Personal Trainer today announce their new album Human Assholes will drop on September 4 via Bella Union. The album is the follow-up to their second album Still Willing that was released in Summer 2024. To accompany today’s announcement the band have shared lead single “Punch Drunk Love” with an official video, a track which borrows its title from the Paul Thomas Anderson film of the same name. Frontman and songwriter Willem Smit says: “‘Punch Drunk Love’ reminds me of a very strong feeling of being in love, or at least being infatuated by someone, which can then lead to obsession. The band is joined on this song by Susanne Linssen of Hospital Bombers, one of my favourite Dutch bands, and (ex-member) Franti Maresova.”

Personal Trainer have announced have announced a run of headline shows and festival appearances this Summer and Autumn including a performance at London’s Scala.

Three years of non-stop touring brought Personal Trainer to a freeing realization: no song is ever final, and no show is ever the last. Says Smit: “I think this is where a large part of the band’s spirit comes from.” One of the bigger decisions for Human Assholes was to make the acoustic guitar the starting point. And even more importantly, pen the songs in a physical room with the rest of the band instead of cutting and pasting stuff behind a screen. “Every take that a group of people does simultaneously is a moment that has just happened and is shared by a group of people: if accidents happen, or if things do or do not go off the rails, that is part of what is happening in that performance. You give up some control, but for me, the decision-making became that much easier.”

“I have always looked at the role of music in my life with great enthusiasm,” Smit concludes. “But also in a quite down-to-earth way. It is my greatest passion, but it is also just music, and that is precisely why it is important to me. It is a kind of sandbox I can sit in whenever I want. I have always been able to express myself through it as an outlet, but never was it as evident to me as during this process. It really felt like a ‘safe haven’ to sink my teeth into for days, while everything else wasn’t going so well.”

Personal Trainer
Human Assholes
tracklisting

1. Marvin’s Curtain Up
2. Scrambled Egg
3. Punch Drunk Love
4. Bone
5. Moping
6. Places!
7. The Burrows
8. Barely Guillaume
9. Hole
10. Human Assholes
11. Rim Shot / Event Horizon
12. Tempo
13. Tyres Skid
14. Object Permeance
15. Letter From A Scentless Realm

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