Thursday have shared their second new song in 13 years.
Following spring single Application For Release From The Dream, White Bikes offers the New Jersey post-hardcore legends' signature shimmering emo aesthetic and arrives alongside a video of the band recording the track at the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin.
The group shared some history about the song in a post on Instagram, writing:
"SURPRISE! We’ve been blown away by your support this year: you’ve bought our merch, come to our shows, streamed our music. In April we dropped our first song in over a decade. Then in June we had the opportunity to spend some time at Hansa studios in Berlin, where David Bowie wrote and recorded Heroes, where Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode and REM all made history. There are still magical places left in this world and Hansa is one of them. The result of this session — a song called White Bikes and a video documenting our time in Berlin — will start to appear online as the clock strikes midnight around the world tonight / tomorrow morning. Twenty five years to the day that we unveiled our first ever song, we are sharing our newest one.
"This is our gift to you this holiday season. We hope you love it as much as we do. White Bikes started with an idea from Norman Brannon, and you can hear his distinctive style all over this song. Stuart Richardson had the idea to produce the track like a nostalgic, upbeat, summertime version of 'War All the Time'. Geoff told us that the lyrics deal with the loss of a dear friend — one of the first people he ever played music with — who disappeared one day on his bike. This one means a lot to us for a lot of different reasons. We have no record label, we have no “team” behind this. But we have each and every one of you and that is all we've ever really needed in these 25 years… White Bikes on the side of the road."
Thursday's drummer Tucker Rule and bassist Tim Payne have also been busy with L.S. Dunes, alongside guitarist Travis Stever, also of Coheed And Cambria, Anthony Green of Circa Survive, and Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, whose second album, 'Violet', will arrive on January 31. They recently shared the new single, Machines.
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