Arm’s Length sign to Pure Noise for new LP, share “Funny Face”

Ontario emo/post-hardcore band Arm’s Length have been touring their asses off and continuously rising since releasing their debut LP Never Before Seen, Never Again Found back in 2022, and now they’ve signed to Pure Noise for its followup, There’s A Whole World Out There. It arrives on May 16 via their new label home (pre-order), and first single “Funny Face” finds the band sounding as cathartic and soaring as ever, with gleaming production from past collaborator Anton DeLost. Check it out below.

“I had the songs for the last record since I was basically a teenager, but I had to write all of these ones fresh,” says singer Allen Steinberg. “So it speaks more to my life at the moment than the past, even though there’s still a good amount of past on it. But it’s how I’m dealing with it now, as opposed to being enveloped in it—there’s more a sense of being on the other side of it, of seeing it with hindsight. It’s still definitely a sad record, but I feel like the tone has shifted a little. I’m probably just a bit more mature, as my frontal lobe is developing as we speak.”

“The band’s been doing better than any of us could have imagined,” he adds, “and we have a following now. So I had to put myself in the headspace of ‘I’m not doing any of this for anyone else at all.’ I didn’t think about our fanbase at all when writing the songs. We’ve always been super honest lyrically, so we put that into overdrive on this record.”

About the new song, Allen adds, “‘Funny Face’ is about how discouragement from a trusted loved one can shape who you are as a person and your overall outlook on life. It’s one of our darkest, heaviest tracks. Lyrically, I wanted to illustrate the narrative of being entangled in a toxic codependent relationship, whether romantic or familial. It’s a straightforward, desperate sounding song, sonically and lyrically.”

Arm’s Length are currently in the midst of a tour with Silverstein and Thursday, and they’ve got a few dates left before wrapping things up in Montreal this weekend.

Tracklist
1. The World
2. Fatal Flaw
3. Funny Face
4. The Weight
5. Palinopsia
6. The Wound
7. You Ominously End
8. Early Onset
9. Genetic Lottery
10. Attic
11. Halley
12. Morning Person