NYC post-hardcore band Common Sage are following their recent Nostos | Algos EP (featuring collaborations with Thursday’s Geoff Rickly & Steve Pedulla and Further Seems Forever’s Jason Gleason) with their first full-length album for Equal Vision, Closer To, due November 22 (pre-order). Like the EP, the album was produced by The Movielife/I Am The Avalanche member Brett Romnes, and the LP’s got two collaborations with other bands too: there’s one song with Stay Inside (whose Chris Johns used to be in Common Sage) and one with Sainthood Reps.
Common Sage have always had an affinity for early/mid 2000s-era emo/post-hardcore, and new single “Vehicles” leaning into the more pop-centric side of that sound than they ever have before, with a big, soaring chorus. Vocalist Julian Rosen says, “The Heaven’s Gate cult would call their bodies a ‘vehicle’ or ‘container.’ They believed that their current life was only temporary and that they were ultimately meant to ascend to something greater. These were normal, educated people with families and jobs and lives. ‘Vehicles’ is about not being satisfied with your reality, that there may be no meaning to life, and that one day you will die.” Listen and watch the video (directed by Rich Weinberger of Gatherers) below.
Common Sage also have upcoming tour dates, including Between the Buried and Me’s A Home Away From Home mini-fests in Brooklyn and Worcester this weekend that BTBAM actually had to drop off of, but which are going ahead with Hail The Sun, Sweet Pill, A Lot Like Birds, Andres, Moondough, Zeta, Cryptodira, and Lobby Boxer. The Brooklyn Monarch (9/27) edition on Friday also includes The Number Twelve Looks Like You.
After that, Common Sage open Sparta‘s Porcelain 20th anniversary tour, including Brooklyn’s Market Hotel on October 6 with Light Tower (the project of On the Might of Princes/Gracer/Spotlights drummer Chris Enriquez). All dates are listed below.
Tracklist
Witness (featuring Stay Inside)
Vehicles
Come Undone
Shiver
Until I’m Gone
47.
Waste
Bulrushes (featuring Sainthood Reps)
(desiderium)
Patient & Kind
Apparitions
Common Sage — 2024 Tour Dates
SEPTEMBER
27 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Monarch *
28 — Worcester, PA — The Palladium %
OCTOBER
05 — Cambridge, MA — Soma ^
06 — Brooklyn, NY — Market Hotel ^
12 — Baltimore, MD — Ottobar ^
13 — Philadelphia, PA — Kung Fu Necktie ^
DECEMBER
06 — Roseville, CA — Goldfield Trading Post #
07 — Anaheim, CA — Chain Reaction #
08 — West Hollywood, CA — The Roxy #
10 — Denver, CO — Marquis Theater #
* – A Home Away From Home w/ Hail the Sun, Sweet Pill, A Lot Like Birds, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Andres, Moondough, Zeta, Cryptodira, Lobby Boxer
% – A Home Away From Home w/ Hail the Sun, Sweet Pill, A Lot Like Birds, Andres, Moondough, Zeta, Cryptodira, Lobby Boxer
^ — supporting Sparta
# — supporting Reggie & The Full Effect