The record opens somewhere low. Alienation, disappointment, the kind of self-loathing that follows you around and keeps talking after you have gone to bed. By the last two songs it has moved somewhere else entirely, closer to a stance than a mood, a resilient watch-me-get-through-this that Bjorn Dossche builds toward across the whole of “Here’s That Feeling.”
“Exit Strategy” is where that pull is clearest. Wrong Man shared the song first, with Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré on guest vocals, and the title sits right on top of the lyrics.
“‘Exit Strategy’ ties in with the song’s lyrics, which deal with trying to escape the weight of past mistakes, and trying to work my way around self-loathing,” Bjorn said.
It is about wanting out, though not in a clean or dramatic way. Being stuck with your own head, running from the same ghosts again and again, losing sleep, losing grip.
That is the front half of the album. The back half turns. “‘Here’s That Feeling‘ as an album starts off with songs that deal with alienation, disappointment and self-loathing, and ends with two songs (Ripped Open I & II) that have a more resilient, watch-me-get-through-this tone,” Bjorn said. Nine tracks, and the arc runs the length of them.
Wrong Man recorded the album in the spring and summer of 2025, and the label conversation resolved itself while the songs were still fresh. Tre at Deathwish got in touch after hearing it.
“It wasn’t totally clear to me at first how far their interest went, but once we really talked things came together very organically,” Bjorn said. Given the band’s history with the label through Rise And Fall and Oathbreaker, the fit was obvious to them. “To us it felt like the ideal partnership. In a way, it felt like coming home.”
It was tracked in Kortrijk with Michael Neyt, who has worked with Oathbreaker, Predatory Void and Feverchild, and mixed by the almighty Kurt Ballou at God City, the same room that has handled Converge, Torche and High On Fire.
Bolm’s guest spot on “Exit Strategy” aside, this is the band’s first record for Deathwish Inc., out September 11.
Wrong Man came up two EPs before this, and Bjorn frames the full-length as the next honest step rather than a reinvention.
“I guess ‘Here’s That Feeling’ is the logical follow-up to the two EPs we’ve done. It leans into our strengths, explores new territory as well, and offers a very truthful and honest look at who we are as humans and musicians,” he said. Growth, in other words, not a hard pivot.
The range across the album is wide, and Bjorn is happy to walk through a few of the songs he keeps coming back to. “It Won’t Wash Off” was one of the last written.
He likes its eerie streak, something that puts him in mind of The Cult or Killing Joke. “Petty Thief” is a slower one, with a 70s Neil Young feel, and it took the band a while to piece together.
“When we found the chorus we were like ‘wow, this is it,'” Bjorn said. “Mystic Eye” goes the other way, a rocking punk vibe he calls Detroit-inspired, “a bit of a stomper actually.”
Underneath the spread sits a familiar lineage: Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, Quicksand, Sonic Youth, The Wipers, the wiry end of 90s noise-rock crossed with 70s proto-punk.
Soulful post-hardcore that stays noisy and melodic at once, bluesy and moody when it wants to be.
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The artwork came from Bjorn’s friend Benjamin (@wereldpijn), who handed over a batch of paintings and drawings to pick from. “It wasn’t easy to choose, but together with our go-to layout wizard Jason (@jasonmazzola) we landed on something that looks dope, and fits the album perfectly,” Bjorn said.
Belgium being small, Wrong Man play a wide mix of shows and keep close to plenty of the bands around them.
In the post-hardcore corner Bjorn points to Vaag and Feverchild, both of which he rates highly. Shift toward the indie and shoegaze side and it is Newmoon and Blossom.
“Here’s That Feeling” is out September 11 on Deathwish Inc. (European pre-orders here, UK here).
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