Southern California post-hardcore band MOVEMENTS — Patrick Miranda, vocals; Ira George, guitar; Spencer York, drums; and Austin Cressey, bass — dropped the brand new single "Afraid to Die." It's the first taste of new music since the band's latest album RUCKUS!, which arrived in summer 2023 via Fearless Records. Get the album, produced by Will Yip, here.
Watch the official "Afraid to Die" music video below.
Movements' push and pull style of post-hardcore, defined by dissonant, tension and release guitar work, thunderclap percussion, and frontman Patrick Miranda's heartfelt lyrics and vocals, is perfectly executed on "Afraid to Die." The anthemic track is full of frantic energy with an ever-so-subtle '80s influence threaded through the song.
"With "Afraid to Die,' we were able to take the energy that was in RUCKUS!, and fine-tune it by exploring different realms of what this band can be and what our music can sound like, and I think we did a good job of that with this song," says Miranda. "Sonically, it's so different than anything we've ever done, and yet I think it still pulls on the heart strings as a lot of our older music does. This song is energetic and bouncy, and I can see it being a really fun song to play live and I can't wait to start doing that!"
Movements are headed over to the UK for tour later this month and the band will be back on the road in the U.S. this September. They have several key festivals on deck, including When We Were Young. All upcoming dates are below!
PHOTO CREDIT: Anthony Purcella
MOVEMENTS ON TOUR:
FESTIVAL:
6/22 — Tahoe,NV — Tahoe Is for Lovers Festival*
WITH TURNOVER + QUEEN OF JEANS:
9/4 — Baltimore, MD — Rams Head Live
9/6 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theatre
9/7 — Cincinnati, OH —Ohio Is For Lovers*
9/9 — Albany, NY — Empire Live
9/10 — Bethlehem, PA — MusicFest Café
9/11 — New Haven, CT — College Street Music Hall
9/13 — Montreal, QC — Beanfield Theatre
9/14 — Ottawa, ON — Bronson Centre
9/15 — London, ON — London Music Hall
9/17 — Fort Wayne, IN — Piere's
9/19 — Grand Rapids, MI — Intersection
9/20 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee
9/21 — Minneapolis, MN — Myth Live
9/23 — Winnipeg, MB — Park Theatre
9/25 — Edmonton, AB — Union Hall
9/26 — Calgary, AB — The Palace Theatre
9/28 — Vancouver, BC — Pearl
9/29 — Spokane, WA — Knitting Factory
10/12 — Austin, TX — Austin City Limits Festival*
10/19 — Las Vegas, NV — When We Were Young Festival*
10/20 — Las Vegas, NV — When We Were Young Festival*
*FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
ABOUT MOVEMENTS:
It's been a whirlwind few years for Movements as evidenced by the fact that band's 2020 album No Good Left to Give debuted at #3 on the Alternative chart and their streams have doubled since then with 300 million total streams in the U.S. alone. However, despite their success, the Southern Californian act have constantly reinvented themselves since forming in 2015 and the band's third full-length RUCKUS! sees the post-hardcore quartet taking their sound to expansive and sometimes unexpected places. Produced by longtime collaborator Will Yip (Circa Survive, Code Orange), the album fuses post-hardcore and punk influences with a healthy dose of pop songcraft to create an album that defies scene conventions in favor of something wholly unique. In order to accomplish this, the band made three extended trips to Yip's Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, to write and record the collection of songs that would end up as RUCKUS! "I truly don't believe that it could have been a more streamlined process and I don't think we've ever written music that's as good as what we put together for this record," Miranda explains. RUCKUS! sees the band integrating decidedly different influences such as Gorillaz and Strokes into their sound to challenge people's preconceptions.
