[Cover photo credit to Heidi Weber (c.o. The Daydream Library Series)]

UK-based Noise Rock outfit Schande have announced a new LP, Once Around, due in April 2024 via The Daydream Library Series, the house record label of Ecstatic Peace Library operated by Thurston & Eva Moore.

Alongside this announcement, Schande has shared “Relevant Campaigns,” written by frontwoman Jen Chochinov (and mixed by French musician Nopse). 

Jen Chochinov explains:

I had written this song when my mother’s illness returned and I both wanted and needed to create something beautiful for her. It was a way to conjure love and healing and try to balance out my own fear and anxiety which felt all too consuming. After my mom passed away at the end of 2023, this song being released now feels like a gifted timely reminder to hold on to what was shared while navigating loss. ‘Relevant Campaigns’ is essentially about picking your battles, to really assess where your priorities and energies lay because time is such a finite resource. More to the point it’s about choosing love, hope, and resilience.

The track comes with an animated music video co-created by Sarah Lippett and Duncan Barrett, featuring a silent dialogue between its protagonist and the moon.

Chochinov adds:

Sarah and I are both people who look to the moon for counsel, so I like to think of this song as a soundtrack for moon-dreamers who do the same.