THE ARMED "The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed" LP

LP with gatefold jacket, printed inner sleeve, and 44 page book

The Armed return with their new album 'The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed,' the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed album 'Perfect Saviors.' After completing a trilogy of albums laser-focused on dissecting artistic authenticity in the Information Age, The Armed began work on new material with no premeditated rules or concepts—favoring only raw expression and urgency to herald a new era for the project. What emerged is a furious and confrontational new album—'The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed.' Still genre-defying, yet overtly pissed, it's an unfiltered expression of Weltschmerz, the German term describing the anguish of the world’s reality versus our idealized visions of what it should be. “This record rejects sanitized, G-rated rebellion curated for upper middle-class tastes,” vocalist Tony Wolski explains. “It’s music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine—endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed. It reflects the dissociation required just to exist in that reality.”

The album includes performances by Ken Szymanski, Patrick Shiroishi, Urian Hackney, Kurt Ballou, Troy Van Leeuwen, Meghan O’Neil, Cara Drolshagen, Tony Wolski, Brian Wolski, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Ben Chisholm, Prostitute, Zach Weeks, Mark Guiliana, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, and Derek Coburn.

Tracklist:
01. Well Made Play
02. Purity Drag
03. Kingbreaker
04. Grace Obscure
05. Broken Mirror (feat. Prostitute)
06. Sharp Teeth
07. I Steal What I Want
08. Local Millionaire
09. Gave Up
10. Heathen
11. A More Perfect Design

Pressing Information:
750 - White/Red/Black Tri-Color Wedge
1500 - Cloudy Clear w/ Yellow/Pink/Green Splatter