Post-Hardcore collective Fiddlehead have revealed details of their upcoming third album. It’s titled ‘Death Is Nothing To Us’ and will be released through Run For Cover Records on August 18th.
It’s the follow-up to 2021’s superb ‘Between The Richness’ record and will complete a thematic trilogy, seeing vocalist Pat Flynn continue to tackle difficult existential themes with an open-heartedness. The announcement calls ‘Death Is Nothing To Us’ Fiddlehead‘s “most dynamic set of songs to date”.
“I don’t want people to romanticise grief and depression, myself included,” Flynn explains. “But I wanted to write about the way loss can perpetuate this feeling of sadness in your life. I didn’t intend to make some kind of thematic trilogy but there is this connection to the first two records, and this album sort of rounds out some of the stages of grief that weren’t addressed previously–especially this feeling of stickiness that a depressive attitude can have.”
1. The Deathlife
2. Sleepyhead
3. Loserman
4. True Hardcore (II)
5. Welcome to the Situation
6. Sullenboy
7. Give It Time (II)
8. Queen of Limerick
9. The Woes
10. Fiddleheads
11. Fifteen To Infinity
12. Going To Die
Listen to ‘Sullenboy’ by Fiddlehead
Alongside the announcement of ‘Death Is Nothing To Us’, Fiddlehead have shared a video for its first single – ‘Sullenboy‘.
The track sees the quintet display their approachable brand of melodic post-hardcore with Pat Flynn’s distinctive voice and existential lyricism, singing “I feel the fear I can’t repair broken records of family trees”
You can watch the video and read the lyrics for ‘Sullenboy’ below.
Sun comes up on another day of staring right at the floor.
hiding my eyes and sad man sighs ‘I can’t take anymore.
and ‘I’m so tired. I’m so fried from the failure inside my mind.
I think I’ll hide, I think I’ll die, and quit this life-bit for a while.”
I feel the fear, I feel the fear,
I feel the fear I can’t repair broken records of family trees.
I feel the fear I will repeat.
Depressive Irish genes may have me breathing dismal poems,
Sad Shepard recipes for generations of laying low.
But I got fire, I got light – she’s in the mire by my side,
hand in hand in the ice, cold night and mothering our brand new life.
Yeah I got fire, I got light – they’re three feet tall and smile bright.
Their day is young and their future’s wide,
and I’ll die before I don’t help them rise.
So face it, face it, face it all:
Replace it, replace, replace with love
So face it, face it, face it all:
and watch it, see it, feel it grow.
I feel the fear, I feel the fear,
I feel the fear I can’t repair broken records of family trees.
I feel the fear I will repeat.
So face it, face it, face it all:
Replace it, replace, replace with love
So face it, face it, face it all:
and watch it grow.
When is Fiddlehead Coming Back to the UK?
Although Fiddlehead are set to kick off a tour alongside Citizen in the States later this month, UK fans won’t get the chance until next February.
They will be playing a one-off show at The Garage in London on February 23rd. Tickets are on-sale on Friday, June 9th at 10am BST and can be purchased here.
