Placebo are today sharing a brand-new single, ‘Try Better Next Time’. It follows recent new tracks ‘Beautiful James’ and ‘Surrounded By Spies’, the latter of which heralded news of the band’s long-awaited 8th studio album — and first together in almost a decade — Never Let Me Go.
Listen to ‘Try Better Next Time’ and view the visualizer here.
'Never Let Me Go' is released on 25th March 2022. Pre-order the album here.
‘Try Better Next Time’ further opens up what we know about Never Let Me Go’s frank and honest depiction of our modern times. Where opening single ‘Beautiful James’ revealed a stern commentary on the proliferation of ignorant opinions, and follow-up track ‘Surrounded By Spies’ spun themes of tech-saturation, ‘Try Better Next Time’ — the album’s poignant centrepiece — can be easy to mistake as an apocalyptic vision of the future. Instead, we find the band focusing less on endings and more on new beginnings. It’s an anthem for the end of a world that we know — not the end of it completely — and a celebration of the possibility of what might come next, whether humanity has a seat at the table or not.