{"id":973491,"date":"2019-11-14T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911975"},"modified":"2019-11-14T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:02:05","slug":"and-you-will-know-us-by-the-trail-of-dead-preview-new-album-with-dont-look-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-trail-of-dead-preview-new-album-with-dont-look-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2026And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Preview New Album With \u2018Don\u2019t Look Down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Austin alt-rock stalwarts \u2026And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead unveiled a new song, \u201cDon\u2019t Look Down,\u201d from their first album in six years, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories<\/i>, out January 17th via Dine Alone Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t Look Down\u201d is a bustling rock track carried by rushing drums and fuzzy guitars that complement the song\u2019s video, which co-frontman Conrad Keely directed, edited and produced. The clip boasts a psychedelic blend of animation and live action, and seems to jump between Austin and Cambodia, where Keely recently lived for five years.<\/p>\n

\u2026Trail of Dead began working on X <\/i>in 2018 after Keely returned from Cambodia, and in a statement he said the new record was partly about \u201cthe sadness of moving away from a place that I loved.\u201d Keely added the album was also inspired by Steven Pressfield\u2019s book, The War of Art<\/i>, and grapples with the intricacies of his creative process: \u201cI feel like I\u2019m writing pop music, it\u2019s just not Top 20 pop,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would\u2019ve grown up with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2026Trail of Dead co-founder Jason Reece added that the album also draws from artists like Talk Talk, Killing Joke and Laurie Anderson, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s definitely the idea of loss, leaving someone or something important in your life, but it\u2019s more abstract.\u201d<\/p>\n

X <\/i>marks \u2026Trail of Dead\u2019s 10th album and follows their 2014 effort, IX<\/i>. Keely produced the album alongside engineer Charles Godfrey.<\/p>\n

\u2026Trail of Dead also announced a short North American tour in support of X<\/em>, which kicks off January 17th at the Masonic Lounge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles and wraps January 29th at Lowbrow Palace in El Paso, Texas. The shows will find Keely and Reece returning to the live format of their early years, when they alternated as drummer and frontman.<\/p>\n

X: The Godless Void and Other Stories<\/i> Tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cThe Opening Crescendo\u201d
2. \u201cAll Who Wander\u201d
3. \u201cSomething like This\u201d
4. \u201cInto the Godless Void\u201d
5. \u201cDon\u2019t Look Down\u201d
6. \u201cGone\u201d
7. \u201cChildren of the Sky\u201d
8. \u201cWho Haunts the Haunter\u201d
9. \u201cEyes of the Overworld\u201d
10. \u201cGravity\u201d
11. \u201cBlade of Wind\u201d
12. \u201cThrough the Sunlit Door\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026Trail of Dead Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 17 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lounge at Hollywood Forever
January 18 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
January 20 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
January 21 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
January 22 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
January 23 \u2013 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
January 24 \u2013 Fresno, CA @ Strummer\u2019s
January 25 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV @ Bunkhouse Saloon
January 27 \u2013 Tuscon, AZ @ 191 Toole
January 29 \u2013 El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin alt-rock stalwarts \u2026And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead unveiled a new song, \u201cDon\u2019t Look Down,\u201d from their first album in six years, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories, out January 17th via Dine Alone Records. \u201cDon\u2019t Look Down\u201d is a bustling rock track carried by rushing drums and fuzzy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:13:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}