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Halsey had hinted about it back in July and now fans can finally listen; Bring Me the Horizon just released a new EP.
Besides featuring the singer-songwriter, on the collection of eight tracks are collaborations with Lotus Eater, happyalone, Toriel, Yonaka and Bexey.
You may need to take a breath to say the title though: Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO.
The new EP is available on all streaming platforms and features some pretty lengthy songs.
1. Steal Something. – 10:11
2. Candy Truck/You Expected: LAB Your Result: Green – 7:15
3. A Devastating Liberation – 4:40
4. ¿ – 5:13
5. Underground Big {HEADFULOFHYENA} – 24:05
6. “like seeing spiders running riot on your lover’s grave” – 6:38
7. Dead Dolphin Sounds ‘aid brain growth in unborn child’ Virtual Therapy/Nature Healing 2 Hours – 10:09
8. ±ªþ³§ – 7:18
At 58 words in length, Music to listen to~ isn’t even that long of a title compared to Chumbawamba. Remember them? “I get knocked down, but I get up again…”. Their penultimate studio album was called:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won