Alternative rockers Selfish Things are thrilled to announce the release of “Violence (feat. Mike Froh),” the latest song off their highly anticipated new album, Receptivity, out October 9, 2026 on FLG. Check out the all-new song video, featuring Mike Froh of metalcore band The Holly Springs Disaster.

Alex Biro stated: “‘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”, he continued.

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“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,” shares Biro. “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”, he added. “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.”

Selfish Things’ Receptivity is a stark, unvarnished depiction of frontman Alex Biro’s confrontation with collapse and recovery. Receptivity comes from the ashes of a life ruined — years of frantic touring, addiction, the stillness of a pandemic that prompted introspection – it is a lifeline, and a rebirth. The record, written alongside long-time colleagues Michael Ticar and Mike Tompa and mixed by Sam Guaiana (Bayside, Neck Deep, Against The Current), came together during Biro’s initial days of recovery. It’s not a return, it’s a statement. Brutally honest and emotionally charged, Receptivity is a book of redemption, a monument to survival, accountability, and the strength to rebuild when it all breaks apart.

Selfish Things started out as a name for Biro, and their debut EP, “Vertical Love” (A Wolf at Your Door Records), was produced by James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Underoath, Dashboard Confessional). The release caught the attention of Dan P. Carter over at BBC Radio 1, landing the band a cover position on Spotify’s New Noise playlist in 2017.

Their debut LP, Logos (Pure Noise Records), was produced by Drew Fulk (Knocked Loose, Beartooth, Lil Peep) and charted on various Billboard charts in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic cut the record cycle short and put the band on hiatus.

Since then, Biro and bandmate Michael Ticar have worked with Juno Award–winning producer Mike Tompa, composing music that comes from the tail end of addiction and carried into sobriety.

Now four years sober and working in peer support in the touring community, Biro says the band’s reappearance seems less like a comeback and more like a reckoning – an opportunity to speak clearly about addiction, mental health, and the danger of freezing people at their darkest times.

Being receptive is a win in the human experience. It is the narrative of a man who knows the depths of his own shadow and does not fear the thunder of his past. In a world concerned with divisiveness and virtue signalling, the three friends have put together something inexorably linked to opposing the status quo. An album aimed to tell the tale of a man who is willing to stand in front of the world and admit his brokenness and how it has affected him without blame. A man fed up with division and anger. A man who is changed for the better.

Selfish Things is:

Alex Biro

Michael Ticar

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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