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The band credits their treasured chemistry to their intertwining histories as friends and collaborators. Rowe and Latus have made music together since they were teenagers, growing up in Indianapolis’ heavy music scene, while playing in the band Still. Rowe and Wagster create sweeping, pastoral instrumental music together in Mute Duo. Reyes and Solotroff are old friends who’ve played together for many years and they continue to record and perform in both BLOODYMINDED and The Fortieth Day. This deep connective tissue contributes to what the band describes as consistently effortless writing sessions and innately unified live performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey recorded this album with Sanford Parker, who has been working with the band in the studio for over a decade, including on their 2014 album, “Ciphers + Axioms” (Relapse). Parker also handled mixing duties. Collin Jordan (Boiler Room Mastering) took care of mastering, as he’s done with two previous albums for the band. Like their last album, “Black Openings” includes three songs. The opener is the title track, which will align with what some people think of when referring to an archetypal side-long Anatomy of Habit song. It is built from three distinct movements that range from a calmer opening section, to an extended atmospheric instrumental passage, to an escalating mass of pure heaviness. “Formal Consequences” starts of the B-Side and it introduces greater shimmer to the band’s sound, with Solotroff’s voice submerged in a vast swirl of guitar atmosphere. “Breathing Through Bones” closes the album and it is a mournful song that links back to earlier Anatomy of Habit compositions like “After The Water” and “The Decade Plan,” but here, the group ups-the-ante with a vein of taught, slow burning tension. Along with the band’s core instrumentation, listeners will recognize piano, organ, analog synth, and vibraphone, similar to the array of sounds on “Even If It Takes A Lifetime.” Thematically, the album continues to elaborate on Solotroff’s expressions of love and loss, the abstracted and vanishing self, and complexities within the creative process. It further explores the concept of obliteration and it propels the idea to a dreadful new terminus point. The concept of the inner drive that keeps pushing a person forward, which Solotroff explored on “Even If It Takes A Lifetime,” takes on a new meaning here, when the harrowing black hole of the title track opens up and swallows you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is being released on LP, CD, cassette, and digital. The LP was pressed on heavyweight white vinyl by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. It is housed in a jacket and a printed inner sleeve, both of which feature artwork created by Solotroff. The LP also includes a large folded poster featuring the full album artwork, printed in black ink on white newsprint and measuring 22.75\"x33\". The CD is packaged in a six-panel color digipak, like all previous Anatomy of Habit CDs. The cassette version includes white shells and a four-panel color insert. 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Since forming in 2008, the group has carved out a singular space at the intersection of post punk, doom metal, early industrial, noise rock, and shoegaze – an approach that critics have consistently described as immersive, genre resistant, and emotionally exacting. Across their catalog, reviewers have highlighted the band’s long form structures, patient intensity, and the way their music rewards deep, sustained listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaired Sentinels extends this trajectory. Written by Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal percussion), Skyler Rowe (drums), Mark Solotroff (vocals and analog synth), and Sam Wagster (bass guitar and lap steel guitar), the album reflects a group whose internal chemistry has reached a rare equilibrium. This lineup’s interplay – refined over years of collaboration – shapes the album’s dynamic language: Latus’s shifting guitar constructions, Reyes’s metallic resonance and rhythmic abrasion, Rowe’s precise and intuitive drumming, Wagster’s grounding low end and spectral lap steel textures, and Solotroff’s commanding vocal presence and synth atmospheres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded and mixed by Sanford Parker – marking the band’s fourth collaboration with the renowned producer – and mastered by Collin Jordan, Paired Sentinels bears the sonic clarity and weight that have become hallmarks of Anatomy of Habit’s most focused era. The cover features Untitled (Sedlec Ossuary) (2022) by artist Jeff Gibson, a layered montage of anatomical diagrams, urban structures, and reflective surfaces. Drawing its name from the Czech chapel famed for its bone architecture, the piece meditates on mortality, memory, and the aesthetics of decay. It serves as a fitting visual counterpart to Paired Sentinels – a record concerned with emotional thresholds, the erosion of identity, and the delicate frameworks that hold desire in place. Jonathan Canady, who has designed all of the band’s releases, returns once more to shape the album’s visual presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross its four tracks – “Always Arriving,” “Conditions for Freedom,” “The Importance of Risk,” and the title