{"id":36083,"date":"2021-03-30T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36083"},"modified":"2021-03-27T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:40:05","slug":"n0v3l-announces-debut-full-length-album-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36083","title":{"rendered":"N0V3L announces debut full-length album,  \u2018NON-FICTION\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>N0V3L have announced their debut full-length album, \u2018NON-FICTION\u2019, which will be out via Flemish Eye. A collection of agile,\u00a0carefully-constructed post-punk, new wave and funk that\u2019s been zapped and warped by an opioid overdose crisis, mental illness, populism, and the merciless onward march of time,\u00a0\u2018NON-FICTION\u2019 is\u00a0dark and occasionally danceable, a\u00a0macabre late-capitalist disco\u00a0under a pall of confusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album\u2019s lead single\u00a0<em>GROUP DISEASE<\/em>\u00a0is a bitter analysis of ingroup\/outgroup dogma and the accelerating violence of populism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Obsessed with patterns amidst the madness\/A lust for meaning, a search for balance,\u201d<\/em> sings vocalist Jon Varley. As guitars trade outbursts, he laments: \u201c<em>A group disease to ease despair\/Submit, believe, no cross to bear.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Listen to <em>GROUP DISEASE<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVDTecuDUBU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018NON-FICTION\u2019 will be out across\u00a0digital retailers\u00a0May 28\u00a0and will be\u00a0in stores\u00a0July 9<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>via Flemish Eye Records. Pre-order <a href=\"https:\/\/smarturl.it\/Non-Fiction-N0V3L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>N0V3L have announced their debut full-length album, \u2018NON-FICTION\u2019, which will be out via Flemish Eye. A collection of agile,\u00a0carefully-constructed post-punk, new wave and funk that\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36083\" title=\"N0V3L announces debut full-length album,  \u2018NON-FICTION\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30],"tags":[9974,9972,9973,925],"class_list":["post-36083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-group-disease","tag-non-fiction","tag-nov3l","tag-post-punk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9E48282A-7E0C-4A2C-857F-664FF62AA3A2.jpeg?fit=630%2C445&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9nZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36972,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36972","url_meta":{"origin":36083,"position":0},"title":"N0V3L release debut album &#8216;NON-FICTION&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"N0V3L's debut full-length, \u2018NON-FICTION,\u2019 comprises 11 tracks that function as a treatise on modern existence and the perverse parameters within which it's experienced. 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