{"id":27026,"date":"2025-09-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:32:23","slug":"home-front-watch-it-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27026","title":{"rendered":"HOME FRONT &#8211; &#8216;Watch It Die&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW ALBUM\u00a0&#8216;WATCH IT DIE&#8217; COMING 14TH NOVEMBER 2025 VIA LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-6.jpeg 532w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-6-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>HOME&nbsp;FRONT<\/strong>&nbsp;holds on to a particular kind of passion. The sort of thing that guides you &#8211; like a climbing vine steadily blanketing your bests and worsts, cutting through changes and impasses; victory and loss. This passion, their drive, is what makes a record like&nbsp;<strong><em>Watch It Die<\/em><\/strong>, their latest full-length for<strong>&nbsp;La Vida Es Un Mus<\/strong>, feel just right. For decades the duo&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Graeme MacKinnon&nbsp;<\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Clint Frazier<\/strong>&nbsp;have embedded themselves in grass roots music making, community building, and the overpowering ebbs and flows of diy punk.&nbsp;&nbsp;With&nbsp;<strong>Home Front<\/strong>, formed in 2020, they\u2019ve given their lifetime of experience a chance to distil and then power into this musically omnipotent project which equally conjures textured Tangerine Dream sounds in a film montage, or the pummelling soundtrack to the first steps taken towards winning the fight of your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its lead single \u201c<strong>Light Sleeper\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;sends energy waves rattling through speakers with all the urgency and volume of post punk\/new wave\/street punk. The track&nbsp;is available&nbsp;alongside its video which features a cast of characters including Home Front touring members&nbsp;<strong>Brandi Strauss<\/strong>&nbsp;(bass),&nbsp;<strong>Ian Rowley<\/strong>&nbsp;(guitar), and&nbsp;<strong>Warren Oostlander<\/strong>&nbsp;(drums).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HOME FRONT - Light Sleeper (Official Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cqgXrGrIguU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Home Front\u2019s nod to influences and the themes of their lyrics are direct and detailed while maintaining enough creative distance to feel universal and unique. The production has again been bolstered by a team of long time confidants making a huge and unique record under the humble and hard working circumstances of remote pre-production and choosing to do their recording in home studios in their home town in Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1-300x298.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1-768x762.png 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mail-1-1.png 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The architecture of &#8216;Watch It Die&#8217; is simple &#8211; 12 songs of danceable, hummable, rousing and honest music that only Home Front could make. The emotion of this LP is what solidifies these musical notions into meaningful art. \u201cFor us, ultimately, this is music that comes out of loss and heartbreak and failure, but I hope people have a good time listening to us. You can get rowdy, you can get emotional, you can do whatever you want, but maybe with all of that freedom, we all take a second to reflect on all our fallen brothers and sisters and friends who may have slipped away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On previous revered recordings&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goodasgoldgroup.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4e19afdafc8aaaac79b7f12ac&amp;id=884bfd606c&amp;e=39e40562fa\"><em>Games of Power<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(2023) and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goodasgoldgroup.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4e19afdafc8aaaac79b7f12ac&amp;id=0aef4ef6a7&amp;e=39e40562fa\"><em>Think of the Lie<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(2021), Frazier and MacKinnon gave us a snapshot of a cynical and alienating world. A place where hope was tempered by insignificance, exhaustion takes us, and where 2,000,000 voices screaming in unison can still go unheard. Watch It Die instead of asking us why and how we got here, struggling to cope with the sadness of a desperate world, brings us their \u201cstep forward\u201d moment. A dose of optimism and ownership in the bleakest of times in which maybe it doesn\u2019t have to feel so bad to be alone or desperate. Where the passage of time is not coloured by the nostalgia of a lost youth but more toward the celebration of wisdom earned. Watch it Die owns the ills it describes and catapults us alongside its creators who have the confidence and presence of mind to live beyond their limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch It Die&nbsp;<\/strong>continues along the path of Games of Power, but it isn\u2019t just a sequel. It is a road map of hope. MacKinnon and Frazier state,&nbsp;<em>\u201cFor all of us in Home Front, \u2018Watch It Die\u2019 comes at a very transformative time. Geopolitically, musically and in our personal lives. With friends and close family members dying, to massive uncertainty around the world, this album encapsulates what it\u2019s like for us to step into a \u2018new world\u2019 where all the old adages of \u2018everything is gonna work out fine\u2019 feel like a joke. We watch rich people get richer while the rest of us struggle just to get by. We watch colonisers kill without consequence, and in an age of information at our fingertips we watch people choosing to be ignorant to what\u2019s going on around them. \u2018Watch It Die\u2019 speaks about our own humanity, a rebirth into a new world and how we can never go back to the way things were. We suffer for their dreams, but in saying that we must recognise the importance of our own community and look to energise them to build a better way of life. We have always been an anti-war, anti-genocide, pro-peace band. We are against crimes to human rights and all of those struggling through the horrors of imperialism. We stand with the people of Palestine and we stand with the Canadian Indigenous communities who struggle to uphold treaty rights as well as basic human rights like clean drinking water and generational trauma. One takeaway from our music is to make a safe space where our community can come together to air out grievances and find a better way to a new future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodasgoldgroup.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4e19afdafc8aaaac79b7f12ac&amp;id=9bdf6fb8da&amp;e=39e40562fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Pre-Order \/ Pre-Save\u00a0<em>Watch It Die<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br><br>\u00a0The band will play two shows in LA later this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sat Nov 22 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Hollywood Paladium w\/ Cock Sparrer, Dillinger Four and Castillo<br>Sun Nov 23 &#8211;&nbsp;Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Hollywood Paladium w\/ Cock Sparrer, Dillinger Four and Generacion Suicida<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><strong>&#8216;WATCH IT DIE&#8217;&nbsp; WILL BE RELEASED 14TH NOVEMBER 2025 VIA LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ALBUM\u00a0&#8216;WATCH IT DIE&#8217; COMING 14TH NOVEMBER 2025 VIA LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS HOME&nbsp;FRONT&nbsp;holds on to a particular kind of passion. The sort of thing that guides you &#8211; like a climbing vine steadily blanketing your bests and worsts, cutting through changes and impasses; victory and loss. This passion, their drive, is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8863,8862,1787,1710,1681,1680,1833],"class_list":["post-27026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-good-as-gold-pr","tag-home-front","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-tourlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27029,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions\/27029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}