with you in spirit: Cloudy Lavender Vinyl LP

with you in spirit, the fourth Balance and Composure LP, is an arresting, atmospheric collection of melodic post-punk and towering rock. Due out October 4 on long-time collaborator and Grammy-nominated producer Will Yips Memory Music, its the bands first LP in eight years, and a thrilling full-length comeback after their four-year hiatus. It thunders and stirs, dipping between beautiful, crystalline arrangements and punishing, earth-shaking climaxes; in between all, a gripping, near-physical tension crackles and growls and grooves, waiting to rip open.

Its an intensely self-reflective record for vocalist and guitarist Jon Simmons, an uprooting and examination of the supports on which a life is built. Preemptive grief, wrestling with god and faith, familial responsibility, familial mortalitythese are the things Simmons was carrying while writing this material. Theyre also things he was trying, for better and worse, to avoid hence the records title.

with you in spirit feels like the work of songwriters reaching new heights, exploring new depths. Sometimes, the record itself feels like a band grappling with its own avoidance, its own mortality, and deciding to face these things the only way they know how. Balance and Composure are with us in spirit, yes, but in the flesh, too, for now.

Tracklist:

A1. restless
A2. aint it sweet
A3. any means
A4. cross to bear
A5. believe the hype

B1. lead foot
B2. sorrow machine
B3. a little of myself
B4. closer to god
B5. with you in spirit