The Sheila Divine Share New Single "I Climbed Inside a Whale" — New LP, The Middle Ages Out May 22

Boston indie rock veterans The Sheila Divine have spent decades confounding expectations — releasing songs that deftly weave power-punching political criticism amongst mundane daily frustrations, that expose purest grief alongside deepest love.

Frontman Aaron Perrino has never been interested in the easy read, and The Middle Ages, the band's sixth album due May 22 on Trash Casual, doesn't offer one.

"I Climbed Inside a Whale" is the first taste, and it hits like a reminder of exactly why this band matters. Perrino's voice is front and center — that unmistakable belt, raw and unguarded, the kind that doesn't perform emotion so much as inhabit it. The song carries all the indie emo DNA that made The Sheila Divine essential in the first place, but it sounds like now: urgent, alive, and completely unbothered by nostalgia. This is a band that didn't come back to revisit anything. They came back because they had something to say.

The Middle Ages is a deeply human document of everyday life. Across ten new tracks, Perrino bares his soul and searches his heart in songs that navigate the wide gamut of lived experience: the wrenching loss of his mother, parental anxieties for his children's wellbeing, the strains of congested city life, fractured relationships, and rage at what his nation has turned into.

"I refuse to live in a world where people trade empathy for apathy, curiosity for cruelty, humility for hubris," Perrino says.

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