Forth Wanderers announce new album The Longer This Goes On

Forth Wanderers have announced the release of their third studio album The Longer This Goes On for July 18 via Sub Pop, and put out the accompanying lead single ‘7 Months’.

The record was produced by Dan Howard at Chateau Grand Studios and Future Sounds in New York, and mixed and mastered by Al Carlson at Gary's Electric in New York. and marks the group’s first recorded output since the release of Forth Wanderers, their 2018 Sub Pop debut.

The music video for ‘7 Months’ was directed by band member Noah Yu Schifrin and his sister Elisabeth Schifrin.

Check it out below:

Marking their first release since the band’s dissolution in 2018, The Longer This Goes On began in a Brooklyn coffee shop during the summer of 2021. There, band members Ben Guterl and Ava Trilling met for the first time since Forth Wanderers dissolution.

“We talked for four or five hours about everything under the sun,” Trilling explained. “At the tail end of our conversation, Ben asked if I wanted to try making music again.” The question took her by surprise, but Trilling agreed.

“It felt like there wasn’t as much riding on the band,” Guterl added. “We all felt free to mess around and have fun.” Guterl remembers the reassurance he felt when he reconnected to play music with bassist Noah Schifrin, guitarist Duke Greene, and drummer Zach Lorelli: “It felt the best it had between us since we had started the band. It felt like we were just in high school again.”

From the bottom up, the band reimagined the way they were used to working. “Prior to this, the band built songs from demos Ben would send us,” Schifrin explained. “This is the first time where a lot of the music was formed organically.” “All five of us really contributed to the writing process in ways that we hadn’t before in the past,” Guterl concluded.

You can pre-order The Longer This Goes On here.

Find the full tracklist below:

1. 'To Know Me/To Love Me'
2. 'Call You Back'
3. 'Honey'
4. '7 Months'
5. 'Spit'
6. 'Springboard'
7. 'Make Me'
8. 'Barnard'
9. 'Bluff'
10. 'Don't Go Looking'