Melbourne-based five-piece CIVIC return with their visceral new full-length studio album, Taken By Force, out February 10.
The LP was recorded in the Castlemaine countryside with Radio Birdman frontman Rob Younger producing, and was mixed and mastered by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Current). Today’s news comes with the release of Taken By Force’s lead single and music video for End of the Line, watch HERE and stream via your preferred DSP HERE.
“I wrote that song about a solo trip I took around Europe in my early 20s, and the anxiety of realizing I had no one to protect me but myself. It’s about the realization of your own mortality, and finding peace in a chaotic moment that you have no control over.” – Jim McCullough (vocalist)
Taken By Force is CIVIC’s follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2021 debut full-length Future Forecast – an album of songs that showcased the band’s frenetic yet melodic sound coupled with introspective lyrics. Taken By Force picks up where their debut left off, seeing CIVIC joyfully obliterate the line between furious catharsis and unbridled fun. It’s an album the band aptly sums up as “1984 meets Endless Summer.” CIVIC have reimagined the reckless intensity of proto-punk for an era of endless uncertainty to become one of the most exhilarating bands to emerge in recent years.
To celebrate the release of End Of The Line, the band will hit the tracks for a string of shows in November/December, starting in the heart of the Melbourne CBD, and stopping at some of Victoria’s most loved suburban music venues, situated at the distant ends of Melbourne’s iconic rail network.
CIVIC, The Prize, Dragnet
