On June 30, 2026 – Toronto based rockers, Selfish Things return with their new single, “Violence (feat. Mike Froh),” offering the latest preview of their highly anticipated album Receptivity, set for release on October 9, 2026, via FLG. The band has also shared the official music video for the track, which features Mike Froh of metalcore act The Holly Springs Disaster
“Violence” is a gripping, emotionally charged rock track that feels as much like an internal reckoning as it does a song. Written by Alex Biro in the final stretch before entering rehab, the track carries a weight that only deepens with time shifting from reflection into something closer to foreshadowing in hindsight. “Violence” leans into a raw, emotionally exposed rock framework that mirrors its subject matter. There’s a sense of urgency and unease in the delivery, as though the song itself is trying to sit with truths that can’t be easily resolved.
“‘Violence’ was one of the last songs I’d written before rehab. When we approached it years later, the song felt more like a foreshadowing than it did a meditation on what it means to confront yourself. The second verse houses the belief that you lose all ego and persona when you die and are given the impartial and eye-opening choice as to whether or not you proceed into the afterlife. That your decisions are played back to you without the benefit of ego or maladaptive self-perception.
“To have Mike Froh on it, a wonderful friend in recovery who changed all of our lives through his music in high school and then many more in his work as a leader in the recovery community, is one of the greatest moments of my life musically.” – Alex Biro
Pre-Order the band’s new album Receptivity here.
“This wasn’t supposed to be an album. It’s still not really an album to me, or to any of us. More just… closure, I guess. I was at the beginning of my full-blown addiction on the last tour we ever did before COVID stopped the world in 2020. I hated myself and I hated the world more than I really knew at the time. I’m four years sober on the 18th of May, working as a sober coach and clinician with folks who struggle with the same things I do, even in my recovery. The profits will be donated to the hospital where I went to rehab, and (admittedly), we don’t really know where to go (or if we’ll go anywhere with it) afterward.
“The only thing that’s brought me peace in the aftermath of the cataclysm of my addiction is being of service to others. I think deep down, releasing this for whoever needs to hear it is an extension of that. Everything beautiful blooms from the mud. Everything beautiful grows from the dirt. This is for those who can accept that the things they’ve been through can either be the poison cup they sip from or the counterweight that lifts themselves and others up. That being imperfect is being human. And that suffering is singular, and universal.” – Alex Biro
Receptivity Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Plant The Seed
3. Sunlight
4. Violence
5. Effigy
6. Cracks
7. Liability
8. Mugshot
9. Eye For An Eye
10. Outro
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