At The Drive-In in • ter a • li • a

At The Drive-In are releasing "in • ter a • li • a", their first new album in 17 years on the 5th of May. The first (very promising) single, "Governed By Contagions" was released a few weeks ago and now they shared another song called "Incurably Innocent", along with the album news. The record will contain 11 new tracks and will be released on Rise Records. The title of the album means "among other things" in Spanish. It was produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, the band's guitarist and was recorded in Sound Factory Studios in Hollywood.

Vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala spoke to NME about "Incurably Innocent":

“a song about sexual abuse and being able to finally speak out”

And about the recording:

“We’d get up as early as we could and would go and do what I call ‘beating your head against the wall’. That was really hitting the ground running with figuring out how to learn to write with each other. We did that for a good chunk of time. In that monstrous heat, we would drive to that studio and go a little crazy. It wasn’t a very glamorous studio, it was bare bones. You just had to be forced to not fuck around, and not sit around and play video games like maybe some people do.”

“We had to have our shit together as a family. Sometimes it’s hard to be criminally misunderstood and thought of as these people out there just to get the money. And even if we were out there just to get the fucking money, we have families, you know? You’re not eternally 20 years old living in council flats, putting up posters of your favourite bands with fuck all to do. Life is fucking life. People need to remember the human condition about being in a band. You just to be patient and let a human being be a human being.”

“At The Drive-In came out in a period of time when Stereophonics and Limp Bizkit were huge. And there was this dark grey void – I’m not saying we filled it – but we were just a different colour at the time. I hope we don’t ever bow down to the single-based format. I hope we can at least be one of the last people fighting for LPs. It’s going to be hard to adapt to the way things are now, but it’s a great challenge.”

Drummer Tony Hajjar said:

“It was the most fun I’ve had in years. It was so great to be around people I care for and care for me. We had some awesome, tough moments. But at the end, they were still great. When it was done we went into the studio control room, the last day of recording, we all just hugged each other. I’m so proud of my brothers, proud that we’ve done this, proud that we still get to do this at any level.”

‘No Wolf Like The Present’
‘Continuum’
‘Tilting At The Univendor’
‘Governed By Contagions’
‘Pendulum In A Peasant Dress’
‘Incurably Innocent’
‘Call Broken Arrow’
‘Holtzclaw’
‘Torrentially Cutshaw’
‘Ghost-tape No.9’
‘Hostage Stamps’