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26 April 2024

Band: THE JANITORS
Who: Swedish peddlers of heavy drones
and fuzzed nightmares since 2004

New single: LIES

This is the second shared piece from the band’s upcoming,
2nd album, baptized An Error Has Occurred, out on 24 May.
Pre-order info here.

“Everything’s been fucked since David Bowie
or they started up the Hadron Collider.

This feeling is epitomised in the album’s title.

New album artwork

Marking over two decades of activity for the Swedish psych-rockers, the recording is informed by heartbreak and loss as well as the dismal state of the entire planet. For the band, these two polarities intertwine constantly: “What’s personal is political and vice versa.”

To channel their frustration and anger, the band revived certain songs they’d shelved during the pandemic. They added others, written since, that suited the mood of sticking
a middle finger up to the oppressive world around us. Whereas previous recordings were often layered up gradually, this time the full band (Henric Herlenius, Jonas Eriksson, Anders Thorell and Wilhelm Tengdahl) rehearsed intensely together before laying down everything live, over two days and nights, in a converted missionary church.

TUTV about Lies: This is pitch black psychedelia at its eerie and hallucinant
best. Macabre tension is in the air from start to finish on this Apocalyptic jam.

Lies creeps behind your back like a vicious serpent on a deadly mission.
A monstrous wall-of-psychotic sound surrounds your mind and turns it
upside down.

It all sounds very 2024 to my ears. Catastrophic wars, devastating human intolerance, mental and physical aggression, dark clouds everywhere as we know it. The light at the end of the tunnel gets smaller and smaller. Gloom and doom is just around the corner.

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