Australian cult-status post-punk sextet EXEK — singer Albert Wolski, guitarist Jai Morris-Smith, synthesist Andrew Brocchi, trumpeter and backing vocalist Valya YL Hooi, bassist Ben Hepworth, and Chris Stephenson on the drums — announce their forthcoming sixth full-length LP, The Map and the Territory, out October 6 via Foreign Records. To celebrate the announcement, the band also shares the record’s first single, “Welcome to my Alibi,” available now on all platforms. Self-recorded throughout 2021 to 2022, frontman Albert Wolski describes The Map and the Territory as “perhaps less ambitious than some previous EXEK releases. In a positive way, obviously.” Comprised of eight tracks, there is a greater focus on song craftsmanship, where elongated jams play second fiddle to choruses and hooks....