London metalcore favourites Ithaca have launched their closing single.
The self-titled track, out immediately (Might 20), comes because the five-piece put together for his or her last-ever present, scheduled for Bristol’s Arctangent pageant in August. They introduced their impending cut up in October and performed their closing headline gig at London’s O2 Academy Islington in February.
Hearken to Ithaca beneath.
The band remark: “Ithaca means residence, the place you come to when the journey is full. On this closing track, we put this band to relaxation. Each reminiscence, each tear, each chortle is in right here. Thanks for the whole lot. Om namo narayanaya.”
Ithaca fashioned in 2013 and launched their debut album, The Language Of Harm, in 2019. They adopted it up with They Concern Us in 2022. It acquired vital acclaim, together with a near-perfect nine-out-of-10 assessment from Steel Hammer. Journalist Elliot Leaver wrote: “What a triumph this report is. Completely important listening.”
After they introduced their break-up, Ithaca chalked it as much as an incapability to steadiness their private lives with the calls for of the band.
“There’s been no falling out or artistic variations, actually we’re nearer than ever,” they wrote. “We’re simply now not in a position to steadiness our life duties with providing you with the usual of artwork that you just deserve, and really feel like we’ve fulfilled greater than our wildest goals may have imagined when it comes to the place this band would take us. Now, we’re able to put it to relaxation.”
In an interview with Hammer, lead singer Djamila Azzouz added that monetary burdens additionally performed a component.
“We will’t afford to be in a band,” she defined. “The purpose of success we reached with our final album was so wonderful, past what we ever thought we may obtain, however to ensure that us to achieve the subsequent step up, we must sacrifice greater than we will.”
Hammer attended Ithaca’s closing headliner and wrote: “The power and pleasure can’t be denied, however in addition they make the data of this band going away a fair harsher actuality.”
Arctangent will happen from August 13 to 16 at Fernhill Farm, Bristol. Wardruna, Tesseract, Karnivool and another artist TBA will headline.
