Nearly a decade after captivating international audiences with their 2015 breakthrough album ‘Departure Songs’—featuring the fan-favorite “A Gallant Gentleman” (notably featured in Ricky Gervais’ Netflix show After Life)—Australian post-rock visionaries We Lost The Sea return with their long-awaited fifth studio effort, ‘A Single Flower’. The album will be released on July 4 via Dunk! Records (EU), Bird’s Robe (AUS), Translation Loss Records (USA), and New Noise (China).
Arriving five years after the critically acclaimed ‘Triumph & Disaster’—a release that uncannily mirrored the chaos of the years that followed—‘A Single Flower’ expands the band’s cinematic palette. The record is a meditation on quiet devastation and fragile beauty, described by the band as “a quiet ruin of things lost and things that never were… Yet in the stillness of despair, the nameless rose. Not for hope, nor for meaning, but because something in the marrow of our bones whispered that to rise was the only rebellion left.”
The album features a guest appearance by Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You! Black Emperor), whose contribution adds emotional weight and atmospheric depth. To mark the announcement, the band has unveiled a powerful 10-minute video for the lead single, “A Dance With Death”—a sweeping, cinematic piece that encapsulates the record’s emotional and thematic core.
“The world lay wrecked before us, a quiet ruin of things lost and things that never were. The mornings came like the grinding of old gears, a slow turning toward some unknowable purpose. And yet, in the stillness of despair, the nameless rose.
Not for hope, nor for meaning, but because something in the marrow of our bones whispered that to rise was the only rebellion left.”
…Tracklist…
- 01 If They Had Hearts
- 02 A Dance With Death
- 03 Everything Here Is Black And Binding
- 04 Bloom (Murmurations At First Light)
- 05 The Gloaming
- 06 Blood Will Have Blood
