The Men are sharing the second single, ‘Rose On Top Of The World’, from their upcoming album, which is due on March 2 via Sacred Bones Records. The Brooklyn-based band also celebrate their 10th anniversary this year. Vocalist & guitarist Nick Chiericozzi said the following about the new single "‘Rose On Top Of The World’ came out of a Spanish guitar lick, a radar weather map, a poem and maybe a few other things. It has a good title; one that creates a definite mental image but could really be about anything."

Drift is the seventh full-length by NYC rock polymaths The Men. The band’s last album, the self-released Devil Music, was the sound of a band who had been through hell hitting reset and looking to their roots to rediscover themselves. On Drift, The Men return to their longtime label Sacred Bones Records and explore the openness that Devil Music helped them find.

The immediately evident result of that exploration is the experimental quality of much of the material on Drift. Songwriters Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi chase their muses down a few dozen thrilling rabbit-holes over the course of the album’s nine tracks. The songs on Drift veer in a number of directions, but notably, almost none of them feature a prominent electric guitar. The lone exception, ‘Killed Someone’, is a rowdy riff-rocker, worthy of the finest moments of the band’s now-classic Leave Home and Open Your Heart albums. The rest of the album drives down stranger highways. ‘Secret Light’ is an improvisation based on an old piano riff of Perro’s. ‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ is a synth-driven dancefloor stomper for long after last call. ‘Rose on Top of the World’ and ‘When I Held You in My Arms’ are paisley-hued, psyched-out jams with big, beating hearts.

The album was recorded to 2" tape with Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices) at Serious Business Studios in Brooklyn. A whole pile of instruments was involved — synths, strings, sax, steel, harmonica, tape loops, on top of the usual guitar, bass, and drums. Unlike recent releases from The Men, there aren’t many overdubs on Drift — a reflection of the personalities of its makers becoming less frantic, Chiericozzi suggests. In fact, the band removed a lot of the additional parts they tried adding early on, giving the final product a bit of a ghostly feel. The songs on Drift took giant leaps and trips from their beginnings only to find the band returning to the first spark of creation.

Drift track list:

1. Maybe I'm Crazy

2. When I Held You In My Arms

3. Secret Light

4. Rose on Top of the World

5. So High

6. Killed Someone

7. Sleep

8. Final Prayer

9. Come To Me

See The Men live:

June 1, 2018: London, UK @ Oslo

Meet Addiktio, a group consisting of several of Norway’s top musicians. On March 9 they`ll release their debut album Verraton, but their first single is due already the first Friday of February. The song is called ‘Unelma’, which is actually the finish word for ‘dream’, and this track is in many ways the essence of Addiktio. It features the heavy guitar riff you love, the groovy drums, harmonically interesting twists, and it´s a dynamic journey from start to end.  ‘Unelma’ sounds both metallic and Radiohead-esque, making it a different treat than you´ve heard before.

Behind the trio Addiktio you`ll find Norwegian music elites regular henchmen and part of a new generation of session musicians. Together they have featured the Norwegian music scene for years. They`ve done rock, they`ve done jazz. Hell, they`ve even done pop, but make no mistake. These guys are metalheads to the bone, and hail from bands such as Shining and Benea Reach.

Now, as a trio, they have created an intricate and progressive symbiose right in the intersection between rock, jazz and metal. An ambient sound with huge soundscapes and with parallels from delicate melodies to contrasting mathematical nature. Håkon Sagens insisting and brutally confronting guitar playing, the backdrop of vintage bass and the drum-aesthetics from Thomas Gallatin and Ruben Oma, tears the listener between in-your-face-rock and uncontrolled but intricate expressions.