Post-hardcore duo GILT are releasing a new five-song EP in which “each song is a vignette, a ‘conceit’ in the literary sense, where one emotional reaction to death is explored…”
GILT have announced details of a new EP, Conceit, and shared the powerful Amethyst.
Due out on May 6 via Smartpunk Records, the duo's upcoming record consists of five songs all tackling the topic of grief, with vocalist Ash Stixx explaining: “We’ve spent a lot of time as an emo band talking about grieving and addressing pain, but Conceit is the first material we’ve made since my father passed, and there’s simply no way for it to not be about that in almost every regard because it affects every part of my life.
“Each song is a vignette, a ‘conceit’ in the literary sense where one emotional reaction to death is explored, bolstered by guest vocalists who were each chosen for their ability to stretch our ideas beyond what we could physically do. The title is a double entendre, these are all poetic metaphors, but the feeling of righteous rage has never come through more and the marriage between those two in Conceit is, to us, perfect.”
Of lead single Amethyst, Ash continues: “‘Wax wings remade ceramic’ was our big breakthrough lyric in writing the track. It’s an homage to ‘different mistakes in new and almost impressive ways’ from Through Mirrors. We wanted to explore that mindset but get even more bleak about our own limitations. Shaolin [Jay Webster] from UNITYTX absolutely crushed the task of conveying the unhinged freedom of not caring if you die, probably one of the most conceited feelings, and delivering that rage under a pile of literary and art school references to social politics. We spent two quarantine years studying the hardcore side of post-hardcore and we’re very proud to flex our new muscles, and lucky to have guests like Shaolin to push it to the next level. Amethyst is the bridge between some of the optimism we had about growth and forward motion from previous material into the absolute temper tantrum that will follow for the rest of Conceit.”
Listen to Amethyst below:
Check out the full tracklist:
1. Amethyst (ft. Shaolin G)
2. The Shape of Tools (ft. Kind Eyes)
3. Small Hollow Bones (ft. Syd Dolezal)
4. 209 (ft. Carson Pace)
5. Trophy Hunter (ft. Nat Lacuna)
And the EP artwork:
Catch GILT live at the following dates:
May
28 Berlin DE Decolonoize Fest
29 Brno CZ Vegalité
31 Bratislava SK Koncerty na garážach
June
1 Vienna AT Kramladen
3 Würzburg DE Kellerperle
4 Darmstadt DE Oetinger Villa
5 Münster DE Venue tbc
8 Antwerp BE Muziekcentrum Trix
9 Bristol UK Exchange (Basement)
10 Newport UK Le Pub
11 Leeds UK Temple of Boom
12 London UK The Queen’s Head, Brixton
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