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PRESIDENT's debut album is almost here! They're celebrating the announcement of Blood Of Your Empire with a new single, Doom Loop, ahead of their Slam Dunk shows this weekend.
PRESIDENT’s hotly-anticipated debut, titled Blood Of Your Empire, is on the horizon.
The album is arriving on September 4 via Atlantic Records and ahead of their show at Slam Dunk this weekend, the anonymous collective have shared a new single, Doom Loop.
"The song is really about the strange tragedy of time — how we spend our lives chasing it, wasting it, and fearing it — only to realise its value once a moment is gone," President says. "It's a reminder for people to be present while they are actually living their lives, not just remembering them afterwards."
Listen to Doom Loop below:
On the album itself, they add: "Blood Of Your Empire was born out of my own struggle with existential crisis and trying to make sense of belief, mortality, and humanity's relationship with faith. Religion has inspired incredible compassion, purpose, and beauty in the world — but it has also been responsible for unimaginable suffering and bloodshed throughout history.
“This album lives in the tension between those two truths. Writing it became a way for me to confront the fear, confusion, and questions I've carried for years, and turn them into something I'm truly proud of."
The artwork for Blood Of Your Empire notably features PRESIDENT’s logo alongside the Eugène Delacroix painting The Battle of Poitiers, which hangs in the Louvre.