The distorted-pop three-piece THE XCERTS have released their fantastic new album, Learning How To Live And Let Go, along with a video for their new single, “Lovesick.” The album is available now on CD and vinyl.
Learning How To Live And Let Go is an exciting new chapter for a band that is consistently regarded as one of the most exciting in the UK. The album shows the band at their slickest and most pop, while still being raw and honest. It deals with themes of love, heartbreak, joy, and sadness, and the band has admitted to working on the album “without limitations.” This has led to them exploring new musical influences, putting them in a lane they have not occupied before.
Frontman Murray Macleod said of the album: “At times over the past couple of years, I didn’t think this record would ever be heard, so the fact we are here is a beautiful thing. We rid ourselves of fear and pride and let our true experiences take center stage. It was up to the three of us to create a fully realized vision and commit ourselves wholeheartedly without second guessing ourselves and to make a record only THE XCERTS could make. At times it’s raw, vulnerable, emotional, tender, humorous, claustrophobic, narcissistic, noisy, quiet, calm, chaotic, slick and loving, but it’s a record rooted in healing and finding inner peace which I found during the course of making the album after a pretty tumultuous period in my life where everything was too loud, so I turned it all up. We wanted to make a record where the beauty transcends the chaos and I think we did it with a career best.”
“LOVESICK” is one of the boldest cuts from the album, and it shows the trio pushing their pop credentials. They have created a beautiful cacophony of 90s-influenced gospel-pop-soul, a track that will open eyes to what the three-piece are capable of. The accompanying video literally bursts in bubblegum technicolor, an exploding and sometimes graphic imagining of a song that takes a comically honest look at a situation that’s too far gone.
Recently released tracks “Jealousy” and the explosive “Blame”, joined the brash & bombastic comeback single “GIMME” (described as “a furiously catchy, superbly punchy return” by CLASH Magazine), as well as the gloriously optimistic “Ache” featuring Sam Carter of Architects, (“another lesson in alt-pop brilliance”- DIY Magazine) as a perfect introduction to a diverse record that the band have poured their heart and soul into.
Learning How To Live And Let Go is out now via UNFD.
