{"id":1946926,"date":"2025-08-07T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1946926"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:02:40","slug":"of-monsters-and-men-announce-new-album-all-is-love-and-pain-in-the-mouse-parade-with-yearnful-single-ordinary-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/of-monsters-and-men-announce-new-album-all-is-love-and-pain-in-the-mouse-parade-with-yearnful-single-ordinary-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Monsters And Men announce new album &#8216;All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade&#8217; with yearnful single &#8216;Ordinary Creature&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/of-monsters-and-men\">Of Monsters And Men<\/a> have announced their new album \u2018All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade\u2019 and previewed it with a new single, \u2018Ordinary Creature\u2019. Listen below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/of-monsters-and-men-new-album-fever-dream-interview-2019-listen-2483952\">Of Monsters And Men tell us about their \u201cplayful and empowering\u201d new album \u2018Fever Dream\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Icelandic band shared today (August 7) that their first full-length album in six years will arrive on October 17. You can pre-order it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/omam.lnk.to\/AllIsLoveAndPainInTheMouseParade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the follow-up to 2019\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/of-monsters-and-men-fever-dream-review-2532769\">\u2018Fever Dream\u2019<\/a> is deeply introspective, charting the human spectrum of joy and sorrow, love and pain.<\/p>\n<p>Having drawn inspiration from the band\u2019s personal lives and the wider community that surrounds them, singer and lyricist Nanna Hilmarsd\u00f3ttir described their collective history as an integral part of the record, functioning as a shared narrative that shaped the album\u2019s emotional landscape.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3883485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3883485\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3883485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Album artwork for Of Monsters &amp; Men\u2019s \u2018All Is Love and Pain In The Mouse Parade\u2019. CREDIT: PRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The indie-folk band have also marked their return with the new self-produced single \u2018Ordinary Creature\u2019, written and recorded in their Iceland studio. Speaking about the new track, the group said it was about accepting life\u2019s often bittersweet nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary Creature is about the feeling of yearning for that someone that brings you comfort,\u201d they said of the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about when you start feeling better after a period of not feeling so great. That moment when you start coming back to yourself again and remembering what it\u2019s like to be an ordinary creature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newly shared visuals directed by Erlendur Sveinsson capture the band during a summer night and early morning in Iceland, with the music video following them through the quiet streets of tiny coastal town Selvogur.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Of Monsters and Men - Ordinary Creature (Official)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QU6Uq5ZLuNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Back in 2019, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/of-monsters-and-men-new-album-fever-dream-interview-2019-listen-2483952\">Hilmarsd\u00f3ttir told <em>NME<\/em> that \u2018Fever Dream\u2019 dealt more with her female perspective<\/a>, and that on the whole the work acted as a \u201clearning curve\u201d as to what space the band could occupy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re two lyricists, me and Raggi [Ragnar \u00de\u00f3rhallsson], writing from two very different experiences. This time, it felt important that we tell our own stories more,\u201d she said. \u201cFor me, because I was writing more on my own, they have more of a feminine aspect. It\u2019s dealing with what it\u2019s like to be a woman. I allowed myself to go there a lot more this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/of-monsters-and-men-fever-dream-review-2532769\">three-star review<\/a> of the record, Hannah Mylrea wrote for <em>NME<\/em>: \u201cTheir clear talent is masked by trendy production and unimaginative writing. That\u2019s not to say the album is bad, just disappointing as it feels like they have so much more to give. \u2018Fever Dream\u2019 is perfectly listenable, but missing the magic spark that made them smash successes when they first emerged.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Monsters And Men have announced their new album \u2018All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade\u2019 and previewed it with a new single, \u2018Ordinary Creature\u2019. 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