Release day! Our debut LP—The Optimist—is online everywhere today, and at Newbury Comics in Boston and Cambridge. Check it out on amazon.com for only $6.99.

The Boston Phoenix has just posted a long and awesome write-up on the album. Read it here

Recorded/mixed in under ten days with legendary producers Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie (Radiohead, Pixies, The Sounds, Dresden Dolls) The Optimist is the next stage of New Collisions—an intense depiction of our live sound, more closely aligned to early punk than new wave, more emphasis on guitar than synth, and lyrics about decline and fall. The lead single, “Dying Alone,” has already been featured by PopMatters, Magnet, FuseTV, CMJ, and more. Enjoy!

There have been a ton of reviews—we’ll post a long list of them tomorrow, when more have posted. So far so good!

Also,  listen to the entire album now on AOL/SPINNER’s “Listening Party!” For the next week, they will be featuring an entire album stream. Click the link above, scroll over, and listen away.

Thanks everyone! More updates soon!