Selfish Things Announce New Album 'Receptivity'

Selfish Things Announce New Album ‘Receptivity’

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Selfish Things have shared all the details of their upcoming album ‘Receptivity’, as well as an emotional new single.

The follow-up to the duo’s 2019 debut album ‘Logos’ will arrive on October 09 via FLG, and it’s a very important one.

Reflecting on frontman Alex Biro’s journey to sobriety, it takes a powerful look at the realities of addiction and recovery. Distinctly human and vitally raw, it marks the return of a very special band.

Now four years clean and working as a sober coach and counsellor within the music industry, it’s also the start of a bright new chapter for Alex.

Speaking openly on ‘Receptivity’, he has shared:

“This wasn’t supposed to be an album. It’s still not really an album to me, or to any of us. More just… closure, I guess. I was at the beginning of my full-blown addiction on the last tour we ever did before COVID stopped the world in 2020. I hated myself and I hated the world more than I really knew at the time. I’m four years sober on the 18th of May, working as a sober coach and clinician with folks who struggle with the same things I do, even in my recovery. The profits will be donated to the hospital where I went to rehab, and (admittedly), we don’t really know where to go (or if we’ll go anywhere with it) afterward.

“The only thing that’s brought me peace in the aftermath of the cataclysm of my addiction is being of service to others. I think deep down, releasing this for whoever needs to hear it is an extension of that. Everything beautiful blooms from the mud. Everything beautiful grows from the dirt. This is for those who can accept that the things they’ve been through can either be the poison cup they sip from or the counterweight that lifts themselves and others up. That being imperfect is being human. And that suffering is singular, and universal.”

Take a listen to emotional new single ‘Effigy’ below.

Speaking on that reflective new track, Alex has said:

“Admittedly – this was a song I hated that quickly became everyone’s favourite. I wrote the lyrics in an hour at the lowest point of my sobriety in 2022. I can’t say anything about it beyond it was stream of consciousness, clearly blistering, and is something I can’t listen to often without feeling shit I’ve tried to bury. I hope it brings you peace.”

The album is also set to feature ‘Sunlight’, which arrived earlier this year.

A stark, confessional alt-rock track written towards the start of Alex’s journey to sobriety, take a listen to that one below.