Bent Knee’s fifth studio album You Know What They Mean is out now. It’s a new direction for the band, the culmination of a tumultuous 2018, written “from the waist down” as a mentor suggested before production began. I'm incredibly proud of how we've evolved, sonically and otherwise, over the past decade. Listen at bent-knee.lnk.to/YouKnowWhatTheyMean and watch the new video for Catch Light at youtu.be/ACk8LBO-C3A.
There have been a number of insightful, though-provoking reviews since the record came out, but my favorite thus far comes from Heavy Blog Is Heavy:
"In these days, when much of mainstream music (whether metal, rock or pop) seems infatuated with the stripped back, the distant, the cold, the marketable, and the ironically disengaged, Bent Knee are a veritable whirlwind of honesty and daring. 'You Know What They Mean' is, somehow, both their largest and smallest album, channeling the bursts of grandiose, emotional candor, and sheer musicality that has always made the band tick into one of the most energetic releases of their career and, indeed, their genre. It is, simply put, a joy to listen to, to scream to, to cry to, and to dance to. Get on it." shorturl.at/fqsz8
To support the album, we’ll be hitting the road with Thank You Scientist and The Tea Club. Tour dates below. Tickets available at bentkneemusic.com/tour.
10.14 Boston MA | Great Scott
11.7 Rochester NY | Montage Music Hall
11.8 Akron OH | Musica
11.9 Grand Rapids MI | The Pyramid Scheme
11.10 Chicago IL | Beat Kitchen
11.12 Minneapolis MN | 7th St Entry
11.13 Iowa City IA | Gabe's
11.14 St Louis MO | Firebird
11.15 Lawrence KS | The Bottleneck
11.16 Denver CO | Globe Hall
11.17 Salt Lake City UT | Urban Lounge
11.19 Seattle WA | Columbia City Theater
11.20 Vancouver BC | The Rickshaw Theatre
11.21 Portland OR | Dante’s
11.22 Sacramento CA | Holy Diver
11.23 San Jose CA | The Ritz
11.24 Los Angeles CA | Bootleg Theater
11.25 Santa Ana CA | Constellation Room
11.27 Scottsdale AZ | Pub Rock Live
11.29 Austin TX | Empire Control Room
11.30 Dallas TX | Three Links
12.1 Houston TX | White Oak Music Hall
12.3 Atlanta GA | The Masquerade
12.4 Tampa FL | Crowbar
12.5 Charlotte NC | The Social
12.6 Greenville NC | The State Theater
12.7 Richmond CA | Canal Club
12.8 Washington DC | Union Stage
12.10 Pittsburgh PA | Thunderbird Music Hall
12.11 Philadelphia PA | Underground Arts
12.12 Fairfield CT | StageOne
12.13 Asbury Park NJ | Asbury Lanes
12.14 New York NY | Mercury Lounge
