
HMLTD announce second album with lead single "Wyrmlands"
South London’s HMLTD have shared news of their upcoming second full-length The Worm, and have unveiled the lead single "Wyrmlands" to accompany the announcement.
"Wyrmlands" is the group’s first new material since 2021's "Don't Leave Me", and lands with a video directed by lead vocalist Henry Spychalski.
Spychalski says of the new single, ""Wyrmlands" tells the story of a guerrilla resistance movement against the worm. The lyrics recount their tales of subversion and subterfuge: counter-offensives, tortured confessions and haunting vignettes of the strange new land in which they find themselves."
HMLTD’s The Worm album was created over two years, and features 47 different musicians including a gospel choir and a 16-piece string orchestra. It’ll follow their 2020 debut album West of Eden.
Spychalski adds of the album, "We’re told to believe that anxiety and depression are purely material and biological - like a parasitic worm that can be removed with the right treatment. I think that really these conditions reflect the world that surrounds us - like colonies that a far bigger worm has made in each of us - the psychological havoc wreaked by our inescapable capitalist reality and looming apocalypse it has created."
Tracklist:
- Worm's Dream
- Wyrmlands
- The End Is Now
- Days
- Saddest Worm Ever
- Liverpool Street
- The Worm
- Past Life (Sinnerman’s Song)
- Lay Me Down
"Wyrmlands" is out now. HMLTD’s The Worm album will arrive via Lucky Number on 7 April, and is available to pre-order now. They’ll play London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on 18 and 19 May. Visit hmltd.org for tickets.
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