Code Orange Announce New Album 'The Above', Share Billy Corgan Collaboration Take Shape
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Tim Saccenti
Code Orange have announced their fifth studio album.
The Pittsburgh heavyweights will drop 'The Above' on September 29 via Blue Grape Music, following up 2020's 'Underneath', and the remix record released earlier in 2023. The band's own Jami Morgan and Eric "Shade" Balderose produced the record, with Steve Albini handling some engineering work.
The news follows the singles The Game and Grooming My Replacement, with a new teaser arriving in the form of the groove-laden Take Shape, which retains their pummelling, aggressive edge, while offering a more alt-rock-orientated sound.
It features guest vocals from Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and isn't too dissimilar to songs written for the legendary band's classic albums 'Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness' and 'Siamese Dream'. Head below to view the surreal accompanying video, co-directed by frequent collaborator Max Moore and Morgan, who makes his directorial debut. He said:
"I have been working on the concept for this video, and others to come, for about a year and a half. I am so thankful to have been able to sit under the learning tree of Max Moore and our DP Eric Robbins. They allowed me to sit in on every minute of this process from hiring to scouting, all the way to final colouring. Being that deep was a revelation and I have found a new love along the way. I couldn’t be prouder of the result."
"We wanted the album to be able to wash over you with melody, aggression, and joy, but it was of equal importance that the closer you look, the more you are rewarded," he added about the record.
"It was to feel rooted in the “analogue” world, but with threads of digital reality binding things together. We wanted the sound and even the recording process itself to reflect that edict, so we enlisted Steve Albini at Electrical Audio to get the most real and raw version of the band possible, even recording us all at once in a room together for the first time in our career."
'The Above' tracklist:
1. Never Far Apart
2. Theatre Of Cruelty
3. Take Shape (feauring Billy Corgan)
4. The Mask Of Sanity Slips”
5. Mirror
6. A Drone Opting Out Of The Hive
7. I Fly
8. Splinter The Soul
9. The Game
10. Grooming My Replacement
11. Snapshot
12. Circle Through
13. But A Dream…
14. The Above
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