Pain have shared an official video for their new song “Go With The Flow.” That track will appear on their new album “I Am,” which is set to be released on May 17.
Peter Tägtgren said the following about the song:
“‘Go With The Flow‘ takes me back to 80’s synth pop. Writing in more of that direction was an idea that I had for a while, so I started taking out analog synths and going crazy, and of course I needed to come back to a catchy Pain chorus. The hardest part was to write lyrics to the song, and to figure out what style to use to sing… the lyrics are about me always being negative and needing to let things go when things don’t go as planned and to brush it off and move on.”
He also added the following about the album:
“If I had one big goal this time, it was to add more intensity and edge to the songs. ‘Coming Home‘ turned out great, but looking back now, I was maybe a little too deep into my ‘David Bowie worship’ with the orchestral stuff and the acoustic guitars. This time around, I definitely wanted more tempo, aggressiveness and an industrial atmosphere. Going back towards the old times of PAIN? Maybe a bit…
‘I Am‘ is also more of a family affair than ever before. My son Sebastian – also a PAIN drummer – wrote the music of ‘Revolution’ and ‘Don’t Wake the Dead’. These absorbing songs add width to an already versatile album. All in all, completing ‘I Am‘ required a lot of composing, writing, thinking, experimenting, doing and re-doing. It was a long and sometimes challenging process, but never painful!”
“I Am” Track Listing:
01. “I Just Dropped By (To Say Goodbye)”
02. “Don’t Wake The Dead”
03. “Go With The Flow”
04. “Not For Sale”
05. “Party In My Head”
06. “I Am”
07. “Push The Pusher”
08. “The New Norm”
09. “Revolution”
10. “My Angel”
11. “Fair Game