The Armed Announce New ‘Perfect Saviors’ Album With Video Featuring Iggy Pop As A Laughing God

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Two years aft The Armed released Ultrapop – their critically-acclaimed medium that elevated the creator corporate to a caller level of originative look and wide fame – the radical returns with Perfect Saviors. Heralding the caller album, arriving connected Aug. 25, the radical has released the video for “Sport of Form,” a opus featuring vocals from Julien Baker, celebrated rockstar and one-third of supergroup boygenius.

The video hits similar a technicolor look ripped from the fever dreams of Paul Cézanne and Grant Wood. Tony Wolski engages successful a bid of fantastical scenes (seemingly including subordinate Cara Drolshagen in a Sia-esque wig astatine 1 point, though it could beryllium anyone.) The video ends with Tony waking up from his slumber to find Iggy Pop, dressed successful white, sitting connected the porch, his look hidden down his hands. As the opus concludes, Iggy pulls distant his hands to uncover a agleam smile, revealing himself arsenic the Heavenly Father of each creation.

“Too overmuch accusation has made america dumb and confused,” says Wolski successful a statement. “Too galore ways to link person inadvertently led to isolation. And excessively overmuch anticipation has forced everyone to go a celebrity. Predictable primal dangers person fixed mode to newer societal ones. And the effect is simply a satellite that is confounding and terrifying—but yet inactive beautiful. We anticipation this grounds is precisely each of that, too. Perfect Saviors is our wholly unironic, sincere effort to make the biggest, top stone medium of the 21st century.”

The caller medium and decision of a trilogy “examining and dissecting what constitutes ‘pop culture’ successful a satellite of limitless accusation and access,” per the statement. The mediate of the trilogy, Ulltrapop, earned an 8.2 connected Pitchfork and a 4/5 astatine Kerrang, who called it “less a grounds than it is an creator statement, a defiant ‘f–k you’ to immoderate and each perceptions of what a dense set should and could be. Sure, it’s not thing you’re going to dip successful and retired of connected a whim, but erstwhile you’re in, you won’t privation to leave.”

As for the caller opus — which demands repetition listenings to decipher the depths contained wrong — Wolski explained the meaning down the “Sport of Form” title. “There are 2 types of sport—those of measurement and those of form. A athletics of measure, similar basketball, football, oregon soccer, has a constituent strategy and a benignant of binary way to victory. A athletics of signifier is thing similar diving, fig skating, oregon bodybuilding—something with evolving standards and a furniture of subjectivity and immoderate benignant of captious component.”

“The satellite that surrounds america is complex, and our lives are genuinely much akin to a athletics of signifier than 1 of measure. Yet, truthful galore radical spot it arsenic precisely the opposite,” helium explains. “Lyrically, this opus is astir the quality request to triumph a crippled that we’re not adjacent really playing. Sonically, it is simply a reflection of that cognitive dissonance done a changeless whiplash betwixt quality and ugliness, severity and tenderness, obscenity and grace.”

Aaron Jones

The Armed has a halfway rank with a rotating formed of contributors. Perfect Saviors volition diagnostic Julien Baker (courtesy of Matador Records), Sarah Tudzin, Mark Guiliana, Patrick Shiroishi, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Matt Sweeney, Bryan Aiken, and more.

The radical volition enactment Queens of the Stone Age on their The End Is Nero Tour in August, with a fistful of headlining dates rounding retired the remainder of 2023 (with much to come.) Pre-order Perfect Saviors here.

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