Rise Against Share New Single ‘Talking To Ourselves’

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In anticipation of their upcoming release this Friday, Rise Against have released a new single ‘Talking To Ourselves’.

This Friday the multi-Gold and Platinum punk rock band will release their ninth studio album via Loma Vista Recordings. In recognition of the album’s release, and Rise Against’s decades-long social justice and political activism that has long informed their music, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has proclaimed June 4 “Rise Against Day in Chicago,” the city where the band originally formed in 1999, and where two of the band members still call home.

With its surprising pop candour, the new song ‘Talking To Ourselves’ is a stand-out song about wanting to be heard and wondering if anyone is listening.

Over the years the band have been identified – by many journalists – as being ‘controversial’ or ‘radical’, with their music being described and ‘Bold’ and ‘Brave’. But Tim McIlrath – the band’s lyricist – begs to differ, and gives ‘Talking To Ourselves’ as a prime example of that point of view.

“I’ve never thought of our songs as ‘brave’ or ‘bold,” McIlrath says “I think of them as just common sense. When you feel that no one is listening to you, you tend to talk louder, and when you feel no one notices you, you start doing things to get their attention. That’s what this song is about.”

Check out the song’s live music video here:

The band recently announced a short run of stripped-back intimate in-store events for November 2021. Check the dates below:

June
9th – Zoom Q&A and Acoustic Session w/ Rough Trade
November
15th – Key Club – Leeds w/ Crash Records
16th – Chalk – Brighton w/ Resident Records
17th – Pryzm – Kingston w/ Banquet Records

Tickets + album bundles are on sale now, and can be purchased here.

Check out the tracklist to the band’s new album ‘Nowhere Generation’ here:

1. The Numbers
2. Sudden Urge
3. Nowhere Generation
4. Talking to Ourselves
5. Broken Dreams, Inc.
6. Forfeit
7. Monarch
8. Sounds Like
9. Sooner or Later
10. Middle of a Dream
11. Rules of Play

Check out the opening track, ‘The Numbers’ here: