Knuckle Puck Announce New Album “Losing What We Love” & Share Lead Single “The Tower”

Modern pop punk outfit Knuckle Puck have announced that their new album Losing What We Love will be released on the 20th October. Over the last thirteen years the band have nurtured their craft across three albums and have artfully balanced their emotional spectrum, trading in high-tempered and deeply introspective lyricism, but also cutting the tension with an underlying layer of optimism. But now, with the release of their fourth full length, Knuckle Puck are done sugarcoating life’s hard truths.  It is a record about coming to terms with exactly that. It is an attempt to lean into the transition between a high point in life to a low point. These songs are a tribute to the familiar while acknowledging that nothing can stay the same forever. 

Recorded with longtime producer Seth Henderson, Losing What We Love marks the band’s first album for Pure Noise Records. In many ways, it’s a throwback to their earliest days, not necessarily in sound, but in songwriting essence, tapping into the same collaborative magic they found in bedrooms and garages across Chicago’s south suburbs as teenagers. The group did far more in-studio writing than ever before, something that recalibrated their collective creative ethos while continuing to push their sound forward in ways exciting to both the band themselves and their listeners. Knuckle Puck have also released propulsive lead single, The Tower, that is wholly representative of this new (again) songwriting approach, recalibrating their collective creative ethos while continuing to push their sound forward.

“For a long time, we felt a responsibility to have this overwhelming hopefulness to our lyrics. This time around, we started writing more honestly with less intent to sound cool or hopeful. It feels like we’re in a bit of a losing battle with the state of the world, but in the past we’d say, ‘Oh, but it’s all OK!’ Now we’re saying, ‘No, we should be panicking.’ This record feels like more of an expression than a motivational speech. The Tower is a song about welcoming the inevitability of death, destruction and chaos. The world is bleak right now and this song is a reflection of that. It shows a darker side of our band than what we have let people see in recent years which was a big reason for choosing it as a single.”