Converge have shared an official video for their new single “Love Is Not Enough.” That song serves as the title track of the band's new album, which will be available on February 13.
Frontman Jacob Bannon commented on the single:
“[It] explores what it means to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. A reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future – if we can fend off the scavengers.”
He also added the following about the album:
“I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre. Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.”
“It does a thing that no other Converge record does — it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently, and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
“We still identify this band as the outlet that’s essential to our lives. We give everything we have to it. Being past your average middle age, we’re starting to see deeper than before into a variety of places. And I don’t think that’s specific to us. I think that’s something that’s utterly relatable.”
“Love Is Not Enough” Track Listing:
01. “Love Is Not Enough”
02. “Bad Faith”
03. “Distract And Divide”
04. “To Feel Something”
05. “Beyond Repair”
06. “Amon Amok”
07. “Force Meets Presence”
08. “Gilded Cage”
09. “Make Me Forget You”
10. “We Were Never The Same”