Balance and Composure drop new single "Any Means"
Balance and Composure get intensely self-reflective on new song Any Means. The track finds vocalist and guitarist Jon Simmons uprooting and examining all of the supports on which life is built — Pre-emptive grief, wrestling with god and faith, familial responsibility and mortality; these are the things Simmons was carrying while writing this material. They’re also things he was trying, for better and worse, to avoid.
Check out the video for Any Means below:
And the fourth Balance and Composure album “With You In Spirit”, is an arresting, atmospheric collection of melodic post-punk and towering rock. Due out on 4th October 2024 on long-time collaborator and Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip’s Memory Music, it’s the band’s first LP in nearly a decade.
Musically, this record feels like Balance and Composure's true form - collectively, Simmons, lead guitarist Erik Petersen, guitarist Andy Slaymaker, bassist Matt Warner, and drummer Dennis Wilson are pulling from the best parts of themselves, exploring new depths while paying homage to where they've been, too.
“With You In Spirit” Tracklist
1. restless
2. ain't it sweet
3. any means
4. cross to bear
5. believe the hype
6. lead foot
7. sorrow machine
8. a little of myself
9. closer to god
10. with you in spirit
2016’s “Light We Made” was meant to be Balance's final full-length record. When they announced their breakup in 2019, things weren’t clicking the way they used to; it felt like the group had run out of road. But when the pandemic took hold the following year and ripped away all routine, Simmons started to miss his long-time bandmates.
Eventually, Petersen reached out with a simple question: how would they feel about simply trying to write music together again? Everyone agreed—the absence had weighed heavily on them, and the friends gathered in October 2022 and began to write new songs.
“I began to feel like a kid again,” says Simmons. “We were writing these songs for the pure reason of having an outlet and getting together with your friends, no pressure. We were longing for it, and we found it as soon as we got together. We didn’t want that train to stop.”
Check out the stunning track Last To Know below:
“With You In Spirit” is released on 4th October via Memory Music, and is available to pre-order now HERE.
