(Toronto, ON – April 2, 2021) – Moist announce upcoming record, End of the Ocean, their first album release since 2014’s Glory Under Dangerous Skies, out October 1, 2021, via Known Accomplice. Fans can pre-order here! The band has also shared the title track alongside this stunning visual.

WATCH” END OF THE OCEAN”

The video is adapted from the film OFF WORLD (2009), which was directed by Mateo Guez, filmed on location at Smokey Mountain in the Philippines, and narrated by lead singer, David Usher. When the band was working on the creative for the video for “End of the Ocean”, a song which discusses peak consumption and its devastating results on the planet, Moist keyboardist, Kevin Young, referenced OFF WORLD, recalling how closely the film’s themes and imagery matched “End of the Ocean”. David quickly put an edit together and shared it with Mateo – who loved the video and the idea of these two elements coming together – and the emotionally charged and beautiful music video was born.

With “End of the Ocean” Moist take another biting and critical look at modern life, with a video that reflects on the end result of our disposable lifestyle and a song that reflects on how quickly technology in our culture is moving and the impact it has both on us and our planet.

Lead singer David Usher expands on the track and album’s theme: “I live in analogue, trained to trust in feeling. And I live in technology, in love with my new shiny objects. These days it feels like we’re constantly racing, dealing with an endless stream of data, our days stuffed with online meetings, and passwords, and Netflix, and unsocial media, and always more stuff – a material culture on speed.

The song “End of the Ocean” came from a dream, and that seeded the album. A place at the end, where we came tumbling out of the whirlwind, rolling ass over head – we looked up, and it all stopped. It was a place we could just sit and watch quietly as it all crashed down around us. There was nothing left to do but breathe it in and look to the ones we love.

Usher references the latest trend in technology, Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), reminding us of the often unforeseen, environmental consequences of our desire for something shiny and new, saying: “Can we just slow down on the love affair with the NFT’s, at least until we can make them climate-neutral? The greatest irony would be if artists and their art are the catalysts that lead the world to embrace a new unsustainable economy. Right now, until Ethereum switches its model from proof of work to proof of stake, NFT’s are the new oil business; a gold rush for people making money at the expense of the planet. The blockchain is definitely the future, but as the world accelerates we need to be constantly thinking about the ecosystems we’re building, and that they are sustainable.” For additional information please read more here and here.

“End of the Ocean” follows “Tarantino”, the album’s first single, which was released in late January with an accompanying video adapted from the National Film Board of Canada short, Caterpillarplasty and re-edited by director David Barlow-Krelina. The video, which has since racked up over 100k views on YouTube, is a powerful and sardonic take on society’s unrelenting obsession with beauty and perfection.

Produced and mixed by lead guitarist, Mark Makoway, End of the Ocean also features the band’s original bass player, Jeff Pearce (who rejoined Moist for their 2019 25th Silver Anniversary tour), as well as rhythm guitarist Jon Gallivan and drummer Francis Fillion.

Founded in 1993, Moist was propelled to prominence on the strength of their debut album, Silver, and the uniquely powerful alt-rock anthems “Push”, “Silver”, and “Believe Me”. Like Silver, the band’s follow up records – Creature (1996) and Mercedes Five and Dime (1999) – went on to achieve multi-platinum sales (over 1.3 million albums worldwide) and yielded more chart-topping hits including “Resurrection”, “Tangerine”, “Gasoline”, “Breathe”, and “Underground”.

End Of The Ocean
October 1, 2021
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