The Word Alive are Getting Real, Fo realz

by | Mar 18, 2014

We asked Tyler “Telle” Smith about his first band Experimental Unison when we interrogated him in 2012. My oh my, has he come a long way since his early days in Ohio with EU. You know The Word Alive are coming out with a new album this spring?

That’s right, TWA will be putting out their third studio record, a follow up to Life Cycles. The new one is titled Real and it comes out on June 10th through Fearless.

Here’s the debut single from it — it’s called “Play The Victim.”

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