Algernon Cadwallader have introduced their first new album in 14 years. The influential emo band will launch Trying Not to Have a Thought on September 12 by way of Saddle Creek. Algernon Cadwallader have additionally shared the brand new single “Hawk,” with a music video that was directed by Darby Irrgang and Ricky Christian. Plus, they’ve introduced a headlining tour. Take a look at the brand new video and tour dates under.
Making an attempt To not Have a Thought is Algernon Cadwallader’s third album and their first since reuniting in 2022. It follows their 2008 debut, Some Kind of Cadwallader, lengthy thought of an emo traditional, and 2011’s Parrot Flies. The brand new LP additionally features as a return to kind within the form of their lineup, because it options authentic members singer-bassist Peter Helmis, guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony, and drummer Nick Tazza. The album was largely recorded and self-produced at Reinhart’s personal Headroom Studios in Philadelphia.
In a new interview with Ian Cohen for Pitchfork, Helmis elaborated on the album’s title and lyrical themes: “Us being a band once more and having an viewers, realizing that persons are listening and likewise seeing all these tremendous younger children on the reunion tour, we’re talking to a different technology right here,” he mentioned. “There’s clearly just a few songs that have been concerning the present world we stay in—America, the empire. I didn’t need to premeditate it, that is what’s occurring in my thoughts and doubtless everyone’s thoughts today. It’s simply overwhelming, which is the place the title of the report comes from; ‘Making an attempt to not have a thought’ is a euphemism for, like, meditation and making an attempt to free the thoughts. However that is all of the stuff that’s dashing in on a regular basis.”
Algernon Cadwallader will convey their headlining tour to North America within the autumn. Starting on November 6, the band will carry out throughout the US and Canada, stopping in cities like Seattle, Chicago, Montreal, Philadelphia, New York, Denver, and Atlanta. The tour is about to conclude on December 15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In a 2012 weblog publish, Algernon Cadwallader wrote that the band was “laid to relaxation” and targeted on different tasks shifting ahead, together with Hop Along for Reinhart. In 2018, Lauren Information reissued the group’s two albums on vinyl. After reuniting in 2022, Algernon Cadwallader went on a reunion tour. Since then, the band has performed at music festivals reminiscent of Best Friends Forever and opened Joyce Manor’s By no means Hungover Once more anniversary tour.
