PARDONER Announce New Album & Share Lead Single

Photo by Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes

Pardoner announce their highly anticipated new album Peace Loving People, out June 23rd via Bar/None Records. Lead single “Are You Free Tonight?” provides a clear mission statement from the band, careening wildly from warmly nostalgic alt-rock to frantic punk, moving away from prior efforts to mix disparate genres together and instead juxtaposing them sharply against each other.

“One of many on the album about our generation, the things we do to get by, and how we’re all goin nowhere fast. Kinda shows the 2 poles of our sound, from something warm and saccharine to something more sinister and violent.”

San Francisco based rock band Pardoner was forged by continuing members Max Freeland, Trey Flanigan, and River Van Den Berghe, who stuck together realizing they had an artful, frenetic musical connection and a truly radical friendship.

Current band members Max (guitar/vox), Trey (guitar/vox), River (drums) and Colin (bass) are running a multinational enterprise with Max living in Vancouver BC, a 15-hour drive away. This has not stopped the band from writing and recording their magnum opus, Peace Loving People, to be released with the bands label Bar/None Records this summer.

Trey and Max, having written Pardoner’s prior LP while a great distance apart from one another as well (The Bar/None released 2021 ripper Came Down Different), reckoned the distance was manageable and again wrote their contributions from afar. Trading demos back and forth for the better part of two years, the band had a more relaxed approach to the writing process this time around, and after extensively demoing the material as a full band, set out to record it with longtime friend of the band and trusted engineer, Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden Studio in Oakland, CA. 

Watch the music video & listen to “Are You Free Tonight” below.