Criteria have dropped “Lean Out,” the track is off the Omaha band’s forthcoming album LP Seize!, available May 22, via Spartan Records. From vocalist/guitarist: Stephen Pedersen (ex-Cursive). “This song is about when frustration boils over into action,” Pedersen said. “Bluntly, this song is about letting off steam over work and how healthy, trusting, generative relationships at work can devolve, change and ultimately frustrate your passion for the job — a professional sob story.”

Seize! was recorded over seven winter days at ARC Studios in Omaha with producer Matt Bayles and mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, SEIZE! channels what Pedersen calls “pristinely heavy rock, drawing from the symphonic guitars of Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream era, the pulse and syncopation of Battles, and the tension of Quicksand. Pedersen had the following to share about the album. These songs feel like alchemy under pressure — love as the undertow, empathy as survival, and seizing the moment as it seizes you.”

Criteria
Seize!
track listing
Spartan Records

Be the Spark
Carbon Copy Now
You Maketh Me
Embrace The Strange
I am the End
Heavy Return
Running out of…
I am the Son
Wait a Minute
Lean Out
Works in Progress
Seize!

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