ELVIS DEPRESSEDLY, the much beloved bedroom pop recording project of Mat Cothran and Delaney Mills have sharing the full New Alhambra album stream ahead of the record’s release next week. Due out on May 12th via Run For Cover Records, which is now available for pre-order, the band are sharing the stream with The AV Club magazine and below. Speaking about the album, AV Club said it “…builds on the band’s lo-fi aesthetic which, at its most conventional, recalls Elliott Smith and his despondent pop songs”. The band will be bringing their highly anticipated record out on the road throughout the US this summer with Mitski and Eskimeaux.
Vice recently premiered the band’s captivating “Thou Shall Not Murder” video, sharing their sentiments, “People hurt other people, and shame and regret can really fuck with your head. That’s the territory Elvis Depressedly explores in their new video”. Directed by Micah Van Hove, the video is a breath-taking accompaniment to the band’s single, a contemplative journey through youth, innocence, despair, and death, with a wistful and wondrous beauty.
Van Hove expanded on his video, sharing:
“Mat’s music has always made me think about death, but always through the lens of love. You’d be hard pressed to make it through a conversation with Mat or one of his albums without hearing a jubilant death wish, but I’ve always understood it as an expression of an overbearing feeling of love; a heart so heavy with love for this world and its people that the idea of death is merely a joke — a joke we tell our friends and lovers to keep them close, to remind them that the present is the most important gift we have.
For me, the words and melodies on New Alhambra are bathing in a sense of reclaimed innocence that compelled me to explore how a child internalizes the notion of death for the first time.”
06/17 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose
06/18 – Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s 20 Lanes
06/19 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
06/20 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
06/21 – St. Louis, MO @ The Demo
06/23 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre
06/24 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Shred Shed
06/25 – Boise, ID @ The Shredder
06/27 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon Lounge
06/28 – Portland, OR @ Analog
06/30 – San Fransisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
07/01 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
07/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
07/03 – San Diego, CA @ Legend Records
07/05 – Phoenix, AZ @ THE REBEL LOUNG
07/07 – Houston, TX @ Walters
07/08 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk Indoors
07/09 – Dallas, TX @ Sons of Herman
07/10 – Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone
07/11 – Nashville, TN @ The End
07/12 – Atlanta @ Purgatory
07/14 – Washington DC@ DC9
07/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Philamoca
07/16 – Boston, MA @ Cuisine En Local
07/17 – New York, NY @ Palisades
07/18 – Hamden, CT @ The Space
