Jinjer have announced their upcoming fifth album, Duél, and offered up a new song, the haunting “Kafka.” In contrast to preceding singles “Rogue” and “Someone’s Daughter,” which lean into the Ukrainian band’s heavier, djent-ier inclinations, the latest cut is a slower-burning power ballad — though it does ultimately erupt into crushing riffery and roaring vocals, the latter of courtesy of powerhouse vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk.
The song arrived today (October 23rd) along with a striking video featuring artwork and animation by Oleksii Zatserkovnyi. Watch and listen above.
Shmayluk commented of “Kafka”: “Being an artist is sometimes beautiful but most of the time it’s brutal… as our art is dissected word for word and ripped apart note by note, we‘re expected to be on point all-the-time … and when we aren’t, we are scandalized. A true artist is vulnerable but the crowd is most often plagued with vultures who pick at every single move you make. It’s a slippery slope when music means the world to us but how quickly praise turns into prosecution… We are all Kings and Queens for a day but most of the time it feels like a Kafka novel for a lifetime. It‘s exciting but surreal and absurd at the same time …”
Duél is due out February 7th and available for pre-order now.
Duél tracklisting:
Tantrum
Hedonist
Rogue
Tumbleweed
Green Serpent
Kafka
Dark Bile
Fast Draw
Someone’s Daughter
A Tongue So Sly
Duél