The Sheila Divine

Aaron Perrino refuses to be beat. The Boston music scene veteran, whose musical endeavors go by The Sheila Divine, has spent decades confounding expectations. From breaking out with the college radio hit “Hum” on the esteemed Roadrunner Records, to achieving cult status in the unlikely Belgian indie rock market, to steadfastly putting out a towering catalog of instantly gripping and uncompromisingly honest songs.

Songs that deftly weave power-punching political criticism amongst mundane daily frustrations, and that expose purest grief alongside deepest love.

In this vein, The Sheila Divine’s upcoming sixth album, The Middle Ages (Trash Casual), is a deeply human document of everyday life, brought to reality at the hand of a songwriter who has spent his adult years transparently trying to make sense of the world. Across ten new tracks Perrino bares his soul and searches his heart in songs that navigate the wide gamut of lived experience: from the wrenching loss of his mother, through parental anxieties for his own children’s wellbeing, to the strains of congested city life, fractured relationships, and rage at what his nation has turned into.

While no stranger to confounding times, (the group’s career traverses the whiplashing political landscapes of Clinton, GW Bush, Obama, and Trump) the sounds on The Middle Ages are perhaps Perrino’s most dangerous and most urgent yet.