Lo-Pan Announce New Album Get Well Soon Out April 4; “The Good Fight” Posted
Get Well Soon is the title of the upcoming fifth Lo-Pan album, to be released as their first offering through Magnetic Eye Records on April 4. The lead single and opening track, “The Good Fight” is up for streaming as of today and offers ready emphasis of several of the band’s strengths, be it songwriting, melody, energy of performance, or the general amount of sass being applied at any given moment. A band who’ve long since established ‘their sound,’ Lo-Pan are characteristic in “The Good Fight” and mature in their craft, and five records deep (not six?), still able to come across as brash when they want to be. You know the chorus is coming, and they know it too. Somehow the journey surprises.
Lo-Pan‘s last full-length, Subtle (review here), came out in 2019, which indeed feels a bit like a lifetime ago. I haven’t seen a lyric sheet or heard the full album, so don’t know how much of Get Well Soon is informed directly or otherwise with drummer Jesse Bartz‘s fight with cancer circa 2022-2024, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable given the title to think the subject might come up somewhere. In any case, the hope is that Lo-Pan get on the road and don’t stop, because it’s a better world when they’re on tour somewhere in it.
April’s a ways off, but the new song’s a killer tease. Have at it at the bottom of this post. The text comes from the PR wire:
LO-PAN drop first single ‘The Good Fight’ taken from the forthcoming new album “Get Well Soon”
Preorder link:
http://lnk.spkr.media/lo-pan-get-well
LO-PAN release the first advance single ‘The Good Fight’ taken from the American hard rockers’ new full length “Get Well Soon”. The new album from the long-running Columbus, Ohio foursome has been scheduled to hit the stores on April 4, 2025.
LO-PAN comment: “We rewrote ‘The Good Fight’ about 10 times over four years before recording the tracks and my drums were captured on the second take”, drummer Jesse Bartz explains to which guitarist Chris Thompson adds: “This is one of my favorite songs to play off the new album as it has a Lo-Panthem type quality to it, which is a phrase that Andrew Schneider coined during mixing”. Vocalist Jeff Martin has the final word: “Lyrically, the theme of ‘Get Well Soon’ is more of a ‘stuff is very much broken beyond repair now’ sort of message.”
Tracklist
1. The Good Fight
2. Northern Eyes
3. Wormwood
4. Ozymandias
5. Rogue Wave
6. Harpers Ferry
7. Stay with the Boat
8. God’s Favorite Victim
9. Six Bells
Since 2005, LO-PAN have laboured hard to earn a reputation as one of the most consistent and compelling acts in the modern heavy scene with their blue-collar ethic and singular artistic vision, which is strongly felt on “Get Well Soon”.
On this album, LO-PAN further define their brand of American Hard Rock, a wicked stylistic mix of deep fried heaviness sprinkled with metal and grunge, all fused through captivating songwriting into an irresistible fifth album.
“Get Well Soon” heralds another great leap forward for LO-PAN. Heavy, cool, catchy, and with a marked emotional resonance developed through experience and maturity, “Get Well Soon” will take the Americans to new places around the globe.
Recording by Joe Viers at Sonic Lounge, Grove City, Columbus OH (US)
Mix by Andrew Schneider at ACRE Audio, New York City, NY (US)
Mastering by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, Chicago, IL (US)
Cover photography by Heidi Shapiro
Layout & Art Direction by Chris Smith (Grey Aria Design)
Line-up
Jeff Martin – vocals
Chris Thompson – guitar
Scott Thompson – bass
Jesse Bartz – drums
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