SPONGE RELEASES FINAL ALBUM ‘RECUERDA TU MUERTE’ OUT NOW
Sponge release their brand new studio album titled Recuerda Tu Muerte (Remember Your Death). Sponge’s thirteenth and final album, features 10 fresh tracks including the single “Self Inflicted Loss”.
Recorded in Detroit and produced by founding member/lead singer Vinnie Dombroski and guitarist Andy Patalan, Recuerda Tu Muerte is very much the frontman’s take on what he sees around him — still the “world of human wreckage” that he sang about in the band’s smash hit “Plowed,” but with the perspective of three-plus decades of both musical and life experience.
Stream and share the new album and watch the video for “Self Inflicted Loss” produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (the production house behind Robot Chicken, Titan Maximum and Buddy Thunderstruck).
Recuerda Tu Muerte, Dombroski acknowledges, is a dark title. Darkness is something Sponge has always done well, of course. The first thing most people heard from Sponge more than three decades ago was Vinnie asking, “Will I wake up, some dream I made up?” – but rest assured there’s nothing artificial about the dream-come-true that’s been the story of the quintet during the past 32 years, for the band and its fans.
Over that time Dombroski and a shifting corps of Sponge musicians have released twelve studio albums and scored enduring alternative rock hits such as “Plowed,” “Molly (Sixteen Candles),” “Wax Ecstatic” and “Have You Seen Mary.” The music is at once of its time – as definitive an exemplar of mid-90s alternative rock as you can hope to hear – and timeless. Drop a needle anywhere in Sponge’s robust and eclectic catalog and it sounds like right now, with a muscular, guitar-driven attack driving Dombroski’s forceful vocals and evocative, heavyweight lyricism.
It’s not about finality, however; listening to Recuerda Tu Muerte’s 10 tracks, it’s clear Sponge has plenty left in the tank. “It almost feels like we’ve got another shot, in a way,” Dombroski says. “It’s the willingness of the guys in the band to get in the van and do this. Everybody gets along real well; they’re talented guys and decent people and willing to get into the vehicle. A lot of bands don’t do it like that anymore, but we still are able and willing to do it.”
The angry, punk-styled “Lead Gods” laments the plague of gun violence, and “Lost Pilots” is an elegy specifically for the late Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland. The psychedelic-tinged “Clearing All the Vultures Away” is about purging poisons from one’s life, while “Stealing Shadows” mines some dense, orchestrated sludge. But lest you think it`s all too heavy, there’s songs such as “Peckerwood” and “Beef Relief” that offer some semi-adolescent levity to the mix.
Recuerda Tu Muerte tracklisting:
1. Beef Relief
2. Loose Screw
3. Self Inflicted Loss
4. Monster
5. In Closing
6. Stealing Shadows
7. Lead Gods
8. Clearing All The Vultures Away
9. Lost Pilot
10. Peckerwood
SPONGE Tour Dates with Candlebox
OCT 2 – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA
OCT 3 – Bel-Aire Backyard – Spring Valley, NV*
OCT 4 – Marquee Theatre Phoenix, AZ
OCT 6 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
OCT 8 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
OCT 10 – Iron City – Birmingham, AL
OCT 11 – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN
OCT 13 – FIVE – Jacksonville, FL
OCT 14 – The Plaza Live – Orlando, FL
OCT 20 – The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD
OCT 21 – Electric City Buffalo, NY
OCT 22 – Roxian Theatre Presented by Citizens – Mckees Rocks, PA
OCT 24 – House of Blues – Cleveland, OH
OCT 25 – Penn’s Peak – Jim Thorpe, PA
OCT 26 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
OCT 28 – Citizens House of Blues – Boston, MA
OCT 29 – The Paramount – Huntington, NY
OCT 30 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
*w/ Lit (no Candlebox)
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