Skip The Use - Love & Anxiety Tour

SKIP THE USE IS BACK! Three years after the emotional whirlwind of Human Disorder, the quartet from Lille returns to make our eardrums tremble and stir consciences with "WE ARE GOOD" / "DISTORTER", the first double release from an upcoming sixth album. In the colourful wake of their fifth offspring, Mat Bastard (vocals), Yan Stefani (guitar), Enzo Gabert (drums) and Nelson Martins (bass) have shaped their new record like a puzzle, during an invigorating creative interlude. During this pause bathed in freedom, the four accomplices set themselves the challenge of writing individually in the service of the collective, until they gave birth to a borderless sonic patchwork, sending labels flying while still managing to bring people together, fist raised high.

The first warning shot of this sixth chapter, the double A-side single "WE ARE GOOD" / "DISTORTER", sees the band teaming up with the brilliant American sound engineer Adam Hawkins, a Grammy Award winner (for his work on Switchfoot's album Hello Hurricane) and behind-the-scenes collaborator to some of the biggest names in pop (Britney Spears, L.P., Demi Lovato...), rap (50 Cent, Eminem, The Roots...) and alternative rock (Blink-182, Muse, Twenty One Pilots, Turnstile, Yungblud...). On the flip side, "DISTORTER", a defiant and libertarian outlet with the air of an electro-punk uppercut: "It's a violent, uncompromising observation: we are the authors of our own lives. The greatest con of our time is having convinced us that we are incapable of taking control of our own destiny", explain its creators. Behind its vivid name, evoking an effects pedal that would distort not the guitars but our very lives, the track denounces the established order in order to better break its chains: "They sell us their lies, they poison our veins / Feed us their fear, but we're breaking the chains", bellows Mat Bastard, rarely so defiant, just before the chorus emerges. The chorus, cathartic and rebellious,