{"id":2511665,"date":"2026-07-21T22:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2511665"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:36:32","slug":"self-defense-family-return-with-reclusion-their-first-new-music-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/self-defense-family-return-with-reclusion-their-first-new-music-in-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Defense Family Return with \u2018Reclusion\u2019, Their First New Music in Six Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post-hardcore collective Self Defense Family have returned with \u201cReclusion,\u201d their first new studio recording in six years. Released via Run For Cover Records, the track marks a thunderous comeback for the ever-evolving group led by frontman Patrick Kindlon (also of Drug Church).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfolding over two and a half minutes, \u201cReclusion\u201d pairs churning guitar chords and heavy, driving drums with Kindlon\u2019s distinctive, impassioned vocal delivery. Beyond a live album in 2023, the band has kept a low profile since their 2020 two-track release, making \u201cReclusion\u201d a long-awaited piece of crashing catharsis for fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflecting on the track and hinting at a larger body of work currently in development, Kindlon shares:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to write lyrics about family and animals instead of songs about being atomized and thinking everyone is crazy. But it turns out even my love songs are about being atomized and thinking everyone is crazy. Call it a creative through line, I guess\u2026 I\u2019ve got a family I love but everyone is dying on me. I\u2019d like to have lyrics that do it all justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Known for their revolving door of musical collaborators and a creative process that usually relies on immediate, off-the-cuff studio writing, Kindlon admits that this new batch of material has challenged his usual philosophy:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe recorded last year, but I\u2019ve been holding up the process. Typically I go into the studio and write while I record, and it\u2019s only ever about conveying a moment. But this time I\u2019m struggling with the idea of getting things \u2018perfect.\u2019 A silly idea. But some of these songs are about things I want to get right the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In tandem with the new single, Self Defense Family are making a rare return to the stage this summer. The group is set to play a select run of US shows across July and August alongside Fiddlehead and Ink &amp; Dagger.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Self Defense Family - &quot;Reclusion&quot; (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMqwtV4iXQQ?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><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<section class=\"affiliate_links\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/townsendmusic.store\/products\/artist\/self+defense+family?ac=681tex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\" class=\"affiliate\" data-wpel-link=\"exclude\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"\/> Official self defense family Vinyl &amp; Merch*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gigantic.com\/self-defense-family-tickets?affiliate=indieisnotagenre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\" class=\"affiliate\" data-wpel-link=\"exclude\"><i class=\"fas fa-ticket-alt\"\/> self defense family Tickets*<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"post-tag\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indieisnotagenre.com\/artist\/self-defense-family\/\" rel=\"tag\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">self defense family<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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.indieisnotagenre.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-hardcore collective Self Defense Family have returned with \u201cReclusion,\u201d their first new studio recording in six years. Released via Run For Cover Records, the track marks a thunderous comeback for the ever-evolving group led by frontman Patrick Kindlon (also of Drug Church). Unfolding over two and a half minutes, \u201cReclusion\u201d pairs churning guitar chords and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[495501],"class_list":["post-2511665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-self-defense-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Self-Defense-Family-Return-with-\u2018Reclusion-Their-First-New-Music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511667,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511665\/revisions\/2511667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}