LICE sign to AD 93 and announce new album, Third Time At The Beach

Speaking on the record, the band say: “This album’s about trying to understand the world and everything in it: history, science and the way we explain it all to each other. It’s a celebration of feeling confused or intimidated by the processes that shape our lives.”

Of the album’s lead single LICE explain: “This song is about realising you’ve reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world, and feeling confused and frustrated. After visiting some key moments in the history of language, science and the human eye, we arrive at a campsite: where two shipwreck survivors are about to have a fight.”

The forthcoming album is a three-part epic exploring our struggle to better understand the world around us, and is set to follow their 2021 debut, WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear.

The first phase presents the child being introduced to the world, hammered into shape through prevailing culture, and realising they have reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world, meanwhile the second is a disorientating, alien sequence: re-evaluating fundamental concepts including money, time, nationhood and language. In the third, the individual embraces these new ideas – granting them a changed understanding of the world, and more agency in the path they take through it.

Tracklist:

1. Unscrewed
2. White Tubes
3. Red Fibres
4. To The Basket
5. Wrapped In A Sheet
6. Scenes From The Desert
7. Mown In Circles
8. Fatigued, Confused
9. Third Time At The Beach
10. The Dance