Boston-based atmospheric hardcore band, My Fictions, recently announced that their new album, Touch Of Glass, is arriving August 23 via 1126 Records. They also shared their track, “Cold Streak?” towards the end of July, along with a music video. Keep reading below to watch it and find out more.
Vocalist Bryan Carifio dropped this keen insight about the album as a whole: “It’s not something I’d throw on a marketing sticker, but the best way I can describe it is as ‘bad mood music’ — not something that a listener particularly wants to listen to, but rather needs to hear to match how they’re feeling at a given time. It’s a heavy record, both sonically and lyrically. A lot of time went into making it. A lot of procrastination and stress on my part made it more difficult than it should have been. Now that it’s done, I hear these songs and feel like it’s the most complete representation of what My Fictions has tried to be as a band.”
My Fictions began around the Boston-area in the distant memory of the early 2010s. The band cut their teeth making noise in basement venues across the region. A handful of EPs and split releases honing in on the band’s aggressive and atmospheric sound preceded their 2014 full-length Stranger Songs. Their debut album served as the best summation-to-date of what has become the My Fictions formula: songs must be lyrically dense, sonically pummeling, and emotionally tolling.
After years of inactivity, a revitalized version of the band returned in 2021 with a six-song comeback EP. Time Immemorial brought new, heavier elements into the My Fictions sound while retaining the strange and suffocating undercurrent of earlier offerings. They followed suit by hitting the road with metalcore legends Overcast and Providence-based split partners Dreamwell on separate runs, then carried this energy into Connecticut’s Silver Bullet Studios late last year to work for the first time with album engineer and producer Chris Teti (The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Fiddlehead). Inspired by records like Slipknot‘s Iowa, Alice in Chains‘ Dirt, and Converge‘s No Heroes, the aim was always to create an album-long sense of dread with the songs they were building together from a distance, even if it took months to take shape.
“I feel compelled to pull from my lowest moments to make something that matches the intensity of the songs,” Carifio remarks on the process of lyric-writing. That pain-staking process has resulted in the band’s most intense collection of songs to date — Touch of Glass is a record designed to devastate.