White Lies share ‘Trouble In America’ from bonus edition of new album

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White Lies have shared a new song called ‘Trouble In America’, taken from an upcoming bonus edition of their 2022 album ‘As I Try Not To Fall Apart’.The trio’s latest album came out in February, and featured the singles ‘Blue Drift‘, ‘I Don’t Want To Go To Mars‘, ‘Am I Really Going To Die‘ and the album’s title track.On October 21, they will release a bonus edition of the album featuring four previously unreleased tracks.

Bassist Charles Cave explained: “We gave up on b-sides years ago, and go into making an album with the sole aim to fit the most cohesive 40mins of music onto two sides of a 12″ that we can.

Unfortunately that means some music is sidelined at the final hurdle.”Cave added: “Unfortunately that means some music is sidelined at the final hurdle. ‘Trouble In America’ was the hardest song to leave off.

It was written a couple of days after ‘Am I Really Going to Die’ and lives in the same world, and energy. Desperation funk?“In this song we jump between the mind of a serial killer, and his good Christian teenage daughter as she realises who…or what her father is and always has been. “My old man’s making trouble in America!