Bleachers have announced their new album ‘Everyone For 10 Minutes’ and shared soaring single ‘You And Forever’ – check it out below.
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Jack Antonoff and co. are set to release their fifth studio album on Friday May 22 via Dirty Hit. Described in a new press release as an “optimistic record that feels lovestruck and hopeful” – you can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Newly shared lead single ‘You and Forever’ comes accompanied by an Alex Lockett-directed music video starring Antonoff’s wife, Margaret Qualley. In the new visuals, Antonoff struggles to race home to see her, singing: “For crying out loud, I was crying out for a savior/ No Jesus Christ, no Roman gods, they cower at you, let me in” as she dances alone.
Check out the video and the full album tracklist below.
The ‘Everyone For Ten Minutes’ tracklist is:
1 – ‘Sideways’
2 – ‘The Van’
3 – ‘We Should Talk’
4 – ‘You And Forever’
5 – ‘Dirty Wedding Dress’
6 – ‘Take You Out Tonight’
7 – ‘I Can’t Believe You’re Gone’
8 – ‘Dancing’
9 – ‘She’s From Before’
10 – ‘I’m Not Joking’
11 – ‘Upstairs At Els’
It marks the follow up their 2024’s self-titled fourth album, which earned a glowing four-star review by NME’s Rhian Daly, who described it as containing “some of their best material yet”.
“What Bleachers have always excelled at (and continue to do so here) is creating a very specific, very distinctive atmosphere in their best songs, like ‘Chinatown’ and ‘Dream Of Mickey Mantle’,” her review read. “It’s one that feels timeless and sentimental – the aural equivalent of leafing through old photo albums, each image glanced over bringing those residual feelings and memories rushing back; a simultaneous longing for what was and hoping for what’s to come.
Antonoff also spoke to NME shortly after its release, and recalled how he had found a new version of self-respect throughout his time in the industry.
He said: “[It’s] to do what I love. You know, I live my life in the studio and on tour – that’s how I communicate and feel myself. [But] everyone has a different version of it. I think maintaining it as you define it – and not as it’s defined in a moment and culture – is pretty vital to maintain dignity and our own human experience. Especially as more and more of our lives become like other people’s reflections.
“It’s really important to reject that, especially as an artist or someone in the public eye [where] there’s so much pressure to toe any kind of party line thinking. And the truth is, I have thoughts that aren’t really quantified by any person or community; they’re just my own. And so I don’t want to be, I guess, as readable or predictable as I’d be celebrated [for] if I were to be.”
The musician is currently working on the soundtrack with Charli XCX for A24’s Mother Mary – which will star Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer and FKA Twigs – along with Lana Del Rey’s upcoming album ‘Stove’.
