Council Records proudly unveils a split 7″ that binds together two distinct yet kindred forces: The True Faith and Demmers. This release breathes with restless urgency, two voices threading their own discord and desire into a shared canvas of atmospheric, guitar-laden intensity.
Philadelphia’s The True Faith offers Can’t Be Sure, a four-minute surge of longing and resolve, where soaring synths and searing guitars collide in a fevered dance of doubt and defiance. A natural step forward from their previous offerinds, the track’s ringing guitars, urgent vocals and strong percussion calls to mind the driving force of The Sound, early U2, and the brooding shimmer of The Chameleons.
Recorded under the deft hands of Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC, it stands as both an evolution and a reckoning—an offering for those who find solace in tension, and release in resonance. The True Faith’s music is a reflection of the complexities of life and the depth of emotions that comes with the experience of being human. The band’s willingness to delve into often-uncomfortable subjects sets them apart as they challenge listeners to confront their own struggles, and to seek meaning in the chaos of existence.
Across the Delaware River, where the highways cut through burial grounds and dreams dissolve into the haze of factory smoke, Demmers takes shape. New Jersey breeds its own kind of gloom, and Jerad Mione took to it like a prophet in exile. In the fall of 2023, he began sculpting what would become Demmers, drawing from the brittle beauty of The Cure, the grandeur of The Chameleons, the modern urgency of Bloc Party and Chain Cult. With the raw instincts of punk and the precision of experience, he enlisted Tommy McGreevy and Matt Olsson, forging songs not for escape, but for survival.Leave It Alone thrashes against itself; a fevered pursuit, a restless chase, the weight of ghosts pressing on the mind, on the marrow. There is no relief, no reprieve—desire and destruction coil together, a dance too bitter to quit, too ruinous to sustain. The trenches are deep, the enemy is familiar; self-consuming, self-inflicted, a species built to prey upon its own. Guitars shimmer like broken glass; melodies stretch taut, tight as wires before the snap. The track flickers between Spandau Ballet’s sharp-edged sweetness and Soft Kill’s storm-thick dirge, a voice calling out through static, through neon, through the dull glow of another night without sleep.
Recorded with Ed Auletta and Matt Olsson at North End Recording Studio and mixed by John Naclerio at Nada Recording Studio, Leave It Alone carries the weight of memory and the sharp edge of the present. Demmers does not linger in nostalgia; they sharpen it, turning the past into something untamed, something that presses forward, relentless and restless, unwilling to be left behind.
Listen to Can’t Be Sure/Leave It Alone below. You can also order the album, out now via Council Records, here.
Catch The True Faith and Demmers live on tour in support of this record:
- February 14th: Wild Air Beerworks – Asbury Park, NJ
- February 15th: Synthicide at TV Eye – Brooklyn, NY
- February 16th: Pie Shop – Washington, DC
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