Post-hardcore outfit Soulside have a new album on the way, their first full-length since 1989’s Hot Bodi-Gram. It’s titled A Brief Moment in the Sun and it arrives November 18 via Dischord. They’ve shared two songs from the project: “Reconstruction,” and “Runner,” which comes with a video by the band’s drummer, Alexis Fleisig. Check them out with the album’s tracklist and a handful of upcoming tour dates below.

Soulside formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985, dissolving in 1989 and reuniting in 2014 after a 25-year hiatus. In 2020, they shared three new songs through a two-song 7″ single that came with a bonus track download. The band shared a statement about the creation of A Brief Moment in the Sun:

We started writing the songs for A Brief Moment in the Sun in late 2020. It was daunting at first trying to make music virtually from four separate locations (NYC, Los Angeles, North Carolina, Austria) in the middle of a global pandemic, but we quickly found a songwriting groove and we added biweekly video conference calls to keep ourselves on track. By early 2021, we realized that there was something very special and passionate (and urgent) happening in these songs, and in November we met up for four days of in-person rehearsals in Brooklyn before heading down to Magpie Cage Studio in Baltimore to record the album with our old friend J. Robbins. It was pretty incredible working with J., who inspired some crucial changes to the songs, and Ian MacKaye came to the studio for two days to help make them even stronger.

A Brief Moment in the Sun is a narrative LP, full of stories: some based on Bobby’s personal experiences and others addressing volatile sociopolitical themes, including an historical perspective on racial oppression in the United States. In both the music and the lyrics, this new album picks up where Soulside left off years ago—but with zero nostalgia in the mix. 

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A Brief Moment in the Sun:

01 Times Like These
02 Day 2
03 Every Clover
04 Reconstruction
05 Runner
06 Walker
07 Tambourine
08 70’s Heroes
09 Resolved
10 Rediscovery
11 Survival
12 It’s All About Love

Soulside:

09-21 Washington, D.C. – Black Cat #$
09-22 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church #$
09-23 Somerville, MA – Once at the Armory #$
09-24 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom #$
09-25 Middletown, RI – Rejects Brewery #

# with Verbal Assault
$ with Bed Maker