Who’s ready to get moving? Maybe shake your tailfeathers a bit or something? Because the new track from Between The Buried And Me titled “Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark” off their newly announced album The Blue Nowhere is groovy as fuck. If you don’t get moving even a little bit you might want to have your pulse checked.
Touted as their “most immersive and eclectic record yet,” vocalist Tommy Rogers explained that the new album is a collection of 10 tracks that apparently bucks the band’s tendency of creating concept albums.
“[The Blue Nowhere] exists in a world that’s not tied to a storyline. It’s more about a feeling, where the songs live for me.”
Speaking of the new single, Dan Briggs said he approached it a little differently than most of the other songs he’s worked on.
“It’s one of the rare songs I started around the bass and that foundational funky idea, while also maintaining a pretty straightforward melodic idea underneath everything, no matter how dense it got rhythmically. I love when we have arrangements that feel like they have a page turn into another dimension, but I thought it was important for this one to feel really seamless as it moved dynamically. Even when it gets heavy, I thought it’d be fun at the core to still feel like it was Prince’s band playing, keeping it funky.”
And while the video below sure looks like AI bullshit, its director Miles Skarin explains it’s actually one big digital rendering of a hotel based on the album concept and art.
“For ‘Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark,’ we wanted to create the hotel from the album concept and artwork – we 3D-modeled the hotel based on the artwork and began to create shots of it at different times of day. Marigold is a theme across the record, so we have a scene where lots of marigold petals start to cover the hotel. This was quite an intense particle simulation that took 17 hours to process and render. We also added surreal elements to the video, including infinite hotel corridors and strange space sequences with the doors to the different rooms in the hotel. We’re really pleased with the final look and hope that everyone enjoys seeing the hotel come to life!”
The Blue Nowhere will be released on September 12 via InsideOutMusic, but you can preorder your copy today.
The Blue Nowheretrack listing:
1.Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark
2.God Terror
3.Absent Thereafter
4.Pause
5.Door #3
6.Mirador Uncoil
7.Psychomanteum
8.Slow Paranoia
9.The Blue Nowhere
10. Beautifully Human
Between the Buried and Me tour dates:
July 30Istanbul, TRIF Performance Hall
July 31Râşnov, RORockstadt Extreme Fest
August 1Budapest, HUMonolit Festival 2025
August 2Wien, ATSzene
August 3München, DEFree & Easy Festival
August 4Berlin, DEHole44
August 5Katowice, PLMiçdzynarodowe Centrum Kongresowe
August 6 – 7Jaroměř, CZBrutal Assault 2025
August 9Kortrijk, BEAlcatraz Metal Festival
August 10Utrecht, NLPandora
August 11Tilburg, NL013 Next Stage
August 12Köln, DELuxor
August 14Dinkelsbühl, DESummer Breeze
August 15 – 16Compton Martin, UKArcTanGent
August 17Carhaix-Plouguer, FRFestival Motocultor