The Lawrence Arms haben mit „Skeleton Coast“ ihr erstes neues Album seit sechs Jahres angekündigt. Dies wird am 17. Juli via Epitaph Records auf den Markt kommen. Mit „PTA“ stellt die Punkrock-Band außerdem einen neuen Song vor.
Die insgesamt 14 Songs hat die Band in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Langzeitproduzenten Matt Allison innerhalb von zwei Wochen aufgenommen, allerdings erstmals in den Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas. Sänger und Gitarrist Chris McCaughan kommentiert:
„It was kind of like album camp in the sense that we were in this very remote setting for two weeks and really focusing on making the record. That was a very different experience for us because we’ve always made our records in Chicago which is home and all the things about home are in the way.”
Zum Album sagt er:
“For a band who has been around as long as us, this is about as urgent of a record as we could make. It may be kind of dark but it’s really about searching for light in the darkness and finding it, as small as those moments may seem. That’s sort of where we’re at: Collecting the scraps of things that could make for a bearable existence in dark times.”
