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”Are passion and purpose these kind of capitalistic prison bars? Are these things that we’re sold to keep us fighting for some ideas that doesn’t exist, so that we are content existing in this system?”

”We’ve never said ‘hiatus,’ we’ve never said ‘broken up,’ we’ve never said any of those words.”

”These songs began as conscious and subconscious attempts to work out my feelings after the passings of Riley and Wade. I was hoping to distract myself but also offer comfort,” Ned says.

Title Fight’s breakthrough, hugely influential, and enduring sophomore album ‘Floral Green’ turned 10, and we looked back on it and caught up with bassist/co-vocalist Ned Russin and producer Will Yip to discuss it…

Ned’s book ‘Horizontal Rust’ is ”a story about trying to understand boredom, abstract expressionism, family, personal narratives, and Wilkes-Barre.”

The album offers up 10 short, fast tracks of heavy, gnarly, purposeful hardcore that, to quote Title Fight’s Ned Russin, ”questions the necessity of war in the bluntest of terms and tones.”

Ned breaks down five songs/records and one book that inspired the making of his upcoming Glitterer album, ‘Life Is Not A Lesson.’

The video for the song features tons of awesome musicians and their pets, including Julien Baker, Jim Adkins, Walter Schreifels, Aaron Weiss, Frank Iero, Tim McIlrath, Barry Johnson, Ned Russin, Tim Kasher, Mike Park, and many more…

The first single is ”Destiny,” and if you liked the shoegazy direction Title Fight went in on Hyperview, you’ll probably like this too.

Geoff sang with them on “Flowers and You” off last year’s ‘Stage Four,’ and Ned sang on Title Fight’s “Crescent-Shaped Depression,” which Touche covered for their 2011 split with Title Fight.