St Albans quintet Trash Boat have revealed details of their fourth album. It’s titled ‘Heaven Can Wait’ and will be released on October 4th via Hopeless Records.
Having firmly outgrown their pop-punk roots on 2021’s ‘Don’t You Feel Amazing?’, ‘Heaven Can Wait’ promises to be 11 “shapeshifting” tracks full of twists and turns; introspective and full of deep-seated questions.
“Life is pretty chaotic,” says Trash Boat vocalist Tobi Duncan explaining his band’s fervent fourth full-length album. “The world is pretty chaotic. I’m pretty chaotic, and this album is every piece of me and us as a band. I’m not trying to paint a pretty picture that is nice to look at or that’s easily digestible. I’m simply trying to paint an honest picture, and get as much of myself into these songs as possible. It’s direct. It’s unfiltered. It’s raw.”
The album includes new single, ‘Be Someone’ (feat. Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail), as well as past singles ‘Break You,’ ‘Liar Liar’ and ‘Delusions of Grandeur’.
1. Watching Heaven…2. Burn
3. Be Someone (feat. Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail)
4. filthy/RIGHTEOUS (feat. Kenta Koie of Crossfaith)
5. Are You Ready Now?
6. Better Than Yesterday
7. Break You
8. The Drip
9. Liar Liar
10. Delusions of Grandeur
11. Lazy
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Listen to ‘Be Someone’ featuring I Prevail‘s Eric Vanlerberghe
The announcement of ‘Heaven Can Wait’ is accompanied by a new track – ‘Be Someone’. Featuring guest vocals from Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail, the track is a fiery alt-rock number honing on the band’s melodic rawness, with Vanlerberghe’s screams merely adding to the intensity.
“Eric’s wife was actually a fan of Trash Boat, which was how we ended up touring with them in the first place. We got on great on tour and he joined us on stage for a few guest spots throughout. During the tour, we asked if he’d be up for guesting on a new song and he was down,” explained Trash Boat‘s Tobi Duncan on how the collaboration came to fruition.
Duncan goes on to share how a night out in Dublin, Ireland made ‘Be Someone’s subject matter “poetically relevant”. “We were out drinking and a drunk guy was trying to fight everyone. He started tossing his own girlfriend around, which is where Eric stepped in and before you knew it, the guy turned on Eric. Eric shoved him to the floor and walked away, as he did the guy tried to sucker punch Eric from behind. That’s where I got involved and where it came to an end. The song was already written at this point, but the subject matter is poetically relevant.”
Vanlerberghe’s guest appearance is the first of two cameos on ‘Heaven Can Wait’. The second sees Kenta Koie of Crossfaith appear on a track called ‘filthy/RIGHTEOUS’, and is described as “skittish Linkin Park-sounding”
‘Be Someone’ Lyrics
Run for your life
Biting my tongue ‘cause I’m unqualified
Swallow my rage ‘til I’m burning inside
We’re not the same
We’ll never be friends
So out of touch so don’t touch me again
If it has ever been thus
Then maybe I’ll just take everything back
I complain every day cos I’m good at it
Have disdain for the game but I’ll never quit
Cos one day it will change, yeah I’m sure of it
I don’t really wanna fall in line
Tell me would I be safe, would I be safe with a gun?
Maybe if I catch a body I’ll be someone
Tell me would I be safe, would I be safe if I run?
I can always sell my body to have some fun
In one ear and out the other side
Nothing said will ever change your mind
Blood on your hands you feel justified
An eye for an eye left you deaf dumb and blind
Short-sighted, Close minded
Theres something you should know
When you fight it, the grip tightens
Just let it go
They’ll put a bullet right between your eyes
Then start again and leave your body outside cold
It’s never ending
It gets worse every day and I’m sick of it
We all pay for mistakes of the one percent
It’s ok ‘cause today I got over it
I don’t really like to waste my time