piece “Paired Sentinels” – the album explores repetition, memory, identity, and the unstable structures that shape longing and loss. Solotroff’s lyrics move between stark observation and internal monologue, tracing cycles of obsession, dislocation, and renewal. The language is compressed, incantatory, and ritualistic, echoing the band’s longstanding interest in psychological excavation and the tension between interior and exterior worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, Paired Sentinels deepens the ensemble’s collective vocabulary. The compositions unfold with a sense of inevitability, balancing monolithic force with moments of openness and vulnerability. The result is a record that feels both meticulously constructed and emotionally raw – a testament to endurance, collaboration, and the ongoing search for meaning within sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing Even If It Takes a Lifetime (2021) and Black Openings (2023), Paired Sentinels stands as the culmination of the band’s most prolific and unified period. It is their most cohesive and their most vulnerable album, underscoring the group’s commitment to evolution and sustained creative intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album will be released on LP, CD, cassette, and digital. The LP version will include a bonus 7-inch with two instrumental tracks, created by Solotroff using practice space recordings. 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Things begin to stretch out with “Your Pure Breath,” a 14-minute song that ebbs and flows between calmer, slower passages and heavier sections that propel the listener into a more frenzied pace. The album then shifts gears, as the long, atmospheric beginning of “Now We Finally Know Ourselves” builds into a dense, psychedelic soundscape, from which the band emerges with their more familiar play with contrast, over the song’s 19-minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThematically, the album continues Solotroff’s reflections on love and loss, the creative process, the abstracted and vanishing self, and a sense of absolute obliteration. The potentially nostalgic album title may allude to a sense of hope and may indicate that all is not lost, or at least it may point to an inner drive to keep pushing forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe release date will be for the CD, handsomely packaged in a six-panel digipak designed by Jonathan Canady, a longtime creative associate of the band. A cassette version will also be released, with light blue shells and a four-panel insert. The packaging for all formats will incorporate a series of lush, corporeal cyanotypes by New York-based artist Alexandra Lerman, a close friend of Solotroff. The album will also arrive on all streaming platforms on December 10, 2021, and it will be followed by vinyl, as soon as the pressing is completed, taking into account ongoing interruptions in the industry. The vinyl street date will be announced at a later time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnatomy of Habit formed in Chicago in October 2008. Although the band has experienced significant changes since forming, this is their longest-standing and most prolific lineup. It’s no wonder that they’ve gelled the way they have. Rowe and Latus have known each other since they were teenagers, growing up in Indianapolis’ heavy music scene and playing together in the band Still. 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It is built from three distinct movements that range from a calmer opening section, to an extended atmospheric instrumental passage, to an escalating mass of pure heaviness. “Formal Consequences” starts of the B-Side and it introduces greater shimmer to the band’s sound, with Solotroff’s voice submerged in a vast swirl of guitar atmosphere. “Breathing Through Bones” closes the album and it is a mournful song that links back to earlier Anatomy of Habit compositions like “After The Water” and “The Decade Plan,” but here, the group ups-the-ante with a vein of taught, slow burning tension. Along with the band’s core instrumentation, listeners will recognize piano, organ, analog synth, and vibraphone, similar to the array of sounds on “Even If It Takes A Lifetime.” Thematically, the album continues to elaborate on Solotroff’s expressions of love and loss, the abstracted and vanishing self, and complexities within the creative process. It further explores the concept of obliteration and it propels the idea to a dreadful new terminus point. The concept of the inner drive that keeps pushing a person forward, which Solotroff explored on “Even If It Takes A Lifetime,” takes on a new meaning here, when the harrowing black hole of the title track opens up and swallows you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is being released on LP, CD, cassette, and digital. The LP was pressed on heavyweight white vinyl by Smashed Plastic in Chicago. It is housed in a jacket and a printed inner sleeve, both of which feature artwork created by Solotroff. The LP also includes a large folded poster featuring the full album artwork, printed in black ink on white newsprint and measuring 22.75\"x33\". The CD is packaged in a six-panel color digipak, like all previous Anatomy of Habit CDs. The cassette version includes white shells and a four-panel color insert. 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