Rob Swire electrified Pendulum fans and lit up Twitter yesterday with the surprise announcement that he was mulling over the decision to make a new Pendulum album. Pendulum’s last album was Immersion in 2010 so it’s been a long time since the world has been able to press play on new music from the group.
I am so fucking bored of EDM and lit drops and Serum patches and fEsTiVaL bAsS. I'm gonna make a new Pendulum album
— Rob Swire (@rob_swire) August 10, 2017
It's going to have guitars and vox and dnb and be completely irrelevant, which I'm starting to think might actually be a good thing
— Rob Swire (@rob_swire) August 10, 2017
In June of this year, Pendulum came together to play a full live set after almost six years. This is quite the turn around from the attitude displayed in an AMA Reddit thread two years ago where Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen sat down to chat with fans. It was revealed that Rob’s heart was not in the Pendulum project, that he didn’t want to make more drum and bass or fuse it with rock, and didn’t want to travel with a live band. He said it would sound different. Time will tell if Rob Swire and company will head into the studio. Whatever the outcome, there will be fans eagerly waiting.
So we just played a full Pendulum set for the first time in 5/6 years pic.twitter.com/9U7gd4BqP9
— Rob Swire (@rob_swire) June 10, 2017