Knifeplay - What Is Truth? - 2CD | Pre-Order 22.1.27

"What Is Truth?" is the third full-length album from Philadelphia based slowcore band Knifeplay, and their first for indie label Double Double Whammy. It marks a full departure from the band's shoegaze roots, moving into something more spacious and lyrics-forward: slow-burning arrangements rooted in slowcore and "apocalyptic folk". Where earlier Knifeplay records searched, this one arrives with intention. Written and recorded as a band in a room rather than built from bedroom demos, it is the group's most deliberate work to date. Songwriter Tj Strohmer turns away from purely personal confession toward something larger: a meditation on love and art as the only things that stay true while the modern world falls into decline. The result is heavy and unflinching, but never hopeless. Beneath the darkness runs a steady thread of resilience and, finally, redemption. Across the album, the music moves from reckoning to something like grace. "Love Song," the lead single, sits with the loneliness of carrying your own trauma and hoping to be understood and accepted anyway. The closing track, "Please Let the Children Be Artists," with French horn and flute drifting over mellotron strings, lands as a plea for healing, with love and art offered as a way back to ourselves.

Track Listing

Toil
Little Candle
Agonizing Mountain
Flowers Must Die
Joy
Close Your Eyes
Toil (Reprise)
Lord, Where Are You?
Stars
Love Song
Take the Light
Please Let the Children Be Artists

Specifications

• Artist: Knifeplay
• Album: What Is Truth?
• Format: 2CD
• Edition: 2CD
• Label: Double Double Whammy
• Catalogue Number: CDDDW118
• Barcode: 644110411822
• Genre: Indie & Alternative

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Please note: This is a pre-order item with a release date of 22.1.27. Orders containing pre-order items will be dispatched when all items are available. If you'd like in-stock items sooner, please place a separate order.