{"id":2447646,"date":"2019-08-16T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=872619"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:20:40","slug":"highly-suspect-announce-new-album-with-song-about-paternity-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/highly-suspect-announce-new-album-with-song-about-paternity-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly Suspect Announce New Album With Song About \u2018Paternity Surprise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/9655521mW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Highly Suspect became a rare rock band to break through with 2016\u2019s <em>The Boy Who Died Wolf,<\/em> which <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> called \u201ca proud throwback to the muscular, glossed-up sludge of the post-Nirvana mid-Nineties.\u201d The Massachusetts band was championed by Lyor Cohen, who signed them to his record label, 300 Entertainment, and the band were nominated for two Grammys and played Coachella and Lollapallooza.<\/p>\n<p>The band are aiming higher on their third album <em>MCID<\/em>, out November 1st, embracing hip-hop with guest appearances by Young Thug, Tee Grizzley, and more. The band is also writing about more personal experiences. On the single, \u201c16,\u201d frontman Johnny Stevens wrote about about how his seven-year relationship fell apart when he learned that the child his girlfriend gave birth to was not his. \u201cIt took me .. seven years told hold you, one minute to lose you,\u201d Stevens howls in the song, \u201cWhere did I go wrong?\u201d It\u2019s a true story; the band said they wanted to channel the \u201cbetrayal and regret\u201d into music.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LxSIhXKc8U?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe album centers around themes of self-loathing, substance abuse, image issues, addressing my past and changing my future,\u201d Stevens says. \u201cWith a sprinkle of anti-Trump, false social media worship, heartbreak and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stevens tackles those insecurities on \u201cUpperdrugs,\u201d which is all gloom (\u201cI wanna sleep forever.\u201d) \u201c\u2019Upperdrugs\u2019 is a buck 20 on the highway and \u201916\u2019 is a Playstation 12,\u201d Stevens said in a statment. \u201cThere has never been an album like the one we\u2019re about to drop. I hope you grab the keys and take a ride somewhere by yourself, get so high your lips stick to your teeth until you crack a beer and zone on this front to back. It\u2019s time and YOU deserve it.\u201d The band kick off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlysuspect.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">first tour<\/a> in a year on August 22nd.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2xE866febM?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/highly-suspect-new-album-paternity-surprise-872619\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly Suspect became a rare rock band to break through with 2016\u2019s The Boy Who Died Wolf, which Rolling Stone called \u201ca proud throwback to the muscular, glossed-up sludge of the post-Nirvana mid-Nineties.\u201d The Massachusetts band was championed by Lyor Cohen, who signed them to his record label, 300 Entertainment, and the band were nominated [&hellip;]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:53:09","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}