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+ FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM TIME ITSELF OUT NOW
April 14, 2022
The time is now. Nine years in the making, Children Collide released their fourth studio album Time Itself in August 2021 via Spinning Top Records. Expect a complex and provocative rock record that explores wider spectrums and multitudes with the kind of fearlessness that put Children Collide on the map to begin with. The LP arrived with the propulsive new track Turrets.
Turrets detonates with raw power, frenetic urgency and conveys the relentless energy from the Australian three-piece. Directed by Lord Fascinator and filmed by Nico White and Dave Meagher, the psychedelic video for Turrets is the final in a trilogy made in the absence of touring.
“Turrets was first pulled together in a jam with Heath and Ryan at Pink Floyd’s old studio Brit Row with producer Youth during our first attempt at our second album Theory of Everything. Our label and management at the time convinced us to scrap it much to my chagrin. After the jam I sat upstairs and wrote some of my favourite lyrics but I’m not sure I could tell you what the fuck I’m on about as a whole. It’s just 20 mini stream-of-consciousness philosophies like ‘Sailing down the river Nihilism’ and ‘Turrets are where it’s at.’ Sometimes the meaning comes later I guess,” says frontman Johnny Mackay of the track.
Watch ‘Turrets’
Recorded by Loren Humphrey at Diamond Mine & Stockholm Syndrome in New York City, Time Itself is Children Collide’s long-awaited fourth studio album. The album features the snarling, Nirvana-esque Return to Femmes, the fuzzed-out charge of opener Man of the People and the twirling, acid-tinged Trampoline to contend with – the latter of which Mackay proudly describes as “one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written.” The sprawling six-and-a-half-minute wig-out of Mind Spider too, serves as a strange bedfellow to the bouncy, mosh-ready Uh Oh – and yet, all of them make perfect sense as Children Collide songs. Time Itself is available now in digital formats as well as limited edition white 12” vinyl here.
Versatility and musical freedom has always served as the band’s modus operandi. It’s why Mackay loved playing with them in the first place, and why he eventually wound up under the moniker again. “Children Collide albums always feel like 12 points of a clock or a compass,” he says. “More an entire 360 degree entity than a single story. Exploration in all directions.”
Following the release, the Australian three-piece will take their epic and frenzied live show on the road on a national 13-date headline tour in March and April.
With their rocketship packed and a new line-up locked in, the voyage of Children Collide has launched.
About Children Collide
A live phenomenon, Children Collide have played sets at SXSW, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Groovin The Moo, Yours and Owls and the Big Day Out. They’ve performed countless sold-out headline shows across the nation in addition to dates in London, Paris, LA, New York and Tokyo.
Time Itself will follow the twice ARIA-nominated band’s third studio album Monument, released in 2012. It was another enduringly popular LP, following 2008‘s The Long Now and 2010’s Theory Of Everything, which debuted at #5 on the ARIA album chart and claimed the triple j feature album. Their repertoire includes some of the most well-loved Australian singles of the past decade, a roll call that includes Social Currency, Skeleton Dance, Chosen Armies, Loveless and triple j hottest 100 entries Farewell Rocketship, Jellylegs and My Eagle.
CHILDREN COLLIDE – TOUR DATES
Friday 25 March – Newcastle Hotel, Newcastle NSW
Thursday 7 April – Studio 56, Miami Marketta, Gold Coast QLD*
Friday 8 April – The Zoo, Brisbane QLD
Saturday 9 April – Eleven Dive Bar, Maroochydore QLD
Thursday 14 April – The Eastern, Ballarat VIC*
Friday 15 April – Barwon Club, Geelong VIC*
Saturday 16 April – Howler, Melbourne VIC*
Sunday 17 April – Jive Bar, Adelaide SA
Friday 22 April – Mojos, Fremantle WA
Saturday 23 April – Lynott’s, Perth WA
Sunday 24 April – Out of the Woods Festival, Busselton WA
Thursday 28 April – La La La’s, Wollongong NSW
Friday 29 April – OAF, Sydney NSW*
Saturday 30 April – UC Hub, Canberra ACT*
*With special guests Sky City Gold
CHILDREN COLLIDE
New track – Turrets – OUT NOW
New single – Man of the People – OUT NOW
New album – Time Itself – OUT NOW
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