Ontario’s rock ‘n’ roll torchbearers, The Dirty Nil, will drop a new album, Free Rein to Passions (Dine Alone Records). Today they further tease the album via the release of a new single, the album’s opener “Celebration.”  Featuring a chugging metal riff as a subtle ode to one of The Nil’s influences, Power Trip’s late frontman Riley Gale, frontman Luke Bentham says, “This is our purest love song, unconditional and without mercy. ‘Tell me what you want in the whole wide world. I’ll do it.’”

The Dirty Nil has previously shared the lead-single “Nicer Guy.”  Free Rein To Passions is a return to form for the band, marking a more reckless approach for the JUNO Award-winning trio. Across the album’s 10 tracks, the band keeps things simple lyrically and thematically with songs about working soul-sucking jobs, shredding on guitar, and striving to be a kinder person. “The only real central theme of the album is an acknowledgment of the crazy circumstances that we all occupy at this point in time, and being nice,” Bentham stresses. “It’s about being nice to everyone around you, and enjoying your silly little life, and not getting too smashed down by prevailing negativity in the air.”