Transcontinental post-hardcore powerhouse GALLEONS are proud to announce the release of their brand new highly anticipated album ‘Violent Delights’, out now via Famined Records.
Blending elements of post-hardcore, progressive rock, and various other experimental soundscapes, ‘Violent Delights’ promises to be an overall explosive listen.
“Violent Delights is basically our take on a paradoxical toxic romance. Not just in terms of love but also things that people tend to romanticize in life and treat differently to how they should be, just because they’re familiar. Even if it’s doing more harm than good. It starts off being delightful and fun and by the end it becomes abrasive and existentially contemplative.
The theme of the album wasn’t really set in stone from the start, but as we kept developing demos I noticed that there was a duality to the sounds that were being written. Max usually writes more of the emo and sadder sounding stuff, not always, but most of the time. Just because we both like that sound the most in general. Then Eugene usually writes a lot more of the upbeat cuts like Yakisoba, Vagabond and Violent Delights, but he can also write some pretty emo tracks like Russian Roulette and Lament. I wanted to find a way to make that split work thematically and holistically with the artwork (since the artwork came before even the name was confirmed), so I needed a title that was similar to “sweet & sour” but not so on the nose. I was looking through Shakespeare poems, quotes and plays, because he tended to write a lot of things like that, then the Romeo & Juliet quote “These violent delights have violent ends” stuck out to me. So due to “violent” and “delight” being basically polar opposites, but also rolling off the tongue really nicely, I went with it for the album and it seemed to unify everything we’d been writing.
After that Max and I planned out the album structure and he chose how the songs should best flow. I think I mentioned at some point that I wanted to try and have the album go from “delight to violence” in a sense. So even though the songs technically flow by their key and tuning, and were chosen in that order, it actually worked out perfectly because all the tracks I consider “delights”, or love songs/bittersweet songs, are all loaded in the first half. When you hit Deadman Wonderland it transitions into “violence” and you start getting the more emo or love lost and darker cuts lyrically. That’s the beauty of the album in my opinion.”
Tom Byrne, vocals
01. You Who Swallowed A Falling Star
02. Kiss The Sky
03. Vagabond
04. Kismet
05. Blue Lagoon
06. Violent Delights
07. Cashmere
08. Yakisoba Dare
09. Deadman Wonderland (ft. Ryo Kinoshita)
10. Russian Roulette
11. The Downtown Dinosaur Gang Pt. 3
12. Lament
13. Dungeon Dweller (ft. Craig Owens)
14. Nothing Natural
15. Crybaby (ft. Andrew Michael Wells)
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