Alkaline Trio talk “apocalyptic” new album ‘Blood, Hair And Eyeballs’: “Humanity really needs to get its shit together”
nme.comAlkaline Trio have spoken to NME about their “apocalyptic” 10th album ‘Blood, Hair And Eyeballs’. Check out our interview with Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano below.‘Blood, Hair And Eyeballs’ is the first album Alkaline Trio have released since 2018’s ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ – and finally arrives this Friday (January 26).“Trio took a bit of a backseat for a while,” admitted Skiba, who joined Blink-182 in 2015 and released two albums with the pop-punk icons (2016’s ‘California’ and 2019’s ‘Nine’) before leaving to make way for the returning Tom DeLonge in 2022. “It’s been the longest break Alkaline Trio has taken from putting out a new album, so I felt like we owed our fans the best record we could make,” he said.“If we’re going to album 10, let’s make it fucking awesome,” continued Andriano. “We wanted it to be different.
We wanted it to be special. We didn’t see any point in making an Alkaline Trio record that we’ve already made. We want to move forward.”He contonued: “No matter what we do though, Alkaline Trio is going to seep in there.
As hard as we try sometimes, we can’t escape ourselves.”At first, the pair worked on demos separately, with Skiba telling NME in 2021 that he was pulling inspiration from The Strokes.
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