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SAVE FACE set to release debut album ‘Merci’

• 31st May 2018

New Jersey-based rock band Save Face have announced a July 13th release date for their full-length debut, ‘Merci’. The album is the band’s first release for Epitaph.

Save Face have also shared their video for ‘Heartache,’ a track featured on ‘Merci’. With its artful use of colour and perspective, the video is shot from the bleary point-of-view of its protagonist, an element both beautiful and unsettling in effect.

With its catchy-yet-off-kilter and viscerally charged sound, ‘Merci’ is a concept album about an addict dealing with post-rehab relationship struggles and an eventual paranoia-fueled meltdown. Partly inspired by the theatricality of such bands as Queen, ‘Merci’ is driven by a dramatic tension that reflects Save Face’s mission of making emotionally complex, multi-faceted art.

“I think the biggest challenge is writing something that has merit in an artistic context while still being palatable and digestible for an average listener,” notes vocalist/guitarist Tyler Povanda, whose bandmates include guitarist Phil McGarry, bassist Chris Aveta, and drummer Chris Flannery. “I want someone to put these songs on while they’re having a great day the same way they can listen to it while going through a crisis.”

Formed in 2012, Save Face released their debut EP ‘Folly’ in 2016. Last November, the band delivered ‘Folly: On The Rocks’—a stripped-down, partly acoustic, more intimate rendition of that EP. With their remarkable work ethic, Save Face have played hundreds of shows per year, spending an impressive nine months on the road in 2017 (including a run with their labelmates The Menzingers).

SAVE FACE – MERCI – TRACKLIST
1. Merci
2. Bad
3. Blues
4. Heartache
5. Weak
6. Jonesin’
7. Pour
8. Mercy
9. Plans
10. Nothin’
11. Reds
12. Love
13. Rien
14. Yours