Invader (Regurgitator album)

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Invader
Regurgitator, Invader, 2024.jpg
Studio album by
Released26 April 2024
Length36:32
Label
Producer Regurgitator
Regurgitator chronology
Quarter Pounder: 25 Years of Being Consumed
(2019)
Invader
(2024)
Singles from Invader
  1. "This Is Not a Pop Song"
    Released: 15 March 2024
  2. "Cocaine Runaway"
    Released: 12 April 2024
  3. "Epic"
    Released: 23 April 2024
  4. "Pest"
    Released: 7 May 2024

Invader is the eleventh studio album by Australian rock band Regurgitator, their first since the children's record The Really Really Really Really Boring Album in 2019. It was released on 26 April 2024. [1] Invader is a self-produced work predominantly recorded and mixed by Quan and Geoff Wilson. [2] The album also includes collaborations with Indigenous Australian rapper JK-47 on the track "Dirty Old Men" and Indigenous author and academic Tyson Yunkaporta on "The Bastard Poem No-One Wanted". [3]

Contents

First single "This Is Not a Pop Song" featuring Peaches was released on 15 March 2024 with the companion video following. The video has visual synth FX by Stephen Jones, a former member of Severed Heads and was edited by Yeomans. The second version is presented in a vertical 1080×1920 format. [4] [5] The track debuted at number 15 on the AIR Independent Label Singles Chart of 18 March 2024. [6]

Second single "Cocaine Runaway" was released on 12 April 2024. Its video was directed and edited by Yeomans and features Brian Canham of Pseudo Echo. The clip also has two versions, with the second in a vertical 1080×1920 format. [7] The third single "Epic" was released on 23 April 2024.

A supporting tour will begin soon after the album's release. The It's So Invasive Tour will start in Hobart, Tasmania, and end in Cairns, Queensland, with 23 dates. Supporting acts across the tour will include Party Dozen, the Subculture Clique, Displeasure, Cry Club, Wolfpack, Monster Zoku Onsomb!, and Dubbzone. [8]

Track listing

  1. "Cocaine Runaway" – 3:44
  2. "Pest" – 2:30
  3. "This Is Not a Pop Song" (featuring Peaches) – 2:40
  4. "Australiyeah" – 2:50
  5. "Epic" – 2:52
  6. "That's Not Nermal" – 0:56
  7. "Content" – 2:52
  8. "The Bastard Poem That Nobody Wanted" (featuring Tyson Yunkaporta) – 2:45
  9. "Invader" – 3:02
  10. "The Edge of Losing It" – 2:02
  11. "Dirty Old Men" (featuring JK-47) – 3:31
  12. "Pee Pee Man" – 0:46
  13. "Wrong People" – 2:01
  14. "Tsunami" – 4:06

Charts

Chart performance for Invader
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Australian Physical Albums (ARIA) [9] 50

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