Kendra Sheetz Canadian punk veterans The Flatliners has announced that they will be releasing a brand new album, Cold World. The full-length released will be released on Friday, May 8th via Equal Vision Records and Dine Alone Records.
The band’s prior 2022 release, New Ruin, was preoccupied with the inherited damages of the last generation. Cold World sees that legacy for what it is — a ghost, a fading memory. If New Ruin was about the rage of realization, now we’re damned with the aftermath of clarity.
The Flatliners has released the debut single off the album as an accompaniment to the announcement. “Good, You?” is a snotty, tongue-in-cheek offering that successfully skewers the topic of toxic masculinity and the irrational fear we all seem to share of talking about our feelings. They also are offering up a music video for the new track directed by Jeff Powers.
The band had the following to say about the new music video and single:
“We wanted to pay homage to the greatest era of music videos we have ever known — the one we grew up in. Our aim was to make a ‘90s-style video, portraying the album artwork in all its glory; to bring things back to a time where you could suspend disbelief and just let your eyes and ears devour those next three minutes. With the help of our amazing cast and crew, we achieved just that. A piece of nowstalgia that feels like it has a strong footin the past, and another firmly planted in the pr
Check out the music video for “Good, You?” below, pre-order/pre-save your copy of the new album here, and keep checking back for more from The Flatliners!
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