TRASH BOAT RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘BETTER THAN YESTERDAY’ NEW ALBUM ‘HEAVEN CAN WAIT’ OUT OCTOBER 4TH
TRASH BOAT release new single ‘Better Than Yesterday‘
New album ‘Heaven Can Wait’ out October 4th
St Albans quintet Trash Boat have today released new single, ‘Better Than Yesterday’, taken from the band’s new album, ‘Heaven Can Wait’, set for release on October 4th via Hopeless Records.
Speaking of the track, frontman Tobi Duncan shares, “this song centres around the classic saying ‘comparison is the death of joy’. It creeps into everything I do, who does what I do better than me, who makes more money, who’s better looking, who’s stronger, who’s in a bigger band, focusing on everything that I haven’t (yet) managed to achieve and putting myself down because of it, rather than bigging myself up for what I have already done or focusing on achieving more.
This feeling can make you lose faith with anything creative and has crept into my mind regarding music multiple times,” he adds. ‘“The song is a reminder to not try to be better than anyone other than yesterdays self, the only person you should focus on beating!”
WATCH / LISTEN TO ‘BETTER THAN YESTERDAY’ HERE
“Life is pretty chaotic,” begins Trash Boat vocalist Tobi Duncan by way of explaining his band’s fervent fourth full-length album. “The world is pretty chaotic. I’m pretty chaotic, and this album is every piece of me and us as a band”
Welcome to the world of Heaven Can Wait: a knotty, gnarled riddle of a record, at one turn deeply introspective, full of deep-seated questions, anxiety and despondency; at the next fuelled by a righteous rage towards an unjust, uncaring world stuck in a downward spiral. “I just wanna change the world, but I don’t know where to begin,” Duncan sings on the twisting, Britpop-channelling free fall of Delusions Of Grandeur. “I’ve already changed myself, a different me every weekend.”
Anyone paying attention to Trash Boat’s indomitable ascent through alternative rock’s upper echelons will find little to surprise in those statements. The band’s preceding third album, 2021’s Don’t You Feel Amazing?, elevated the quintet – completed by guitarists Ryan Hyslop and Dann Bostock, bassist James Grayson and drummer Oakley Moffatt – to the cover of esteemed tastemaker publications including Kerrang! and Upset, racking up 19m global streams off the back of key editorial playlist looks fronting Spotify’s The Rock List and Amazon’s Rock Scene. But more so, it served to shatter the constrained box into which expectation of the band previously had neatly sat. “I think people had come to expect a very particular sound from Trash Boat, and Don’t You Feel Amazing? was us exploring different sides, influences and inspirations, and finding our true sound,” Duncan reflects. “Heaven Can Wait, which we collectively self-produced, is an extension of that journey of exploration. As a band, we don’t have a singular artistic direction. We’re a cloud of chaos.”
Across its 11 shapeshifting tracks, Heaven Can Wait crackles with a white-hot energy. There’s the Deftones-invoking double salvo of Watching Heaven… Burn; the skittish Linkin Park-sounding filthy/RIGHTEOUS, for which Crossfaith’s Kenta Koie lends a thrilling guest vocal; and the slow-burn Are You Ready Now?, boasting, Duncan beams, a throat-shredding 22-second-long scream. It’s Trash Boat at their “heaviest, slowest, fastest, most complicated and contradictory”, the frontman attests.
“I’m not trying to paint a pretty picture that is nice to look at or that’s easily digestible,” Duncan says of Heaven Can Wait. “I’m simply trying to paint an honest picture, and get as much of myself into these songs as possible. It’s direct. It’s unfiltered. It’s raw.”
It’s Trash Boat’s finest creative expression to date, too. Embrace the chaos.
Heaven Can Wait
Tracklisting
1) Watching Heaven…
2) Burn
3) Be Someone (feat. Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail)
4) filthy/RIGHTEOUS (feat. Kenta Koie of Crossfaith)
5) Are You Ready Now?
6) Better Than Yesterday
7) Break You
8) The Drip
9) Liar Liar
10) Delusions of Grandeur
11) Lazy
Pre-order / Pre-save: https://ffm.to/heavencanwaittb
Trash Boat is:
Tobi Duncan – Vocals
Ryan Hyslop – Guitar
Dann Bostock – Guitar
James Grayson – Bass
Oakley Moffatt – Drums
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