For those of you who totally ignored or made fun of or whipped pennies at Massachusetts’ Speedy Ortiz back when they were mere freshmen on 2013’s Major Arcana: fuck you. Even though they’re still all snotty and punky and crude and DIY-as-balls and proudly use Bandcamp as their website; Speedy Ortiz are SOPHOMORES now. So back off, man.
The band has gotten a little sexier, a bit more political, and slightly more confident in its feminist views since you saw it last (I hear they all read The Awakening over the summer), and they’re proud to be releasing the fruits of their new and improved bodies and minds on their second full-length, entitled Foil Deer, on Carpark this coming April 21. Bandleader Sadie Dupuis wrote the bulk of it at her mother’s home in the Connecticut woods, “where the songwriter imposed a self-regulated exile and physical cleansing of sorts, finding that many of the songs came to her while running or swimming alone.” Okay, hmm; maybe they all read Walden.
“I gave up wasting mental energy on people who didn’t have my back,” Dupuis says. “Listening to our old records, I get the sense I was putting myself in horrible situations just to write sad songs. This music isn’t coming from a dark place, and without slipping into self-empowerment jargon, it feels stronger.”
Sweet. Doesn’t that make you want to hear it? Me too! But I guess giving all the tracks away early is way too Freshman-year, because there’s nothing to share with you from it right now except the tracklisting, which you’ll find down below. Oh, and there’s also some sort of original drawing by Michael Deforge on Pitchfork that details the album’s release in goofy, comic-strip form. (Hey, I said they were sophomores now, not seniors!)
Foil Deer tracklisting:
01. Good Neck
02. Raising the Skate
03. The Graduates
04. Dot X
05. Homonovus
06. Puffer
07. Swell Content
08. Zig
09. My Dead Girl
10. Ginger
11. Mister Difficult
12. Dvrk Wvrld
• Speedy Ortiz: https://speedyortiz.bandcamp.com
• Carpark: http://carparkrecords.com
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