Thrice Release New Single “Robot Soft Exorcism”

California rock band Thrice have shared their newest single “Robot Soft Exorcism” off their upcoming album, Horizons/East. The song grows and lures listeners in with a unique robotic beat that almost seems to be breathing, creating a living rhythm. The track title may sound familiar to those who follow the American author David Dark and his system of horizontal perspective in which he and singer Dustin Kensrue have spoken about in great length. 

Horizons/East is available for pre-order now and will be released on September 17 digitally and October 8 physically via Epitaph Records. The album exemplifies art as a work of recognition — the human task of perceiving oneself amid details, disasters, and blessings as a relentlessly relational phenomenon among others. In this, Horizons/East is the rare rock album on which interrelatedness is a theme, painting an adventurous and lush landscape mixed by Scott Evans that the band self-produced and recorded at their own New Grass Studio. 

The album’s lead single, “Scavengers” and its accompanying music video are available to watch now. Over a dark and intricate braiding of guitar and drum grooves, the video transports viewers to a world of mystery and disguises that leaves viewers unsure of whom to trust and where to turn. 

With the new album, the band addresses, with candor and courage, the fragile and awkward arrangements that pass for civilization, while inviting us to dwell more knowingly within our own lives. Without surrendering any of the energy and hard edge of their previous albums, they’ve given us a profoundly meditative work, which serves as a musical summons to everyday attentiveness.   

Horizons/East conveys a palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility.