TOUCHÉ AMORÉ has been burrowing through angst, alienation,

cancer, and heartbreak throughout four adored studio albums.

After over a decade of working through darkness, the band"s

gorgeously gruff fifth album, Lament, finds the light at the end

of the tunnel. Through 11 songs, Touché Amoré looks back at

its past and uses hard-won optimism to point its fans toward

light, and love. For the follow up to the their critically acclaimed

2016 release, Stage Four, Touché Amoré have opted to get out

of their comfort zone and work with a new producer, the

famously demanding Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Korn, At the

Drive-In). Both Robinson and Touché Amoré are known for their

trademark intensity. "I believe there was an unspoken learning

curve between Ross"s methods and the understanding that I"ve

poured myself into the words and mean every one of them,"

vocalist Jeremy Bolm says. Robinson agreed to a rare one-song

"test recording" last summer, which resulted in the song

"Deflector," released last fall. In the end, "Deflector" proved the

producer/band combo was undoubtedly the right fit. Robinson

made Bolm read out all of his confessional lyrics to his

bandmates to make sure they understood their emotional

content. Making Bolm read those lyrics turned out to be what

helped make their emotions palpable in the final recording. With

its ruminations on the draining human connection ("I"ll test the

water/I won"t dive right in/That"s too personal/I"m too

delicate"), Lament"s first helping is a sharp intro to the album"s

themes. Lament is their masterstroke. Its longer, structured

songs soar with a ferocious but delicate musicality and

powerful, gut-wrenching storytelling that smashes previous

heights. Yet as much as the band has grown and matured via

everything they"ve endured, it"s perhaps equally impressive

how they"ve managed to stay true to their core...

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