“This is music of survival and perseverance. That’s always been our main driving force,” declares GOGOL BORDELLO front man Eugene Hutz about their new album SOLIDARITINE (release date: September 16, 2022 via Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl). “We just want to give the world a timeless album with messages of human potential and power.” Their eighth full-length album is inspired by survival in the face of adversity – a theme that can be applied to the pandemic just as much as it can be applied to the war going on in his native Ukraine. “Our music was always about perseverance,” exclaims Eugene. “Rock ‘n’ roll comes out of a real place. Take a group of people who have endured immigrant traumas and dislocation. They create music, get successful together, become more baroque and experimental, and experience some years of relative calm. All of a sudden, humankind encounters these problems like the pandemic and the war. This is when rock ‘n’ roll is the most necessary and where we perform the best.” Gogol Bordello’s eighth studio album, SOLIDARITINE, was produced by Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand) and will be released on September 16, 2022 via Casa Gogol / Cooking Vinyl.
