Piebald - Tales For The Rages | Smartpunk Exclusive

After nearly two decades, Piebald return with Tales For The Rages, Featuring 13 tracks of emo x indie-rock greatness, written and recorded between 2019–2025 after the band's 2016 reunion sparked a steady flood of riffs, melodies, and lyrics that refused to fade. 

It picks up where they left off while confidently pushing forward — not a nostalgia play, but a natural next chapter. Tracked at The Den in North Reading, MA with longtime collaborator Doug Batchelder, the album was produced in part by Jay Maas (Title Fight, Citizen) and mastered by Jack Shirley (Joyce Manor)

The album captures the band’s signature mix of melody, humor, and emotional candor, anchored by massive hooks and harmonies, with an undercurrent of social awareness reflecting on inequality, human behavior, and the strange modern world.

Released via Iodine Recordings, Tales for the Rages marks a new chapter built from the same spirit that defined Piebald’s earlier work, carried forward with renewed urgency and clarity.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Still On the Couch

2. This Thing is Old

3. Used to Good Advantage

4. Gentlemen Callers

5. Conundrum Speculator

6. More Month Than Money

7. Fun Destroyer

8. Power Smile

9. No One Seems To Mind

10. Dance Till We Fall Apart

11. Cooler Heads Prevail

12. Strangest Dream

13. River Below