Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has received five Platinum certifications, garnered over 4.7 million monthly listens on Spotify alone, and has topped charts with their post-hardcore/alternative rock hits. However, to many, they are more than just a band, and rather a voice of comfort, empowerment, and activism through music.
Perfection
On October 3, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus released their sixth studio album, X’s For Eyes, along with their latest single, “Perfection”.
“Perfection” driving guitars and, in true Red Jumpsuit Apparatus fashion, a big, powerful melody. It comes paired with a visualizer, which pictures a drawing of a white flower with one red leaf.
Founding member, lead vocalist, and guitarist, Ronnie Winter, states that it is “a song about perfect imperfections, about embracing one’s flaws and the true beauty that lies within. It’s a song about individuality, self-acceptance, and the idea that our scars and imperfections make us who we are. Through the lens of perfectly imperfect, what some might consider to be mistakes, flaws, and shortcomings suddenly become good, beautiful, even desirable. It’s a reminder,” he adds, “that being perfectly imperfect is something not to hide but to celebrate.”
Stream “Perfection” here: Perfection
X’s for Eyes
The album is the first the band has released with Better Noise Music, and follows the release of singles “Home Improvement”, “Slipping Through (No Kings)”, and “X’s for Eyes”. Cameos from Sleeping With Sirens’ Kellin Quinn on “Always The King” and Escape The Fate’s Craig Mabbitt on “Worth It” help to complete the 11-track album.
“I think that anybody who’s been with us the whole time realizes that we’ve been an activist band since 2006,” Winter says. “So when I see X’s for eyes, it reminds me of the childhood cartoons, the video games—all those things where this is what happens when you don’t do the right thing. You see that character that you know and love, but for three seconds with a bunch of swirling birds over their head and they’ve got X’s for eyes because they made a mistake. They trusted the wrong person, they went in the wrong direction, they chose the wrong path and then POW! Something crazy happens and there’s X’s for eyes, or ‘RIP.’ And I just find that has a parallel reality to now.”
“In 2006, we put a song out called ‘Face Down,’ which was an anti-domestic violence song, which we then toured the country doing everything we could to raise awareness against domestic violence. So that was with song one. And then in 2025, we’re just still continuing that narrative of social justice: doing the right thing, treating women properly, as well as men. Just the mistreatment of others. We’ve broadened that. We’ve broadened that scope. Racism, homophobia—we try to touch on everything that we wanted to make sure our fans who are coming to our show know that we stand behind. And I think we did that. I really do.”
The album can be found here: link.
X’s For Eyes Tracklist
1. Always The King (feat. Kellin Quinn)
2. Purple Halo
3. Perfection
4. X’s For Eyes
5. Bad Beat
6. Slipping Through (No Kings)
7. Home Improvement
8. Twenty Hour Drive
9. Kins and Carroll
10. Getting By
11. Worth It (feat. Craig Mabbitt)
