Off With Their Heads’ new album Be Good is available now.

“All the other records were about moping around and feeling sorry for yourself,” says frontman Ryan Young. “This one is less about feeling sorry for yourself and more about accepting how goddamn miserable you are.”

Young and the band members, holed up at The Hideaway in Minneapolis with additional recording at Pachyderm Studios, a mid-century mansion where Nirvana recorded In Utero, to make Be Good. Young produced the record himself, and it was the first time he enjoyed the process, or at least tolerated it. “I don’t like how the old records sound, and I hate recording so much,” he says. “You could just hear all the dumb shit on them where I was like, whatever, just let it go, I want to get out of here.”

Forced acceptance is a big theme of Be Good, though it’s a hard-learned one, often emerging in the form of primal screams in the band’s trademark style of gruff-punk. “Hands up to the sky and shout at the top of your lungs, ‘til the floor falls out!” Young yells on the title track, sounding somewhere between motivational speaker and hard-nosed therapist.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

2019 AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Tuesday 19 November – Crowbar, Brisbane 18+
Wednesday 20 November – Vinnies Dive Bar, Southport 18+
Friday 22 November – Crowbar, Sydney 18+
Saturday 23 November – Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle 18+
Sunday 24 November – Transit, Canberra 18+
Wednesday 27 November – Crown and Anchor, Adelaide 18+
Friday 29 November – Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne 18+

Tickets on sale now here