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DESCENDENTS to Release New Album ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’ on July 29, 2016; Stream New Song “Victim of Me”

Descendents are streaming the song “Victim of Me” from their newly-announced album, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, set for release on July 29 via Epitaph.

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Descendents have announced the details of their much anticipated new album, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, set for release on July 29 via Epitaph. A new song “Victim of Me” is available now. Descendents’ first Epitaph release since Everything Sucks in 1996, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, began taking shape after the band ended an extended hiatus to play live in 2010.

Though still tight, they lived apart: singer Milo Aukerman — whose cartoon rendering famously serves as the band’s logo — was now living in Delaware, bassist Karl Alvarez and founder and drummer Bill Stevenson were in Colorado, and guitarist Stephen Egerton had settled in Oklahoma. So the album came to life over three years as the band sent tracks back and forth, occasionally meeting up in Karl and Bill’s adopted hometown of Fort Collins. Adopting such a protracted process meant not having to rush things, allowing for some of their sharpest songwriting yet.

“I think one of the things that’s kept us inspired over the years is having the music as an outlet for our frustrations,” says Milo, who delivered a particularly impassioned, even aggressive vocal performance. “Having the freedom to completely blow my voice out every time I recorded was a very positive experience for me,” he says. Personal catharsis was a prime motivator for Bill, who names “my relationship priorities and my own faulty psychology” as his top inspirations. “In a way, putting pen to paper and getting whatever you need to get out of you is the big accomplishment,” he says.

Hypercaffium Spazzinate Track Listing:

01. Feel This
02. Victim Of Me
03. On Paper
04. Shameless Halo
05. No Fat Burger
06. Testosterone
07. Without Love
08. We Got Defeat
09. Smile
10. Limiter
11. Fighting Myself
12. Spineless and Scarlet Red
13. Human Being
14. Full Circle
15. Comeback Kid
16. Beyond The Music

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