Tours: Lifetime posts new blog, adds record release shows

As the release for their long-awaited new album approaches, Lifetime's Dan Yemin has posted a new blog discussing the sound of the record as well as filling out the list of record release shows.

We have a new album coming out in two weeks. We wrote the songs in 6
months, as opposed to the two years it took to write "Jersey's Best
Dancers". We recorded the album in three weeks, as opposed to the three days
it took to record "Hello Bastards". As you can see, some things are
different, and some things are the same.

I feel like the music, and
relationships between the five of us that fuel that music, have remained
much the same, but hopefully have matured too. Same old super-fast hardcore
pop songs. Same weird mix of Gorilla Biscuits, Jawbreaker, Green Day, Elvis
Costello & the Attractions, 7 Seconds, Dag Nasty. Same
less-obvious-but-no-less-intense obsessions with the Smiths, the Cure,
Superchunk, Weezer. Same themes of love and loss, & love of music. New
themes as well.

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Hey everybody. I'm getting really excited and really nervous all at
once. We have a new album coming out in two weeks. We wrote the songs in 6
months, as opposed to the two years it took to write "Jersey's Best
Dancers". We recorded the album in three weeks, as opposed to the three days
it took to record "Hello Bastards". As you can see, some things are
different, and some things are the same.

I feel like the music, and
relationships between the five of us that fuel that music, have remained
much the same, but hopefully have matured too. Same old super-fast hardcore
pop songs. Same weird mix of Gorilla Biscuits, Jawbreaker, Green Day, Elvis
Costello & the Attractions, 7 Seconds, Dag Nasty. Same
less-obvious-but-no-less-intense obsessions with the Smiths, the Cure,
Superchunk, Weezer.

Same themes of love and loss, & love of music. New
themes as well. We're not at each other's throats anymore, and we
communicate pretty well these days. Most of us are married, some of us have
kids, jobs, etc.

We're really fucking proud of this record, and I really
think that you'll love it too. I'm grateful to all of you, the old-heads
and the new kids, all of you who supported us and still support us, who gave
us a thumbs up when we decided to come back, who stuck by us through all the
bizarre rumours, music journalist speculation, and internet shit-talking.
I'm grateful to Ari, Dave, Pete, & Scott for hard work and inspiration, and
for getting better and wiser and gentler over the past 10 years, to our
wives, girlfriends, friends and families for the support.

We're playing 7 record release shows in the next month. We'll be
bringing some really rad bands with us, I think some of the best that the
punk/HC scene in the US has to offer right now. Have no fear, there will be
no pretty-boy mascara and hair gel crap. Just good music. I can't fucking
wait. Join us.