“Truest Sound” is Clothesline From Hell’s final single ahead of the release of his new album Slather On The Honey, available January 16, 2026 via 444%. “”Truest Sound” is a quiet closer, indebted to a lineage of final songs that are stripped back acoustic moments,” Adam LaFramboise reflects. A poignant note for the album to finish with, the title itself refers to the silence that comes after conflicts have been aired.” “Truest Sound” follows previous single “Open Up”, made with Matt Tavares (formerly of BADBADNOTGOOD). It was the first time he had deliberately written a pop song.

Clothesline From Hell then wrote Slather On The Honey. The record is the journey LaFramboise began almost a decade ago. In his earliest days, he wrote songs in bands that rarely made space for them. Feeling sidelined, he began recording alone, using his phone as a studio. Early tracks, often in strange tunings, were sold as five-dollar tapes at shows and uploaded to Bandcamp as “glorified demos.” Slowly, they reached small pockets of listeners who connected with their raw intimacy. Messages trickled in from other DIY artists, kids on the internet who wanted to know what tuning he was using or who simply told him the songs inspired them. “I was just happy to have had a few messages every now and then from kids basically just saying they really liked the songs and that they thought it was inspiring,” he recalls.

LaFramboise wrote and produced every track on the album, still using his phone as the main initial recording device, but then building them from layered guitars, vocals, drums, and strings before bringing in collaborators to expand the sound. Josh McIntyre (Prince Innocence) and Nate Burley (Young Clancy) added bass, keys, and production. Curtis Everett Pauley (The Life) shaped “Play Me”, “Annie”, and “Girl Music”. Tavares returned for “Drug of Choice”, with piano and synths cutting against LaFramboise’s restless arrangements. Jono Currier contributed guitar to “On Ice” and the project at large was mixed by Lars Stalfors (The Dare, Mars Volta) and mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty.

Clothesline From Hell
Slather On The Honey
Tracklist

Slather On The Honey
On Ice
Play Me, Annie
Drug Of Choice
Whoever You Are…
Girl Music
L’arp
Truest Sound

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