THESE NEW SOUTH WHALES ANNOUNCE THIRD ALBUM ‘TNSW’ + SHARE EMOTIVE NEW SINGLE ‘ROTTEN SUN’ TNSW LP OUT NOV 18 VIA DAMAGED RECORDS

Australian punk royalty These New South Whales today announce their third album, TNSW, out November 18 via Damaged Records. With the news, the band share their latest single, the existential anthem ‘Rotten Sun‘. LISTEN + WATCH HERE.

TNSW marks a refined new era for the band and is comfortably their most sophisticated body of work yet: a 14-track tome of barrelling punk rock that polishes its heavier moments – heavier than ever – with sing-along choruses, sharp arrangements, and plenty of trademark irony and self-awareness. For every ’90s alternative reference, there’s a blast beat; for every big radio moment, a cursed instrumental aside. It’s the same impeccable sleight of hand we’ve come to expect from the band – a throughline, also, for their hit Comedy Central TV show and exalted podcast, What a Great Punk.

But on TNSW, the songwriting has found another gear, and the energy and defiance that got them here are more pronounced than ever.

Their latest single, ‘Rotten Sun‘ is inspired by the Ross J. Farrar (Ceremony) poem of the same name, a ready-made anthem that laments the impermanence of all things. “I can’t read Ross’s poem without crying,” said frontman Jamie Timony, “so I wanted to regurgitate it in my own way with these lyrics. The sun is slowly eating us all. Everything goes back to the great nothingness from whence it came. And there’s peace in that if we choose.”