For Your Health Share New Track: "Flowers For The Worst Of Them"

For Your Health, who recently announced the June 6 release of their new album, This Bitter Garden, have released a second preview of the 13-track collection with today’s arrival of “Flowers For The Worst Of Them.” The song’s arrival comes in tandem with a visualizer directed by guitar player Nicholas Marzluf.

“’Flowers For The Worst Of Them’ deals in part with my personal relationship with my Catholic upbringing,” vocalist Hayden Rodriguez explains. “I’m examining what it means to me as an adult who has spent many years away from the church. In the past couple of years, I’ve been thinking about faith and how it relates to my life and the lives of others.”

Religion is one of the themes on This Bitter Garden, with Rodriguez adding: “In my head, This Bitter Garden has a dual nature. You can grow fruits and vegetables in a garden to feed people, or you can grow poisonous plants. One of the main thematic elements is, ‘What happens when a place where you grow nourishment turns rotten?’ There are other themes too. You continue to nurture resentment even when it’s so far past what you intended it to be. You end up on a path.”

Guitarist Rosa Delgado adds: “These songs are a true distillation of all the sonic ideas we’ve explored previously and our different interests. Hayden has a strong appreciation for film. We’re coupling his world-building and atmosphere with the immediacy, urgency, and brutality of our early material. We’re always striving to challenge ourselves. This Bitter Garden is an expansion of everything before.”

The band recently shared a video for “Davenport (A Rotten Pear)” directed by indie horror filmmaker Nick Holland (“Wronged,” “An Intrusion”).

Pre-orders for This Bitter Garden are available now via 3DOT Recordings, with the album offered on limited edition vinyl variants (white/cobalt with heavy splatter, and white/sea blue/black heavy splatter), cassette, and digitally.

This Bitter Garden follows the band’s acclaimed debut full-length, In Spite Of, which earned “Band To Watch” honors from Stereogum, praise from Pitchfork for their “screamo, post-hardcore, and genre-defying” sound, and was described by Brooklyn Vegan as “a vast array of sounds from under the umbrella of heavy music,” that “exists around the halfway point between early Daughters and the experimental late period of Fear Before the March of Flames.”

For Your Health recorded the album in 15 days, working with producer Eric Hudson at a studio “repurposed from an old church in the sticks of Illinois.”

Tour dates (with awakebutstillinbed):

June 19 Pittsburgh, PA Roboto Project

June 20 Baltimore, MD Undercroft

June 21 Philadelphia, PA Warehouse on Watts

June 22 Providence, RI The Parlour

June 23 Boston, MA Warehouse IX

June 24 Brooklyn, NY Trans Pecos

June 25 Rochester, NY The Psychic Garden

June 26 Lakewood, OH Mahall’s

June 27 Ferndale, MI Pug Fest @ Orchid Theatre

June 29 Grand Rapids, MI Zabhaz

July 1 Chicago, IL Subterranean