Godswounds, who feature former Mr. Bungle drummer Danny Heifetz, have announced a new album titled “Cheer Up Sunshine.” The record will be available on February 28 and it will include the following tracks:
01. “The Muel Pt. 1: Swadlings”
02. “The Muel Pt. 2: Gigan Vs. Your Mediocre Nihilism”
03. “Tantamount Love”
04. “The Murch”
05. “Shi”
06. “The Sheumaker”
07. “Gilgamesh Leaveth No Son to His Father, His Arrogance Swelling”
08. “Soulworm”
09. “The Simian Bathroom; or, Math Rock is for Thebans”
10. “A Goat in the Wilderness”
11. “Feel Bad Hit of the Winter”
12. “Further Explorations of the Somewhat Discredited Theories of Julian Jaynes as a Vehicle of Allegory; or, Doing the Best One Can to Rival the Pretentiousness, Obscurity and Vociferous Hyperbole of Post Rock’s Penchant for Unnecessarily Long Song Titles”
13. “Attrition Blues”
14. “Hadron 1”
15. “Thither the Animals Came That Their Hearts Might Delight in the Water, Aye, There Was Enkidu Also, He Whom the Mountains Had Gender’d”
16. “Gandhara”
17. “Black Bile”
18. “The Dee-Knee High-Fitz”
19. “Ex Nihilo”
20. “Together Again”
Keyboardist Lachlan Kerr commented:
“I see this album as a celebration of the remarkable talent of Muel, Simeon, Sam, Paul, Danny, and, of course, Toshi, and what an honor it is to make music with them.”
A video for “Tantamount Love” from the effort can be seen below. The group previously said the following about that track:
“Etched onto the stationary of a hotel notepad, the late, great Freddie Mercury left clues to the original title of Queen’s famed ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. What was it originally called? Why, ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’, of course! ‘Tantamount Love’ is our take on what a Mongolian Rhapsody could be: A high-energy, psychedelic history of the rise and rise again of the Mongolian Empire, full of sound and fury.”