There's A Whole World Out There
Arm's Length
May 16, 2025News updates for 'There's A Whole World Out There' by Arm's Length
Emo powerhouse Arms's Length sign to Pure Noise, announce sophomore LP, and drop latest single
Arm’s Length, the anthemic emo-punk powerhouse from Ontario, Canada, has just signed with Pure Noise Records. With this, the band has also announced the release of their sophomore album 'There's A Whole World Out There' on May 16, 2025, featuring their latest single, an absolute ripper titled "Funny Face" which can be streamed below. This song showcases the more aggressive side of Arm's Length, while still maintaining their big melodies and anthemic hooks. Drawing on personal struggles, the new album delves into themes of personal trauma, love, and resilience, showcasing the band's evolution and raw emotion. Arm's Length pull from the best parts of early 2000s emo, pop-punk, and post-hardcore, with passionate vocal delivery, the occasional screams, loud melodic guitars, and big anthemic singalong hooks, that fans of Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, Taking Back Sunday, Hot Mulligan and Armor For Sleep will love. For a full press release on the new LP, please read below.
The Ontario, Canada based emo-punk band, Arm’s Length, have signed to Pure Noise Records. With this, they announce details surrounding their sophomore album, ‘There’s A Whole World Out There’ out May 16, 2025, and release the first single “Funny Face”. The song can be streamed below. About the single,“‘Funny Face’ is about how discouragement from a trusted loved one can shape who you are as a person and your overall outlook on life,” says lyricist/vocalist and guitarist Allen Steinberg. “It’s one of our darkest, heaviest tracks. Lyrically, I wanted to illustrate the narrative of being entangled in a toxic codependent relationship, whether romantic or familial. It’s a straightforward, desperate sounding song, sonically and lyrically.”
Building on the emotional rawness and introspection of their debut, ‘Never Before Seen, Never Again Found’, the new album finds the band pushing their boundaries, offering a deeper exploration of personal trauma, love, loss, and the resilience that emerges from navigating life’s darkest moments. Their debut album marked them as an indie band to watch, conjuring praise from writers at SPIN, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Exclaim!, and Loudwire among others.
Produced once again by Anton DeLost, who worked with the band on their previous releases, There’s A Whole World Out There marks a significant evolution for Arm’s Length. While Steinberg wrote the bulk of the material solo, the full band—guitarist Jeremy White, bassist Ben Greenblatt, and drummer Jeff White—helped bring these songs to life in the studio, with additional contributions from Bonnie Brooksbank (strings) and Alex Scalzo-Brown (piano).
Steinberg’s personal struggles, which he openly addressed in his songwriting, are central to the album’s creation. He confesses that during the period leading up to the writing of this record, he was “the most mentally ill” he had ever been. Yet, it was precisely through confronting these intense experiences that the album came to life with such urgency and honesty. “The songs aren’t written for anyone else at all,” he says, emphasizing the raw, unfiltered emotion that drives the record’s sound and lyrics.
RIYL: Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, Armor For Sleep, Taking Back Sunday, Hot Mulligan
