlier material with the louder, more aggressive energy heard on 2023’s RUCKUS!.
Australian fans already got a reminder of the band’s live intensity earlier this year when Movements tore through arenas nationwide supporting Pierce The Veil, judging by these new tracks, they’re not done pulling at emotional scars just yet.
Movements ‘Happier Now’
Happier Now tracklist
- Pulse
- Dissolve Me
- Everything Is Fine
- Happier Now
- Flowerbed
- Back in My Ways
- Spellbound
- Ill at Ease
- Live by the Sword
- Everyone I’ve Ever Been
- Fragile
- Hands Separate
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