Scattered Purgatory announce new album, Post Purgatory
Taiwanese band Scattered Purgatory have returned from a three-year hiatus to announce their upcoming album, Post Purgatory, alongside the release of lead single "Wunai".
“The feeling of loss and uncertainty has later become the inspiration of this record, and ‘time’ is the main theme – it can heal or it can destroy,” Lu Li-Yang and Lu Jiachi — the duo behind Scattered Purgatory — explain of their upcoming third album. The new single, "Wunai", translates to feeling helpless — tying in with the album's broader reflections on love, loss, and the human experience captured multilingually in Taiwanese, traditional Chinese, and English.
Post Purgatory follows Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean, released in 2014 and Sua Hiam Zun, released in 2022, and sees Scattered Purgatory incorporate the influence of Hokkien, Mando pop, and trip-hop.
Tracklist:
聚牙地獄 — Atata Naraka
無奈 — Wunai
風之腦 — Ephemeral Mind
空笑夢 — Dreaming in Void
月之下 — Moonquake
雲之上 — Above the Clouds
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海市蜃樓 — Ocean City, Mirage Tower
Post Purgatory is due for release on 30 January via Guruguru Brain
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