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Newcastle Alt-Rockers The Pale White Drop Third Album ‘Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century’ and New Single “Absolute Cinema”

Apr 12, 2026

The Pale White are moving as fast as the world they’re writing about. Newcastle alt-rockers Adam and Jack Hope release their third studio album ‘Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century’ via End of the Wall Recordings, alongside new single “Absolute Cinema,” a love letter to cinema culture and the slow erasure of communal experiences that once defined it. It’s their most expansive record yet, blending the anthemic punch of classic rock with the urgency and edge of modern alternative, arriving as a deliberate counterweight to their softer sophomore album ‘The Big Sad.’ Listen here.

“Absolute Cinema” opens the album’s argument with a specific memory. Adam Hope recalls going to the pictures as a kid in the mid-2000s with a tenner, enough for a film ticket, fast food, and bus fare home. “The cinema has become just another inanimate object crying for help as we navigate through this century,” he says. The song nods to Martin Scorsese as the automatic barometer for genuine cinematic ambition, sharp, anthemic, and landing with real conviction.

The album’s title frames the broader thesis. Technology is accelerating while humanity feels increasingly frozen in place, the Hope brothers argue, turning people into mannequins in their own lives. “We humans have now in fact become the inanimate objects,” Adam says. Written and recorded entirely back home in the northeast, ‘Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century’ embraces the total creative freedom the duo discovered making ‘The Big Sad,’ no outside producers, just the two of them pushing their sound as far as it’ll go.

The UK headline tour continues this week with shows in London, Bristol, Manchester, and Newcastle, wrapping with a Bearded Theory Festival appearance in May.

‘Inanimate Objects of the 21st Century’ Tracklist: