Awful Din Are Done With Their Bodies and Their New Album Proves It

Brooklyn melodic-punk mainstays Awful Din are releasing their new album ANTI BODY on January 28 – a tightly woven, emotionally loaded record that digs into the breakdown between mind and body. It’s a collection about dissociation, chronic illness, identity erosion, and the unsettling moment when you stop feeling like the pilot of your own body and become a passenger.

Across the album, Awful Din build a coherent emotional arc: from the physical collapse and injury explored in tracks like “Foot Punk,” to the self-sacrifice story of “Vietnam,” to the disorienting identity shifts in “No Mystery.” The record pushes toward its final eruption in “We Have We Are We Will,” a cathartic rejection of a body that no longer feels like home. While there’s room for levity – “Big’s In Paris Now,” built entirely from Sex and the City quotes – the album as a whole channels frustration, fear, and estrangement rather than healing.

Musically, ANTI BODY sharpens the band’s signature crunchy guitars and emo-inflected hooks while leaning into heavier dynamics and more expansive arrangements. It’s Awful Din’s most cohesive and thematically unified work yet, following a decade of evolution across EPs and their 2022 LP Only Constantly.

Stream the new album here.