Code Orange enter a Technicolor world in new “Take Shape” video
Alternative Press teamed up with Code Orange for exclusive The Above vinyl, limited to 350 copies. Head to the AP Shop to snag yours.
Code Orange’s new album, The Above, is on the way, arriving Sept. 29 via Blue Grape Music.
As the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2020 LP, Underneath, the new project is self-produced by Jami Morgan and Eric “Shade” Balderose, with engineering by Steve Albini. Along with the album announcement, the band shared the single and music video “Take Shape,” which features vocals from the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan.
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The video is a continuation of “Grooming My Replacement,” with the protagonist fleeing his captives and arriving in a new reality. Toward the end, he steps off a building and descends upon a Technicolor world that feels straight out of a Ghibli film.
“We wanted the album to be able to wash over you with melody, aggression, and joy, but it was of equal importance that the closer you look, the more you are rewarded,” Morgan says. “It was to feel rooted in the ‘analog’ world, but with threads of digital reality binding things together. We wanted the sound and even the recording process itself to reflect that edict, so we enlisted Steve Albini at Electrical Audio to get the most real and raw version of the band possible, even recording us all at once in a room together for the first time in our career.”
See the tracklist, album artwork, and video for “Take Shape” below.
The Above tracklist
- “Never Far Apart”
- “Theatre Of Cruelty”
- “Take Shape” (feat. Billy Corgan)
- “The Mask Of Sanity Slips”
- “Mirror”
- “A Drone Opting Out Of The Hive”
- “I Fly”
- “Splinter The Soul”
- “The Game”
- “Grooming My Replacement”
- “Snapshot”
- “Circle Through”
- “But A Dream…”
- “The Above”
The Above album artwork
