We Contain Multitudes Announce “Say Nothing” LP

American and British instrumental rock trio We Contain Multitudes are today announcing forthcoming album Say Nothing for release on 27th November through Expert Work Records / Vina Records. Also shared today is new single, and album title track ‘Say Nothing.’

We Contain Multitudes – comprised of Jon Fine (guitar, keyboards), Simon Kobayashi (bass), and Orestes Morfín (drums) – come from established stock. Jon and Orestes (named by Spin as one of the top 50 greatest drummers in alternative music) first played together in the late 1980s, when they were in the signal US post-hardcore trio Bitch Magnet. With that band, the two toured the US and Europe extensively, and recorded and released three albums before breaking up in late 1990. Bitch Magnet’s discography was reissued in 2011 by Temporary Residence, after which the band reunited for tours of the US, Asia, and Europe—including an appearance at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival.

Say Nothing continues We Contain Multitudes’ established musical themes of intricately layered and interlocking guitar riffs that ride atop very melodic basslines and an athletic rhythm section, albeit one more concerned with groove and driving the song forward than performing acrobatics for their own sake. At times, We Contain Multitudes’ new album delves deeply into outright heaviness (“A Camaro”), mantra-like repetition (the title track “Say Nothing” and “Good Question”), and extended structures (“The Science of Self-Control.”)

We Contain Multitudes’ Jon Fine comments on the project’s lead single:

“This is, basically, our first song. The first one we finished, and the one that sounded best when we first practiced together back in 2017. The weird thing is that we all still really like it.

There are the songs you love that have a giant hook that just completely seduces you. But some of our favourite songs are those that get into you more slowly through repetition and groove, and a momentum that slowly builds. That’s what we were going for here.

“Say Nothing” is the title of a spectacular book by Patrick Radden Keefe. It is also a good credo/statement of purpose for an instrumental band. (We see you, instrumental bands, and we salute you.) Which is why it’s also the name of our album. That, and also that choosing album titles is really hard.”

Pre-order new album Say Nothing HERE.

Jon Fine is also the author of the punk rock memoir Your Band Sucks, which was published by Penguin in 2015 and won critical acclaim in outlets ranging from The New York Times to the TheBoston Globe to The Atlantic to the Philippine Star. He first played music with Simon at a book event for Your Band Sucks in London in early 2017 at the Windmill in Brixton, an experience that was effectively the genesis of We Contain Multitudes.

Jon Fine comments further on the creation of the new album:

“We Contain Multitudes played together for the first time in the spring of 2017. The first afternoon wasn’t so great, but on day two it suddenly got much, much better. These first songs came together very quickly. Later that year, we recorded them in one day with our pal Jonathan Kreinik–very quickly, all of us and the amps and drums in the same room, probably all in one take. Nothing fancy about it at all. Although when Jon’s amp crapped out he rented a very nice Matchless head that he still thinks about sometimes.

Over the years We Contain Multitudes have played with these tracks—overdubs, mixing and then mixing again, etc. In 2025, we decided to finally do the thing, and to do it correctly. We re-recorded the drums. We re-recorded almost all of the guitars—and this was after the guitars had already been completely re-recorded, pretty much. (Simon’s bass parts, blessedly, were utterly on-point.) We also reworked some song structures. The thing is: we always really liked the songs. The issue was the performances and mixes and the sonic limitations of setting everything up in one room.

All of that is why the liner notes say that these four songs were recorded and mixed in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025, and 2026. There were four different studios, at least, and at least three of those studios no longer exist.”