Pendulum Announce First New Album in 15 Years, "INERTIA"

Pendulum are formally again in album mode.

The long-lasting electronic-rock outfit introduced this week that their long-awaited fourth album, INERTIA, will drop on August twenty second, marking their first full-length launch in 15 years.

The information is accompanied by the discharge of “Save The Cat,” the album’s blistering lead single. In traditional Pendulum style, the observe delivers a high-octane fusion of drum & bass, metallic and emotionally charged vocals from frontman Rob Swire, whose scream-laced efficiency is backed by thunderous drums and cinematic synths.

Swire mentioned the the observe was written “throughout a interval of self-questioning and frustration” following two breakups.

“It’s the sound of Pendulum discovering themselves once more, and me figuring myself out to a sure extent,” he mentioned in a press launch. “Breakups try this—they strip issues down and present you who you might be. I’m simply attempting to not change into the man who must undergo one simply to make a document.”

A feline-themed jolt of nostalgia and aggression, “Save The Cat” previews what INERTIA guarantees to be: a return to Pendulum’s roots with a contemporary, sharpened edge. The album, their first since 2010’s Immersion, will function quite a lot of high-profile collaborations, together with tracks with Bullet For My Valentine, AWOLNATION, Hybrid Minds and Joey Valance & Brae.

Revered for his or her explosive reside exhibits and groundbreaking fusion of drum & bass and rock, Pendulum are as soon as once more proving that few acts can match their depth and affect throughout digital music’s evolving panorama.

“I used to be principally testing how far we may push Pendulum,” Swire added. “Seeing what we may get away with. I at all times checked out The Prodigy because the benchmark. They began out as pure rave—breakbeat, hardcore—however they developed. They grew to become their very own sound.”

Due out August twenty second by way of Mushroom Music, INERTIA will function 16 tracks. You’ll be able to pre-save the album right here.