With nothing left to prove, Quicksand’s best days lay directly in front of them. The New York City post-hardcore band has announced their fourth studio album Distant Populations (Epitaph Records) which is set for release digitally on August 13 while the vinyl version drops on September 24. The band shares the single/video for “Missile Command,” a song that emerged from a Quicksand rehearsal jam, recalls Schreifels, “It really kind of focuses on Sergio’s (Vega) whole motif in a very simple way. He and Alan (Cage) just have this really kind of trademark groove, and I think that really sings on this one to me. I just felt like it’s a kind of song that is very us, but we hadn’t written it yet.”  

Recorded at Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Distant Populations was produced and engineered by Will Yip (The Menzingers, Code Orange, Defeater), and mixed by Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Megadeth, Avenged Sevenfold). The album is the follow-up to the critically lauded 2017 release Interiors. Sonically it has a punchier, more up-tempo sound than its predecessor, with its 11 songs being concise, carved sonic jewels boasting not a single wasted note. Its gripping lyricism and raw power leap out from the very first listening. 

Throughout the album’s 11 tracks, Quicksand explores the duality of our simultaneous existence in individual relationships and as part of mass society, while also examining the alienation and loneliness of it all. “Everyone is on the one hand so connected with each other, and on the other hand, is so far apart.” says frontman Walter Schreifels.“We’re checking out each other’s social media and we know what everybody’s doing. But when we’re sitting in the same room together, we’re looking at our phones,” he adds point out the sad irony of it all.

QUICKSAND TOUR DATES
9/28        Boston, MA                    Paradise Rock Club
9/29        Asbury Park, NJ             The Stone Pony
10/1        Lancaster, PA                Tellus 360
10/2        Albany, NY                     Empire Live
10/4        Detroit, MI                      El Club
10/5        Chicago, IL                     Metro
10/6        Minneapolis, MN            Fine Line Music Cafe
10/8        Denver, CO                    Bluebird Theater
10/9        Salt Lake City, UT          Urban Lounge
10/11      Portland, OR                  Wonder Ballroom
10/12      Vancouver, BC              Rickshaw Theatre
10/13      Seattle, WA                    Neumos
10/15      San Francisco, CA        Great American Music Hall
10/16      Los Angeles, CA            Troubadour
10/18      Phoenix, AZ                   Valley Bar
10/19      Santa Fe, NM                Meow Wolf
10/21      Austin, TX                      Mohawk
10/23      Houston, TX                   Studio @ Warehouse Live
10/25      Atlanta, GA                    Masquerade (Hell)
10/26      Charlotte, NC                 The Underground
10/27      Washington, DC            Black Cat
10/29      New York, NY                The Bowery Ballroom
10/31      Philadelphia, PA            Theatre of The Living Arts