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 through 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. Try the brand new video and tour dates beneath.
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-about an emo basic, and 2011’s Parrot Flies. The brand new LP additionally capabilities as a return to type within the form of their lineup, because it options unique 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, understanding that persons are listening and likewise seeing all these tremendous younger youngsters on the reunion tour, we’re talking to a different technology right here,” he stated. “There’s clearly just a few songs that had been concerning the present world we stay in—America, the empire. I didn’t need to premeditate it, that is what’s happening in my thoughts and doubtless all people’s thoughts today. It’s simply overwhelming, which is the place the title of the document 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 speeding in on a regular basis.”
Algernon Cadwallader will deliver their headlining tour to North America within the autumn. Starting on November 6, the band will carry out throughout the USA 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 submit, Algernon Cadwallader wrote that the band was “laid to relaxation” and centered on different initiatives transferring ahead, together with Hop Along for Reinhart. In 2018, Lauren Data 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 equivalent to Best Friends Forever and opened Joyce Manor’s By no means Hungover Once more anniversary tour.
