Drew Daniel is getting ready to release his first Soft Pink Truth album since 2022. The new album, Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?, is out January 30 via Thrill Jockey. The record’s lead single, “Time Inside the Violet,” comes with a music video made by animator Matthew Murray Sullivan in collaboration with visual artist Vicki Bennett. Watch the visual below.
Daniel worked on Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?—the follow-up to Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?—with his husband and Matmos bandmate M.C. Schmidt, guitarist Bill Orcutt, and many others. On the new album, according to a press release, “Daniel probes the limitations of pleasure in the midst of our dystopian contemporary landscape.”
Read more about Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? in Pitchfork’s “The Best Electronic Music of 2022.”
Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?:
01 Mere Survival Is Not Enough
02 And By and By a Cloud Takes All Away
03 Phrygian Ganymede
04 Underneath (I)
05 L’Esprit de l’Escalier
06 Time Inside the Violet
07 Orchard
08 Underneath (II)