AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

16 Jan

As Everything Unfolds have announced the release date for their new album, DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?, on April 10th via Century Media. To mark the announcement, the outfit has also released a new single, ‘GASOLINE’.

‘'Gasoline is a story about that unquantifiable and confusing human bond you get with someone else,” explains lead singer Charlie Rolfe. “That twin flame sensation, that mutual connection with an unknown person, almost like you were destined to be in each other’s lives. During this song it explores an explosive connection, the thought process, the denial in wanting it and the need to turn away from it, even though it feels wrong, you desperately try to keep hold of your life path, ignoring this fated sensation, how heartbreaking and soul destroying it can be. This idea tied in so neatly with the concept of Count Dracula and Mina's relationship from Bram Stoker's Dracula, that otherworldly, toxic and destined love. Similar to Set In Flow, we used the story to visually inspire the music video, to which shots from the video are homages to moments in the 1994 film.'

DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE? is an intimate body of work shaped by grief, trauma, escapism, and the slow, uneasy reckoning with reality. Created during a period of deep upheaval, the album traces a descent from emotional safety and creative momentum into loss, numbness, and disorientation, before cautiously finding motion again.

Anchored in the concept of maladaptive daydreaming, fantasy as both shelter and snare, the songs examine addiction, self-erasure, burnout, fractured connections, and the uneasy question of whether freedom is something to seek or to fear. Influenced by cinema, literature, and subconscious writing, the record evolves sonically and lyrically over time, embracing change rather than resisting it.

The result is not a tidy resolution, but a document of fragility in motion: an album that captures the ongoing, imperfect process of learning how to exist, to grieve, and to keep going.