Refused - Freedom (2014-2015)

6/18/15 1:07AM

another new song/video.




5/26/15 2:30PM

Pretty riffy new track "Françafrique," that reminds me more of their older music.

I'm now wondering if this record could be a bit of a sleeper.


4/30/15 1:56PM

I know it's a few days late (I've been battling a cold among other things in fairness), but it's not just 1 song, but a new album titled Freedom. Release date is June 30th.

Preorder



1 Elektra
2 Old Friends / New War
3 Dawkins Christ
4 Françafrique
5 Thought Is Blood
6 War on the Palaces
7 Destroy the Man
8 366
9 Servants of Death
10 Useless Europeans


Tour dates, of course Minnesota is Fly-Over-Land.

05/02 Meerhout, Belgium - Groezrock
05/22 Hünxe, Germany - Ruhrpott Rodeo Open Air Festival
05/24 Las Vegas, NV - Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival
05/25 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory
05/26 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theatre
05/28 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
05/29 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
05/30 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
05/31 Chicago, IL - Double Door
06/01 Boston, MA - The Sinclair
06/03 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
06.04 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
06/05 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
06/20 Montebello, Quebec - Amnesia Rockfest
06/27 Seinäjoki, Finland - Provinssi
07/02 Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
07/11 Collalbo, Italy - Rock im Ring
07/16 Viveiro, Spain - Resurrection Fest
07/17 Tønsberg, Norway - Slottsfjell
07/18 Tromso, Norway - Bukta Tromso Open Air Festival
07/30 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Music Park *
08/01 Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center *
08/02 Columbia, MA - Merriweather Post Pavilion *
08/04 Boston, MA - Blue Hills Bank Pavilion *
08/05 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden *
08/07 Toronto, Ontario - Ricoh Coliseum *
08/28 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08/29 Gräfenhainichen, Germany - Pure & Crafted Festival
08/30 Reading, England - Reading Festival
* with Faith No More

4/27/15 6:17PM


pretty nice stuff, damn.

A lot of drooling is going on over this, which I follow, but my impression is unlike the band they are going out on tour with, Faith No More, this doesn't sound incredibly like their music of so many years ago.

Regardless, nice riff, nice energy. I'm up for a new record from these guys certainly.

The Shape Of Punk To Come is an album I do enjoy, and while I suppose it could be regarded as Punk, it is different and even melodic enough for me, that I don't consider it all that Punk per say.

And this new music of theirs, it seems could be even less so, but good regardless. Maybe their many years broken up, like FNM or say, The Tea Party, will benefit their music.

Album Anticipation List/Calendar (Summer 2015)

I'm sure there's many I'm missing and may find myself editing in, in here. And a video could be made about this upcoming period of new records, as I recall thinking when I made the preview video a few months back, it may make sense to forget about a preview for the "year" or "season" but just every few months, etc.

Anyway, for now, this is a reasonably good list of many of the records I'm anticipating over the next few months.

Kaddisfly and The Dear Hunter are the Blue Chips of course. It feels like 2007 again, lol...maybe The River Empires will find it's way onto 1 of these lists as well 1 of these years.

June 15th


AM and Shawn Lee - Outlines


June 21st 



Kaddisfly - Horses Galloping on Sailboats



God is an Astronaut - Helios | Erebus

June 22nd


Everything Everything -  Get to Heaven

June 23rd


Motopony - Welcome You

June 30th


The Velvet Teen - All is illusory


Refused - Freedom

July 7th


Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic

August 7th


Gatherer - Heavy Hail

August 12th


Miracles of Modern Science - Mean Dreams


August 14th

 
Mother Falcon - Good Luck Have Fun


August 28th


Foals - What Went Down

September 4th


The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Reprise in Rebirth

Waiting on Release Dates (among many others)
-The Bird and the Bee - Recreational Love
-Mutemath - Vitals
-Klimt 1918 - Die Sentimentale Jugend
-22 - You Are Creating
-The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - Earthlift

Also some confirmation about 2016 artists:
-Ours: likely early in 2016 ala February or March per a listening party already setup early in the year.
-Dream the Electric Sleep Spring 2016 per a post yesterday. They are working with Rush producer Nick Raskulinecz right now

Refused to do a REUNION?

Enemy link

not that I am overly thrilled about this as I only recently heard this band, but it's good news to pass along.


Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe also painted further evidence of a possible reformation when he expressed his delight on his Twitter page earlier today (March 27) adding: "This. Is. HUGE!!!!!, Refused have reformed."

edit: now I'm confused. someone on last.fm says it's just a LIVE reunion. And then DJ Zane Lowe (whose cited in that Enemy story) has posted this on his twitter "Refused Are Coming"!!!??... I'm sorry but that is playing on peoples hopes. Oh well, apologies for the false alarm.

official Refused site as it says there "Coming Soon."

amongst the hardcore vox, they do have a lot of experimental, textural (the guitars mainly) and cool melodic sections, from hearing "The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts" (1998)



it might be interesting to see what 12 years of music history/influence will bring to their music now. Although I'm not sure it did a ton for the Glassjaw reunion. But I already dig these guys more than Glassjaw.