N0V3L Announce Debut Album & Share New Single

N0V3L have returned to announce details of their debut album NON-FICTION out May 28th via Meat Machine & Flemish Eye Records. With the news comes the release of the album’s leading single “GROUP DISEASE,” a bitter analysis of ingroup/outgroup dogma and the accelerating violence of populism.

NON-FICTION features music written between 2017 and 2020 by lead vocalist Jon Varley and produced and mixed by Bryce Cloghesy (Military Genius, Crack Cloud). The album was recorded on a Tascam-388 at the band’s Vancouver since-torn-down rental home, a place which acted as a headquarters for producing music, videos, and clothing. N0V3L now exists in a scattered cloud across British Columbia.

The album functions as a treatise on modern existence and the perverse parameters within which it’s experienced. It’s a collection of agile, carefully-constructed post-punk, new wave and funk that’s been zapped and warped by an opioid overdose crisis, mental illness, populism, and the merciless onward march of time. NON-FICTION is dark and occasionally danceable, a macabre late-capitalist disco under a pall of confusion. 

Listen to “Group Disease” below: