The Black Angels have announced their first new album in five years — Wilderness of Mirrors will be released on September 16 on Partisan Records. In anticipation of this, the psych-rock outfit from Austin have released a new single along with a music video starring the Walking Dead’s Austin Amelio. Watch and listen to “El Jardín” below:
The video features Amelio’s son, Lev, exploring the landscape of a healthy Earth in all its vegetative glory through a virtual headset. Reality, as seen through the sepia-tinted imagery in the beginning and end of the video, is set in a post-apocalyptic environment where trees have gone extinct. This gives the human touch a bad rap overall, but with the nudge of alarmist hope. Whether this is a standalone concept or indicative of the upcoming album’s theme is still unclear.
The artwork and tracklist of the new album have also been released:
- Without a Trace
- History of the Future
- Empires Falling
- El Jardín
- La Pared (Govt. Wall Blues)
- Firefly
- Make it Known
- The River
- Wilderness of Mirrors
- Here & Now
- 100 Flowers of Paracusia
- A Walk on the Outside
- Vermillion Eyes
- Icon
- Suffocation
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat