Self Defense Family return with tense new single Reclusion
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Self Defense Family have released their first new music in six years, a track titled 'Reclusion', marking the band's first release since a run of singles put out in 2020. The song finds vocalist Patrick Kindlon channelling personal tension into a raw, intense performance, giving long-time fans of the group a notable return after a lengthy period of silence.
Musically, the track is described as tense and unrelenting, likened to a stretched rubber band that never quite snaps. Kindlon has said he tried to write about family and the positive aspects of his life but found the songs still carried an undercurrent of unease; he noted the material was recorded last year but that he delayed its release while wrestling with wanting to get certain lyrics "right".
- Self Defense Family release 'Reclusion', their first new song in six years
- First release since a string of 2020 singles
- Kindlon says love songs still carry his usual unease
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Self Defense Family are a long-running underground rock outfit fronted by Patrick Kindlon, known for shifting between genres and putting out material at an unusually rapid pace for much of their career. That made their recent quiet spell notable: after a batch of singles in 2020, the band had gone six years without releasing anything new, leaving fans uncertain when, or whether, more music would follow.
Kindlon has built a reputation for lyrics that draw heavily on personal experience, often blurring the line between songwriting and diary-like reflection. He has said the new material began as an attempt to write about family life and its more positive sides, but that the songs kept pulling back toward tension and unease, and that he held the recordings back for a year while working to get the words right.
The return matters chiefly to followers of underground and independent rock, for whom Self Defense Family's inconsistency of output, paired with Kindlon's candid and often unsettled songwriting, has long been part of the band's appeal. A new release after such a long gap is being read by that audience as a signal of the band's ongoing direction and creative state.
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Originally published by Rock Sound as “Self Defense Family Share Cathartic New Track ‘Reclusion’”.