Some news to put your mind at ease: post-hardcore legends Quicksand have announced plans to put out their first full-length release in five years. While their Bring On the Psychics hits your mindscape in full this summer, the New York trio and Revolver have partnered up to premiere not one, but two groove-heavy heaters from the album right fucking now.
First up is “Get to It.” A performance-style video directed by Jesse Korman, which you’ll find up above, finds Quicksand — vocalist-guitarist Walter Schreifels, bassist Sergio Vega and drummer Alan Cage — delivering a sleek-chorded, but gain-surged pound. While the vid features cobalt-cool color grading, Schreifels’ carpe diem-themed screams run in the red.
“It’s tough to talk about your own music and what it means, not only because I sometimes don’t understand it myself but [because] in a way it robs the listener of their own interpretation,” Schreifels says, though he concedes that “Get to It” is about “poking holes in the excuses for standing still.” He elaborates: “Procrastination is something I’ve struggled with my whole life, so I’m always looking for a new mantra to help overcome my tendency to put things off.”
Additionally, the band have dropped a visualizer for the record’s “Regenerate,” which slips into a classically melodic and head-bobbing Quicksand groove. You’ll find that one down below.
“‘Regenerate’ is about finding new paths forward. It’s a theme I think we all return to. No matter how well you play it, life will keep taking things away from you,” Schreifels notes. “It sucks but this is how we learn and grow as people, so it might be we’re living the most when faced with having to get back up from a hard hit.”
Though Quicksand teamed-up with Hot Water Music for a split EP in 2024, Bring On the Psychics is the proper follow up to 2021’s Distant Populations. The new album also features “Supercollider” from that joint effort, and marks Quicksand’s first full-length release through Equal Vision (who had issued that split).
A press release notes that the album was produced and recorded across a 10-day stretch with Jon Markson (Drug Church, Drain), and the flow of the LP “serves as the sonic bridge between [Quicksand’s] heavy and influential Nineties sound and the ambitious, experimental output contained within its more recent era.”
Additionally, Schreifels felt inspired by his teenaged days in the NYHC scene, playing bass in Youth of Today and guitar in Gorilla Biscuits (roles he continues to maintain off/on in the present), and the spirit of those recordings.
“For this album, I was going back to a lot of my earlier influences about ‘break down the walls’ or ‘start today,’” he says. “Regardless of whether you’re into hardcore or youth crew, they’re really cool records because they’re speaking to the time and providing possible paths to a better future … with mosh parts. That’s the energy that I wanted to bring to this.”
Bring On the Psychics is due out July 17th via Equal Vision, though a pre-order for the LP on exclusive “Pink Splatter” vinyl is available now in Revolver’s shop.
Bring On the Psychics tracklisting:
Get to It
Regenerate
Agency
Crystallize
Supercollider
In Full Color
Days You Run To
Cool Guy
Moving Forward
Bring On the Psychic