Quicksand Announce New Album Bring On The Psychics, Share Two New Songs

Quicksand are back with a new full-length. The New York post-hardcore band have announced Bring On The Psychics, their first album in five years and their debut for Equal Vision Records. It is due July 17, and two new songs, Get To It and Regenerate, are streaming now.

The announcement lands in the sweet spot between legacy-band comfort and actual forward motion. Quicksand could coast forever on the muscle memory of Slip and Manic Compression if they wanted to; instead, the details around Bring On The Psychics suggest a band still interested in pressure, texture, and reinvention rather than a museum-quality replica of its own Nineties silhouette.

Jon Markson, whose credits include Drug Church and Drain, produced and mixed the record over 10 days. The current Quicksand lineup listed by Equal Vision is Walter Schreifels on guitar and vocals, Sergio Vega on bass and vocals, and Alan Cage on drums. IDIOTEQ reports that Jesse Korman directed and edited the video for Get To It.

Schreifels frames the record as a return to the urgency that sat underneath some of his earliest hardcore influences. Speaking about the album, he said, “I was going back to a lot of my earlier influences about ‘break down the walls’ or ‘start today.’” He added, “Regardless of whether you’re into hardcore or youth crew, they’re really cool records because they’re speaking to the time and providing possible paths to a better future … with mosh parts. That’s the energy that I wanted to bring to this.”

The two songs point in slightly different directions. Schreifels describes Get To It as a song about procrastination and “poking holes in the excuses for standing still,” while Regenerate is “about finding new paths forward.” That is a very Quicksand pairing: one song for the stuck point, one for the crawl out of it.

IDIOTEQ’s preview also flags a few deeper album turns: Crystallize pulls toward shoegaze, Cool Guy rides on Vega’s bass, the title track leans into Cage’s dynamics, and Days You Run To moves into more expansive ballad territory. That range matters. Quicksand’s best work has always made heaviness feel aerodynamic, less like brute force than a body learning how to move through impact.

The band also have a June European run on deck, including festival stops at Rock for People, Nova Rock, Graspop Metal Meeting, and Jera On Air, plus headline dates in Germany. Pre-orders and pre-saves for Bring On The Psychics are available through Equal Vision.