What Is Truth?: Double Vinyl LP

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Label: Double Double Whammy
Release Date: 22nd January 2027

Chatting Albums of 2027 already but Knifeplay's slowcore and "apocalyptic folk" hits like a crushing wave bliss, sparse folk guitars and atmospherics, dream pop slowed and distilled, a haunted country and big dust clouds of heavy chaos building these cinematic epics. I've been given a sneak peak and this record is UNREAL. If you like Beach House, American Football, Mazzy Star and Ethel Cain you will love this record.

"What Is Truth?" is the third full-length album from Philadelphia based slowcore band Knifeplay, and their first for indie label Double Double Whammy. It marks a full departure from the band's shoegaze roots, moving into something more spacious and lyrics-forward: slow-burning arrangements rooted in slowcore and "apocalyptic folk". Where earlier Knifeplay records searched, this one arrives with intention. Written and recorded as a band in a room rather than built from bedroom demos, it is the group's most deliberate work to date. Songwriter Tj Strohmer turns away from purely personal confession toward something larger: a meditation on love and art as the only things that stay true while the modern world falls into decline. The result is heavy and unflinching, but never hopeless. Beneath the darkness runs a steady thread of resilience and, finally, redemption. Across the album, the music moves from reckoning to something like grace. "Love Song," the lead single, sits with the loneliness of carrying your own trauma and hoping to be understood and accepted anyway. The closing track, "Please Let the Children Be Artists," with French horn and flute drifting over mellotron strings, lands as a plea for healing, with love and art offered as a way back to ourselves.