††† (CROSSES) — DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno‘s challenge with FAR guitarist Shaun Lopez — will launch its sophomore album, “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.”, on October 13 by way of Warner. The follow-up to ††† (CROSSES)’s 2014 self-titled album will function visitor appearances by THE CURE vocalist Robert Smith and El-P of RUN THE JEWELS.

††† (CROSSES) has launched two extra songs from “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.”: “Mild As A Feather” and “Ghost Trip”. Verify them out beneath.

“Once we began engaged on ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’, there was a lot extra gentle coming in my life, for quite a few causes,” Moreno mentioned in a press launch. “There’s much more optimism. Even the darker themes are extra romanticized and never coming from a spot of despair.”

Final month, ††† (CROSSES) launched the official music video for the LP’s first single, “Invisible Hand”, directed by Lopez and Lorenzo Carrera. Watch it beneath.

“Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.” observe itemizing:

01. Pleasure
02. Invisible Hand
03. Discovered
04. Mild As A Feather
05. Pulseplagg
06. Runner
07. Large Youth (feat. El-P)
08. Finish Youth (Reprise)
09. Final Rites
10. Ghost Trip
11. Grace
12. Eraser
13. Pure Choice
14. Women Float † Boys Cry (feat. Robert Smith)
15. Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.

††† (CROSSES) has additionally introduced the next dwell appearances:

Nov. 13 – Los Angeles, CA – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery
Nov. 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery
Nov. 15 – Los Angeles, CA – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery
Nov. 18 – Huntington Seashore, CA – Darker Waves Competition
Nov. 28 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
Nov. 29 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
Dec. 04 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
Dec. 05 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel

††† (CROSSES) issued its self-titled debut in 2014. Final 12 months, the duo launched the six-song “Everlasting.Radiant” EP, which was later made accessible as a remixed model with reworked songs courtesy of Hudson Mohawke, Machinedrum, Suicideyear and Away.

In December 2021, Lopez confirmed that ††† (CROSSES) had signed a brand new cope with Warner Information. That very same month, ††† (CROSSES) dropped its cowl of Q Lazzarus‘s “Goodbye Horses” as a digital single. The observe was beforehand coated by ††† (CROSSES) again in 2014.

Previous to “Goodbye Horses”‘ digital arrival, ††† (CROSSES)‘s final launch was a canopy of “The Starting Of The Finish” by ’90s electropop band CAUSE & EFFECT. Made accessible in December 2020, it was the primary new music from the choice band since its 2014-released, self-titled file.

Moreno instructed The Pulse Of Radio how he obtained concerned with the group within the first place, which was began by Lopez and Chuck Doom. “Shaun and Chuck have been working collectively for some time earlier than I got here into the image, and I simply so occurred to come back in at some point,” he mentioned. “These guys have been, you understand, writing some stuff and I heard it and I preferred it proper off the bat, and I kind of weaseled my manner [Laughs] into the challenge. I believe their thought was to get a bunch of various singers to, you understand, simply write totally different tracks, and… it did not occur.”

††† (CROSSES)’s CD included the songs from the band’s two beforehand launched EPs together with 5 new tracks.

Moreno instructed Rolling Stone about ††† (CROSSES)’ sound: “By listening to the music, you’ll be able to inform that a number of the influences come from the new-wave period. That was principally the scene that I got here up on. I simply occurred to wind up in a metallic band after I was 15.”

Requested about ††† (CROSSES)’s heavy use of the cross within the band’s imagery and songtitles, Moreno mentioned: “I believe a number of bands are influenced by non secular symbolism and never even essentially Christianity or Catholicism. Our band undoubtedly would not comply with any of these. It is extra of the aesthetic. The artwork, the way in which it really works. The preliminary title of the band was going to be HOLY GHOST. However on the final minute, one other band got here out with the title, so Shaun steered CROSSES. It is a very robust image. Three crosses is nice. It is nice to have a look at, there’s three of us within the band.”

††† (CROSSES) made its dwell debut in January 2012 at The Glass Home in Pomona, California.