Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
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Studio album by
Alkaline Trio
ReleasedJanuary 26, 2024 (2024-01-26)
Recorded2023
StudioStudio 606, Los Angeles, California
Length35:48
LabelRise
ProducerCameron Webb
Alkaline Trio chronology
E.P.
(2020)		 Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
(2024)
Singles from Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
  1. "Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs"
    Released: October 17, 2023
  2. "Bad Time"
    Released: November 30, 2023
  3. "Versions of You"
    Released: January 4, 2024

Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs is the upcoming tenth studio album by American punk rock band Alkaline Trio. Set to be released on January 26, 2024, it is the band's final album with drummer Derek Grant following his departure in 2023.

It was recorded at Studio 606 and produced by Cameron Webb. It also marks the band's first release through Rise Records. Its almost six-year gap from Is This Thing Cursed? (2018) will mark the longest between two albums from the band to date.

The album was announced on October 17, 2023 alongside the release of its title track as the lead single. The band is also set to tour with Drug Church in support of the album.

Background

Alkaline Trio began writing new material for their next album in early 2022. While touring with Taking Back Sunday, Derek Grant revealed that they had been playing new songs at soundchecks, and were preparing to take the new songs in for recording soon.[1]

During the album cycle for Is This Thing Cursed?, Grant took a hiatus from the band which left him absent from live performances and studio appearances from 2018 to 2021. His first performance following his hiatus was at Slam Dunk Festival 2021 in Leeds, England. However, touring continued to take a toll on Grant following the COVID-19 pandemic, and by 2023, he decided to leave the band in focus of his mental health, graphics design, and music production.[2] Though he left prior to the albums announcement, it was revealed Grant completed his recording duties for the album as revealed in the credits for the initial singles.[3]

Shortly after Grant's departure, the band announced Atom Willard as their new drummer.[4] Willard previously toured with Alkaline Trio in 2001 and appeared in their music video for "Private Eye". He had also played with guitarist Matt Skiba in their band theHell, and the two had also recently started a new band, Lektron.

The album's title comes from a term used by Skiba's mother, who was once an emergency room nurse; "She and her co-workers referred to exceptionally busy nights as ‘blood, hair, and eyeballs.’"[5]

Writing and recording

Recording officially began in 2023 at Dave Grohl's Studio 606, which is where Skiba and Willard had recently recorded a joint single for Lektron.[6] Skiba stated that the trio had started to think about bands such as Nirvana, The Police and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and were excited to record in a studio "engineered for loud, live rock music." The band took a more collaborative approach to the recording and made sure to build the songs "from the ground up, in the same room which hasn’t happened since the band started."[7][8]

Skiba and bassist Dan Andriano were inspired by what they referred to as "apocalypse culture," and how bad news in modern culture creates so much fear in people.

“Without sounding trite, it’s the way that we get our information now through social media. There’s always been good and there’s always been horror, but it feels like the horror hits our doorsteps much quicker these days. It gives people the feeling that things are escalating horribly.” - Matt Skiba[7]

Release

The album was announced on October 17, 2023 alongside the release of the title track and its music video. This was accompanied by the announcement of a supporting tour with Drug Church.[9] The album's second single "Bad Time" was released on November 30, 2023.[10] The album's third single, "Versions of You", was released on January 5, 2024.

Tracklist

Track lengths taken from Qobuz.[11]

No.TitleLength
1."Hot for Preacher"3:45
2."Meet Me"3:54
3."Versions of You"3:13
4."Bad Time"2:56
5."Scars"3:28
6."Break"3:23
7."Shake with Me"3:58
8."Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs"3:01
9."Hinterlude"1:05
10."Broken Down in a Time Machine"3:03
11."Teenage Heart"4:04
Total length:35:48

Personnel

Alkaline Trio
Additional personnel[12]
Production
  • Cameron Webb – production, mixing
  • Andrew Alekel – engineering

References

  1. ↑ "Alkaline Trio On Taking Back Sunday Tour, 'Good Mourning' 20th Anniversary & New Music - Videos". Rock Sound Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  2. ↑ Trapp, Philip (2023-06-08). "Alkaline Trio Drummer Derek Grant Leaves the Band After 22 Years". Loudwire. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
  3. 1 2 https://open.spotify.com/album/3QgyHF06SLRbdwjk1cBxty
  4. ↑ "Alkaline Trio Name Their New Drummer Following Derek Grant's Exit". Loudwire. June 15, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Alkaline Trio Announce New Album, 2024 Tour Dates". 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  6. ↑ Neville (2023-05-30). "Hear two singles from Matt Skiba's new garage-punk supergroup Lektron". Alternative Press Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  7. 1 2 Sacher, Andrew (2023-10-17). "Alkaline Trio announce new LP & tour with Drug Church (new song & exclusive vinyl)". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  8. ↑ "Alkaline Trio return with new album, Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs". Kerrang!. 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  9. ↑ Punknews.org (2023-10-17). "Alkaline Trio to release new album, share video for title track, announce tour dates (US and CAN)". www.punknews.org. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  10. ↑ Ordonez, Eli (2023-12-04). "Listen to Alkaline Trio's heartfelt new single 'Bad Time'". NME. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  11. ↑ "Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs - Alkaline Trio". Qobuz. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
  12. ↑ Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs, retrieved 2023-10-18
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