Last month, Crime In Stereo announced ‘House and Trance’, their first album in 13 years. Having previously shared ‘Hypernormalisation’ and ‘Books Cannot Be Killed By Fire’, the Long Island hardcore band have released a third track – ‘Rogue Wave’.
The third part of the ‘House and Trance Audiologue’ is a compelling, intense and soaring number that continues the album’s lyrical theme. It’s one that is centred on societal frustrations. In a message passed on by the band, they stated:
“Everyone enjoyed their time here. Idle afternoons, doused in coolant. Organized activities scheduled around coronal ejections. Juice boxes unlimited to members and two free with every guest day-pass. By now, most of the senators owned lucrative cement businesses, but many complained of the difficulty making new friends in adulthood. Bank holidays were especially tough on the interns, long weekends of splashing acid on the faces of their rivals’ constituents and filing detailed expense reports for the chemicals, which somehow they still would never get fully reimbursed for.”
‘House & Trance’ will be released through Pure Noise on October 27th.
‘Rogue Wave’ Lyrics
Boil away the excess,
bottle up the rest
Forget the wreckage
Let the weather kill what’s left
You’ll never guess
which segments fracture under stress
You’ll never guess
the way the wave reacts
Now they’ve got elephant tranqs
locked in the oxygen tanks
As a toxic bloom
crashed upon the banks,
I swim to you
Caught in a low wake,
grown into a wave
Underneath the weight
above you
Devour
Spin out
Are you waiting
in the way?
Got in a rogue wave
to drown
you out
Barricade the exits
Miles of velvet rope
to hold you closer
until the weather kills us both
And they’ve got elephant tranqs
locked in the oxygen tanks
As a toxic bloom
crashed upon the banks,
I swim to you
I’m spinning, still drifting out
Low wake, rogue wave
A way to take
the beast by the hand,
lead him from the arena
and out into the land
