Codefendants have shared a new song from their upcoming album ‘LIFERS’, and invited a friend along to help them out.
The track is titled ‘Lonely Life’ and delves deeper into the different streams of musical inspiration that the band are pulling from.
A mesh of pit-spinning punk and breakneck rap, there is something for everybody hiding in the cracks. And with the addition of Sublime’s Jakob Nowell, absolutely losing his shit against such a chaotic music backdrop, it becomes an even more frantic and fantastical piece.
You never know which way this band are going to turn, or the mark they are going to leave on you, and that is as wonderful as music gets.
Julio “Ceschi” Ramos had this to say about the song’s themes, stating,“For me, these lyrics are about the alienation many of us feel in modern society, even as we’re more connected than ever through social media. There’s a sense of entrapment in a world where we’re constantly bombarded by noise—advertisements, countless celebrities, the beautiful, the grotesque. It’s a world where we’re almost forced to co-star in a performance, where even the political elite are bad actors in an exaggerated, seemingly never-ending spectacle. The louder, brighter, and more ever-present that spectacle becomes, the more our very existence is commodified—and the more we lose ourselves, and our humanity, in the process. That’s the loneliness I’m touching on here.”
Whilst Jakob had this to add about the experience, explaining,“I know Fat Mike but I hadn’t met the other CODEFENDANTS guys yet. I went in watching my back. I came out knowing who had it.”
‘LIFERS’ will be released on April 03.
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