Anti-Flag Unplug For 'American Reckoning' and Share Video For The Debate Is Over (If You Want It)
Friday, 27 July 2018
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Jake Stark
Anti-Flag will return with an acoustic album, 'American Reckoning', on September 28.
The 10-song record will contain seven unplugged versions of songs from the Pittsburgh political punks' past two albums, 2015's 'American Spring' and last year's 'American Fall', as well as covers of John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth, Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth and Cheap Trick's Surrender, three songs that inspired them. Here's what the band had to say about the record:
"When you’re a band that has been together as long as Anti-Flag has you take nothing for granted. We have far exceeded any personal expectations we have had for the band, our art and the reach that it has had. This chapter of our band started with the hope of American Spring, the anger of American Fall and comes to cessation with American Reckoning...
"This piece focuses on songs from both records (Spring/Fall) that we felt maintain their relevance, even in the distraction politic Donald Trump America, where issues and truth are distorted in a seconds time. We also wanted to provide insight into our influences that lead us to write the records, that’s where the covers come in. They are songs that people may not expect to be influential to Anti-Flag records but either in their messaging or sonics they were tremendously impactful to us as individuals and hence the song writing process.
"We can not be knee jerk reactionary to a president that uses corporate media to endlessly lie, we created statements and art that we feel directly combat these tactics, American Reckoning has allowed us to revisit some of those previous statements and shine new light on them."
To mark the news, the quartet have unveiled their acoustic take on The Debate Is Over (If You Want It) and an accompanying video, which was filmed in their hometown and directed by Josh Massie.
Anti-Flag begin their US tour with Rise Against and AFI this weekend before heading to Europe in October for a co-headlining run of dates with Cancer Bats and guests Silverstein and Worriers. Tickets are on sale now.
Anti Flag Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue October 30 2018 - BIRMINGHAM Asylum
Wed October 31 2018 - BRISTOL SWX
Thu November 01 2018 - LONDON Heaven
Fri November 02 2018 - MANCHESTER Academy 2
Sat November 03 2018 - GLASGOW Garage
Mon November 05 2018 - BELFAST Foundry
Tue November 06 2018 - DUBLIN Whelans
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