New Forms

New Forms is a manifestation of both passion and dedication to craft, converging in an expression of longing and belonging. With a wall-of-sound approach that eschews repetition, New Forms has continued to hone their sound since their inception in 2018.

Bassist Travis Fitzgerald, guitarist Justin Valliere, and drummer Chris Musser expanded after their first release I Don’t Want to Live My Life Again to include vocalist Mary White-Valliere and guitarist Jake Letizia. Their collective first LP As Dust Collects brought them on tours with Crowning, Beau Navire, and Jerome’s Dream, while seeing them placed on several DIY festivals around the country.

New Forms is known for the intensity of their live shows, hitting with a pummeling force that offers little reprieve. While the moments are brief, they are able to create mournfully melodic passages, allowing their intensity to return like an earthquake’s impact in mono-pitched vocals, blended perfectly with the instrumentation. New Forms has a gritty sound with deeply emotional lyrics that are lamentations on memory, trauma, and loss, often tied to themes of nature.

     “I have found my voice in this band and it’s allowed me to offer up words to others that I wish someone had spoken to me earlier in life,” White-Valliere plainly explains. “I never want to stop connecting with others and pouring love into the type of community that builds us all up.”

     New Forms EP Nothing’s Sacred Anymore is their first release with Boston-based Iodine Recordings. Engineered and mixed at God City by Zach Weeks (Deafheaven, The Armed, Cerce) and mastered by Nick Townsend (Fleshwater, Full of Hell, Nails), Nothing’s Sacred Anymore was recorded to tape, giving it an unmistakable rawness that only reel-to-reel media can provide.

New Forms’s immersion in the DIY scene is at their core and is continued through their work. White-Valliere states, “New Forms is us finding and trying to nourish a community we sincerely want to thrive. It’s about putting out into the world the things we wish someone shared with us at times in our lives when things felt overwhelmingly lonely. We pour our energy, emotions and ourselves into making New Forms something sincere to us.”

-Pierce Jordan