Release dates are becoming increasingly meaningless. After hyping The Mysterines pile-driving new single “Sink Ya Teeth” back in April, we fell down a sonic rabbit hole soundtracked by the Liverpool band’s 2022 album Reeling, which has been on constant repeat ever since. We can’t call it our AOTY since it dropped two fucking years ago, but fear not, we have a chance of editorial redemption.
The explosive alternative rock band is set to release sophomore record Afraid of Tomorrows via Fiction Records this Friday (June 21), and it includes the aforementioned banger, February single “Stray,” and a stirring new single titled “The Last Dance” that hits right on the record’s moody eve.
We might save a heavier dose of pink digital ink for the Afraid of Tomorrows drop, but in the meantime, “The Last Dance” serves as a whirring tone-setter for what should be a monster album from one of the best new rock and roll bands we’ve heard in years. It’s allegedly about a person who falls in love with a porcelain mannequin and wants nothing more than to dance with them. This is how the strings get cut, as they say.
“I suppose it’s an analogy for what loneliness can do to you,” admits Mysterines frontwoman Lia. “Once you’ve exhausted all the dark alleyways of drugs and alcohol, you end up reaching for something to connect to that isn’t real.”
Oh, how we all long for that connection. “Dance” with The Mysterines below, and brace for impact this New Music Friday.
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