Pre-order of Worldviews. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases June 14, 2024
$10USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
- Vinyl will ship June 2024
- Vinyl picture is just a mock. Final product may look different.
- If you prefer vinyl to be shipped outside the LP jacket please leave a note when you place your order.
Includes digital pre-order of Worldviews.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around June 14, 2024
edition of 200
Purchasable with gift card
$24USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
- Vinyl will ship June 2024
- Vinyl picture is just a mock. Final product may look different.
- If you prefer vinyl to be shipped outside the LP jacket please leave a note when you place your order.
Includes digital pre-order of Worldviews.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around June 14, 2024
edition of 300
Purchasable with gift card
$22USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
- Bundle will ship June 2024
'Worldviews' (2024) First Pressing:
200 Bubblegum Pink/Red
300 Sea Blue
'Having It All' (2015) First Pressing:
200 Blue + White Marble
300 Opaque Violet
500 Black
Includes digital pre-order of Worldviews.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
I want to share
My own unique point of view
I want to feel like
I'm doing something new
Playing the role
Like there's nothing left to lose
As if it's too good to be true
I want to hear
All of the sounds at once
Reflections of all that I love
I see the world
As I imagine
But I don’t know
What I don’t know
I’m on a hill
I’ll probably die on
When I am wrong
The sum of all my parts
Hope to someday become a whole
My head wants to be empty
But my heart wants to be full
I always want to push
When I know I should try to pull
A black-and-white worldview
That’s now in technicolor
I see the world
As I imagined
But I don’t know
What I don’t know
I’m on a hill
I’ll probably die on
When I am wrong
When I am wrong
I’ve got certain habits
That I can’t break
Giving explanations
That don’t mean anything
Every conversation
Ends the same way
“We’ll get there eventually”
Passively stated over and over
It’s a defense mechanism!
Something else to believe in
Always have my own reasons
For a defense mechanism!
Seems like you found me
At a strange time in life
It is what it is
But nothing was my fault
A death in the family
A loss of all our funds
I could go on and on
I need a defense mechanism!
Something else to believe in
Always have my own reasons
For a defense mechanism!
11.
Hopium
12.
The Afterworld
about
[TE208]
On “We Are Where We Are,” a glimmering mid-tempo highlight from Annabel’s new album, Ben Hendricks sings of “a modern way to fill the empty space.” Worldviews, the band’s fourth LP and first in nine years finds the band reconciling with the ways the world has changed in the decade since they’ve been away. His protagonists are trying to determine the boundaries between what’s real and imagined, navigating their worldviews and the dominant ones around them, fighting for an escape or at least a distraction, wondering where the time goes, “going through the motions, running in a circle.” That could’ve been Annabel’s fate, too. But the core of the Ohio band is brothers Ben and Andy Hendricks, and as long as they’ve got each other, we’ve still got Annabel. In a world that feels so uncertain and so disconnected, where else is there to turn but back to Annabel? Think of Worldviews less like a comeback and more as the product of years spent gestating, more The Meadowlands than the promised Wrens LP4.
Hendricks spends the chorus of “All Time” promising to “make up for all the lost time,” and Annabel makes good on that promise for the next half hour. Worldviews is the most locked in the band has ever sounded, perfecting and building on their indie-emo sound. The title track and “Dog” are classic Annabel, sprightly and jangly midwestern rock songs, while “Defense Mechanism” is a rougher-edged update; when they go in the opposite direction, it results in some of their best work: “Every Home Needs a Ghost” is spartan and spectral, worthy of its title, and the beautiful “Small Victories” dabbles in downtempo electronics. They don’t sound like a band returning after nearly a decade; they sound at the same time hungry and lively like scrappy upstarts and wizened and seasoned like they never left. At no point does it sound like they’re trying to justify a return—it sounds like it was the natural next step.
On Youth in Youth’s closer, Ben sang, “I want to be with you forever,” and Worldviews’ closer—the sputtering piano ballad “The Afterworld”––finds him, thirteen years later, singing that “I’d be in love with you in any life I’m reborn into.” Some things, it seems, haven’t changed. In the line right before that one, he murmurs, “I don’t believe in anything except for love.” If anything keeps Annabel grounded throughout Worldviews, it’s that determination, that hope. And it’s enough to convince you, too.
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