Rise Against Return With ‘Ricochet’, A Sonic Wake Up Call For A World On The Edge
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Rise Against are set to return with “Ricochet”, their first album in four years (since Nowhere Generation). The Chicago punk veterans drop the new project August 15 via Loma Vista Recordings, a bruising, clear eyed look at how everything we do slams into something else. Call it the butterfly effect with a steel toe boot.
Vocalist Tim McIlrath sums it up:
“We’re all stuck in the same room, whether we like it or not. Everything you throw bounces off someone else, every choice, every action. It’s all one big ricochet.”
And that idea is the record. Global unrest, fractured communities, the illusion of choice in a rage fuelled algorithm, Rise Against don’t just observe it, they throw a sonic wrench in the machine. With production from Catherine Marks (Boygenius, Foals) and mixing from Alan Moulder (NIN, QOTSA), Ricochet sounds massive, but the power lies in the nuance. This is protest music for people sick of noise masquerading as meaning.
The lead single ‘I Want It All’ is already out and burning through speakers, an unapologetic sprint toward self determination, chasing agency in a world that keeps moving the goalposts. The video? A Sisyphean fever dream that captures the emotional grind of trying to push forward while everything slides backward.
‘I Want It All’ follows recent singles ‘Nod’, dubbed “the anthem we need right now” by VICE , and ‘Prizefighter’, which punches through the noise of short attention spans and self doubt.
Lyrically, Ricochet takes on everything from economic disparity to the trap of blind nationalism. But at its core, this record is about chain reactions, how our smallest actions can either save us or bury us. It’s a call to accountability, community, and resistance, even when the world wants you to keep scrolling.
01. Nod 02. I Want It All 03. Ricochet 04. Damage Is Done 05. Us Against The World 06. Black Crown 07. Sink Like A Stone 08. Forty Days 09. State Of Emergency 10. Gold Long Gone 11. Soldier 12. Prizefighter
