Five (White Lies album)
2019 album by White Lies
Five (stylised as FIVE or ⠋⠊⠧⠑ in Braille) is the fifth studio album by British post-punk band, White Lies. The album was released on 1 February 2019 through PIAS.
Following the tour for their previous album, Friends, White Lies began writing material for their fifth studio album, and entered the studio to record in the Spring and Summer 2018. The album and corresponding lead single, "Time to Give" were jointly announced on 17 September 2018. Three more singles and two music videos were released prior to the February release of the album, including "Believe It" and "Tokyo".
On review aggregator sites such as Album of the Year and Metacritic, Five has enjoyed the highest aggregate ratings of any album the band has released.
Background and recording
During the fall of 2017, the Friends Tour wrapped up, and towards the final month of touring, White Lies began writing new songs for their next studio album. In a September 2017 interview with Digital Spy Harry McVeigh said that the band planned to begin recording in 2018 for their next album. Ahead of recording, McVeigh also said sound-wise, the demos for Five had more guitar emphasis than synthesizer emphasis, which was a bit of a departure from their previous couple albums. "Listening to the songs we have already, they are quite a bit more guitar-heavy than the demos we had for the last album."
During this time, the band's contract with BMG ended leaving them stranded to find another record label before working on a new album. Lead singer, Harry McVeigh, described the period between BMG and PIAS as stressful saying "there was a little bit of pressure, we self-funded it so after we recorded the record we were thinking, ‘Oh fuck, are we actually going to get a record deal?'" In an interview with Josh Williams and Dork magazine, bassist Charles Cave revealed that BMG pressured them to create more radio-friendly music in order to profit for the new German investors for BMG. Cave said in regards to new contract negotiations that "we just didn't pursue it.
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