Small Black wrestles with misfortunes on its forthcoming album, Best Blues, due out this fall through Jagjaguwar. The follow-up to 2013’s Limits of Desire is “about loss, the specific loss of precious people in our lives, but also the loss of memories and the difficult fight to preserve them,” a press release reads. The synthpop group’s latest preview, the hazy “No One Wants It to Happen to You”, captures this feeling of utter devastation, but also features glimmers of hope.
“‘No One Wants It To Happen To You’ was meant as a mantra,” lead vocalist Josh Kolenik explains. “Something an older, wiser friend told you once that you might cling to in order to get through a terrible situation. The phrase you keep folded up in your pocket, letting you know better will surely come.”’
Listen in below.
Best Blues arrives on October 16th. For more, check out “Boys Life”.
Best Blues Tracklist:
01. Personal Best
02. No One Wants It To Happen To You
03. Boys Life
04. The Closer I Look
05. Big Ideas, Pt. 2
06. Back at Belle’s
07. Between Leos
08. Checkpoints
09. Smoke Around The Bend
10. XX Century