The Voidz have announced ‘Like All Before You’, the band’s first album in six years.
In a cryptic teaser video, the band revealed the release date for the record for this September 2024’. The trailer is soundtracked by an instrumental ‘Overture’ filled with moody synths, which serves as the album’s opening track.
With the trailer, a minute-long monologue hints at the lore of the upcoming release. “The suffocating endless talk of oppressive men, with their like-minded, indifferent killers in the shadows, making a sham of storied values, ruling and deceiving the unlucky into their miseries since the dawn of society,” frontman Julian Casablancas drones.
“Soon we’ll be crusted and dusted like all before us. But now is the window. One has but to reach out beyond the crooked facade for knowledge. And it is all there, beyond the initial wall of lies they’ve built around us,” he continues.
“And we must hunt and forage in this digital wilderness. And cultivate the cunning and courage to exact upon the enemies of mankind, the positive and peaceful change of an emerging enlightened civilisation. Oh muse, tell us, when will the time of these bastards end?”
The track follows a number of singles which Casablancas and company have steadily dropped over the course of 2023. These included the spooky ‘Flexorcist’, which the band put out near Halloween and the metallic pop cut ‘Prophecy of the Dragon’, both of which the band combined into a 14-minute music video last October. Other tracks also included the ballad ‘American Way’, as well as the cut ‘All The Same’.
‘Like All Before You’ will mark the Voidz’ third full-length release. Their most recent effort was 2018’s ‘Virtue’, which followed their 2014 debut effort ‘Tyranny’. In a four-star review, NME’s Rhian Daly called the record an “interesting, unusual and thought-provoking” effort that didn’t “lose their eccentric inventor touch”, with “a handful of pop-leaning moments present among the boundary-pushing ones.”
Meanwhile, Julian Casablancas has continued to stay active as part of the Strokes. Last year, the band played All Points East in London alongside acts including Angel Olsen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Walkmen, Girl in Red and the Strokes. In a March show in support of Chicago congressional candidate Kina Collins, the Strokes dusted off several live rarities, including the ‘Room on Fire’ cut ‘You Talk Way Too Much’.