There’s a lengthy and storied history behind the Queens, NY outfit The Forms. Well, maybe not that long and storied but the one thing about The Forms everyone probably needs to know: they’re one of the best bands you’ll ever hear in this lifetime. After a 10-year hiatus, the band last released the Derealization EP back in 2011, the group shares its new video for the single “All Souls Day,” where we find members Alex Tween and Matt Walsh melding creative minds on this percussively brilliant track. The track is taken off the band’s new album set for release sometime in 2022.

Of the track, Alex Tween shares: The ‘soul’ of our song “All Souls Day” is the bass steel pan, a deep sonorous mysterious magical musical instrument we had never heard before that sounds ancient and futuristic all at once. Layered upon that is a tack piano, Rhodes, and Hammond organ while the vocals were recorded at a church in Rockaway, and the result is a strange dark meditative soundscape of a quiet apocalypse. We decided to release the song on the actual All Souls Day…in fact, our entire release calendar was based upon that happening. The song is a wild mood swing after [the previous two singles] “Head Underwater” and “Southern Ocean” which were upbeat colorful freak pop songs. We don’t know what kind of song All Souls Day is – but it’s definitely in the vein of a doomy zeitgeist, which is leaned into by the song’s video, in which we play the song in an isolated field in the middle of the Catskill Mountains, and over the course of the day seem to conjure forces that come alive by night as the surrounding goldenrod and spiders look on.