The Drums are back in September to present their new album live. We will enjoy them at Teatro Barceló in Madrid on September 14th and on the 15th at Razzmatazz 2 in Barcelona. Fuckaine will open for The Drums in both cities.
Tickets are already on sale through doctormusic.com (*). Also in Fnac, Viajes Carrefour, Halcón Viajes and by phone on 0034 93 275 22 94. Ticket price is 23 Euros (IVA inc.) booking fees not included.
Three years after the release of their third record, The Drums has just releasead their fourth album, Abysmal Thoughts. The first single, “Blood Under My Belt,” is now available in streaming. This first taste of Abysmal Thoughts is quintessential Drums: a real heartbreaker disguised as a sunny track, showcasing frontman Jonny Pierce’s masterful pop sensibility.
Across a year and three months of home recording between Los Angeles and his cabin in upstate New York—with the same guitar, synthesizer, drum machine and reverb unit he has played since the beginning of The Drums—Pierce put together Abysmal Thoughts. With help from engineer Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Mannequin Pussy and more), the result is an unflinching autobiography with Pierce back in full control of the band. He’s back to not just writing all the songs by himself but playing every instrument, too, this time realizing exactly his own personal vision for the band. Not coincidentally, it’s some of the most revelatory work he’s ever done.
With The Drums’ new record, band founder Jonny Pierce is making the exact album he’s always held in his heart. Of course, this is The Drums, so that heart is broken—but there’s beauty and even bliss in this kind of heartbreak. “I said I wanted to let life happen?” he says. “Well, the universe listened and life began to fuck me real good! But honestly, I make the worst art when I’m comfortable. The stuff that resonates with me the longest—and that resonates with others—is always the stuff that comes out of my misery.”









