Church Tongue have announced the release of their upcoming album You’ll Know It Was Me which lands on 14 February 2025.
The six track EP features the Midwest band’s newly released single Bury Me (One Thousand Times).
Church Tongue’s You’ll Know It Was Me promises to be complex, uncompromising and emotionally charged. It features guests Colin Young (Hardlore podcast), George Clarke (Deafheaven) and Crystal Pak (Initiate). The EP is expected to deliver abrasive guitars, riffs and vicious vocals whilst addressing subjects including new-found sobriety and declarations of love.
Speaking about the EP Church Tongue’s vocalist Mike Sugars said, “You’ll Know It Was Me is a short record about love. Love looks like a lot of things, and each track touches on it in its own way. People close to me have heard about me wanting to make this kind of record for a long time. I just hadn’t grown enough to realise the dream of it, and I knew it had to be a Church Tongue record. I’ve been with this band, these guys, for the majority of my life now. I’ve made records with other bands, and so have the other guys, but this idea felt sacred to my beginnings. I knew this record was in us, was who we are, and I’m honoured to have made it with my brothers.”
“Thematically,” adds guitarist Nicko Calderon, “Mike wanted to write about the different kinds of love and the different ways that you can love—for example, loving yourself enough to end a toxic friendship, or loving yourself enough to become sober. And the very last song is quite literally a love song for him and his wife, about how if he dies before her, he will haunt her forever.”
Image of Church Tongue courtesy Perri leigh
