{"id":50,"date":"2020-09-19T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:27:01","slug":"icon-for-hire-launch-kickstarter-for-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/icon-for-hire-launch-kickstarter-for-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Icon for Hire launch Kickstarter for new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alt-rock duo Icon for Hire have just taken to Instagram to announce something fans have been eagerly waiting for: a brand-new album is on the way. The band revealed that their next record, titled <em>Amorphous<\/em>, will be funded through a Kickstarter campaign that officially launched today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign\u2019s initial goal is set at $2,942 USD\u2014a modest target considering the band\u2019s fiercely loyal fanbase and their history of independent success. Icon for Hire, known for their genre-blending sound that fuses rock, electronic, and pop influences, have built a reputation for forging their own path in the music industry after parting ways with a major label in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Instagram, the band shared their excitement about giving fans a chance to be directly involved in the album\u2019s creation, promising exclusive rewards and behind-the-scenes updates throughout the process. <em>Amorphous<\/em> will be the follow-up to 2016\u2019s <em>You Can\u2019t Kill Us<\/em>, which was also successfully crowdfunded and praised for its raw, energetic sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/youcantkillus\/icon-for-hire-amorphous\" title=\"\">Fans can check out the Kickstarter now<\/a> to help bring <em>Amorphous<\/em> to life\u2014and if history is any indication, it won\u2019t be long before that initial goal is shattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alt-rock duo Icon for Hire have just taken to Instagram to announce something fans have been eagerly waiting for: a brand-new album is on the way. The band revealed that their next record, titled Amorphous, will be funded through a Kickstarter campaign that officially launched today. The campaign\u2019s initial goal is set at $2,942 USD\u2014a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,13],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-icon-for-hire","tag-independent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanberg.eu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}