Washington, D.C.-based rock band Argo and The Violet Queens premiered a new track, "Live in This Life," with Under the Radar ahead of their debut album, "In Pieces," due August 15. The band builds intricate throwbacks to 1970s funk, jazz and psych rock, and has spent recent months rolling out singles from the record, including the double single "Question of When / Right Time," along with "Casablanca" and "What's So Wrong."
"Live in This Life" is a disco-tinged funk odyssey built on thick bass grooves and dueling funk guitar lines, moving through dance breaks and psychedelic detours before drifting into free-floating synths and a dreamy jazz-funk finish. Its lyrics meditate on connection amid the pressures of modern life: "'Cause anytime I live in this life, I know I can hardly survive on my own."
The band said the song grew out of a collaboration with their friends in ViRG, whom they toured with while promoting the album. Touring alongside ViRG shifted the band's own outlook, moving them away from a more nihilistic view of climate change and late-stage capitalism and toward something more hopeful. As the band put it, "the feelings of connection and hope are something I wish to hold on to."
Argo and The Violet Queens previously released a handful of singles and a 2024 EP, "Kings of Industry," before arriving at "In Pieces."
The album lands in the release calendar among the rest of August's new rock releases from Argo and The Violet Queens.
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- New track "Live in This Life" premiered August 12, 2026 via Under the Radar
- Debut album "In Pieces" due August 15, 2026
- Song is a collaboration with tourmates ViRG
- Follows the 2024 EP "Kings of Industry"
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