Name: Apocalypse Whenever
Brand: Bad Suns

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

277792

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

8714092777925

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277793

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8714092777932

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Bad Suns

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Epitaph

Bad Suns sound – dreamy '80s pastiche flanked by Stratocasters through cranked Vox amps, pulsing synths, and palpable rhythmic energy – that endeared listeners to the band in the first place, and their fourth LP, <i>Apocalypse Whenever</i>, uses that musical foundation as the jumping-off point for their next evolution.

Conceived as "the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't yet exist," the 13- track album, helmed by longtime producer Eric Palmquist (MUTEMATH, Thrice) at his Palmquist Studios and the band's North Hollywood rehearsal spot, is more conceptually rigorous than anything they've ever attempted – but no less compelling or accessible. "We also knew we wanted the album to have a through-line, a story from beginning to end,"frontman Christo Bowman explains, so the band did what any good directors would: They assembled a mood board, filtering their neo-noir version of Los Angeles through the dreamlike haziness of author Haruki Murakami, the futuristic air of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Blade Runner, and the lifted cinematography of Spike Jonze's HER.

These disparate influences don't just offer <i>Apocalypse Whenever</i> an expanded palette of sonic choices to colour Bad Suns' airtight hooks – they help give the songs an emotional complexity that works on a multitude of levels depending on how listeners choose to receive them.

Apocalypse Whenever

Music GB