The Armed share frantic single ‘Well Made Play’ to announce new album ‘The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed’

The Armed have announced a new album, ‘The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed’ and shared its frantic lead single ‘Well Made Play’.

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The record, the follow up to 2023’s ‘Perfect Saviors’, will be released on August 1 via Sargent House.

The title of its lead single references the 19th-century ‘well-made play,’ defined in a press release as “a dramatic form built on clean narratives wrapped up with moral clarity—worlds that bear little resemblance to our own.” Meanwhile, the song itself reflects “a grim reflection of a society that mistakes narcissism for self-awareness.”

“While we chase distractions and small comforts, we’re pushed into endless competition with each other—often while those with real power take freely, right in front of us,” explained vocalist Tony Wolski. In accordance with this, the video depicts two men beating each other while chained together, fighting over a jet ski.

Check it out below:

As for the album, Wolski described it as “music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine—endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed. It reflects the dissociation
required just to exist in that reality.”

The tracklist for ‘The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed’ is:

‘Well Made Play’
‘Purity Drag’
‘Kingbreaker’
‘Grace Obscure’
‘Broken Mirror ft. Prostitute’
‘Sharp Teeth’
‘I Steal What I Want’
‘Local Millionaire’
‘Gave up’
‘Heathen’
‘A More Perfect Design’

In addition, The Armed have announced a run of US shows for later in 2025 with support from Prostitute. Check out the full list of dates below.

AUGUST

14 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
15 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
16 – Washington DC – The Atlantis

SEPTEMBER
16 – Seattle, WA – SUBSTATION
17- Portland – Mississippi Studios
19 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
20th September – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy Theatre

DECEMBER
12 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
13 – Detroit, El Club

The Armed spoke to NME in 2023, in which Wolski elaborated on what the band tend to do with their music and why they eventually dropped their veil of mystery to reveal the members’ true identities.

“We’re here to challenge you and your ideas of what art is or what it is that you like, and maybe introduce you to some new stuff.” Wolski said. “I don’t know if [our music is] going to resonate every time with every person individually, but I think overall, the trend will be something that you go to because you want to be challenged.”

“Art changes, just like society, or standards of language,” he added. “We never really anticipated a moment in which having anonymity would actually make it more of a focus on the individual. Whilst I’m very happy with it, and I love all the content and concepts that have arised from it, it was never supposed to be a total mystery to be solved. It was just supposed to be an open ended thing that if you like The Armed that was it. As the collaboration has grown so huge, it seemed to make sense to now be like: we’re just gonna tell you what’s going on.” 

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