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Photo – She Is Aphrodite

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Praise for I LOVE YOU

#6 ARIA Chart debut

#52 – triple j Hottest 100 (‘I Used To Be Fun’)

J Awards Australian Album of the Year nominee

AIR Awards Best Independent Rock Album or EPwinner

APRA Awards Song of the Year shortlist  (‘I Used To Be Fun’)

APRA Awards Emerging Songwriter of the Year nominee

AIR Awards Independent Song of the Year nominee (‘I Used To Be Fun’)

“they’ve got what it takes to lead the next generation of Australian rock royalty” – Australian Guitar

“the righteous fury blasts through” – The Guardian

“fast-rising grunge revivalists” – NME

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Fresh off the ‘Fix It With Salt’ east coast co-headline tour with The Grogans, rapidly rising stars TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS today announce I Love You Too, a deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed debut album I Love You, out Sep 20 via Domestic La La. I Love You Too features three brand new songs, ‘Please Me’, ‘we thought it would be a good time but it was a bad time’ and ‘Dull’ feat. Canadian ‘riotgaze’ twin sibling duo Softcult which is released today with its video. Stream/watch ‘Dull’ feat. Softcult HERE and pre-save I Love You Too HERE.

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are also thrilled to share they have signed with New York-based record label Mom + Pop Music (MGMT, Tiny Habits) for the world ex-AU/NZ – where their label-love-story with Domestic La La will continue – and with Warner Chappell for publishing. The band are heading to the United States for the first time this September to play Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival alongside Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Idles, Kim Gordon, The Breeders and more, with more North American news to follow in the coming days.

Since the release of I Love You last October, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have been an unstoppable force, debuting at #6 on the main ARIA Chart, selling out their national album tour, placing at #52 on the Hottest 100 (‘I Used To Be Fun’), opening for Foo Fighters in Naarm/Melbourne last December and being named one of Spotify’s New Noise Artists To Watch in 2024. They’ve since raked in a slew of accolades including nominations for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards, Song of the Year (‘I Used To Be Fun’) and Emerging Songwriter of the Year at the APRA Awards, Best New Artist and Best Single (‘I Used To Be Fun’) at the Rolling Stone Awards, Independent Song of the Year (‘I Used To Be Fun’) at the AIR Awards, and winning and Best Independent Rock Album or EP for I Love You at last week’s AIR Awards and Artist of the Year at the Music ACT Music Awards.

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‘Dull’ feat. Softcult is intensely warm and melodic, and thematically a companion-song of sorts to ‘I Used To Be Fun’. On ‘Dull’ they take the more challenging route of sitting still with your own thoughts, rather than working overtime to keep busy in a thinly veiled bid to distract yourself from them. Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers’ Anna Ryan shares, “Dull has similar themes to I Used To Be Fun. We had been talking about how it feels to not have that motivation like we used to, to go out and party, and that it’s often harder to sit with yourself and be alone with your thoughts rather than just distracting yourself with thing after thing! The lyrics “find it hard to take it slow, burning out and now it’s shows” really resonates with me and I think it’s like coming to terms with the fact that distracting yourself constantly is unsustainable. It’s good to learn to just sit with stuff and take it frikken easy!!” On collaborating with Softcult – aka the Ontario, Canada-based grunge duo made up of twin sisters Phoenix and Mercedes Arn-Horn – the band says, “We’ve been fans of Softcult from afar for a long time, when they said they were keen to record some parts for the song we were stoked! We are SO happy with how it turned out.”

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers stepped into new sonic territory on I Love You to create an expansive debut album well beyond their years. The individual strengths of their four distinct personalities in the band shine through, with their core dynamic based on a shared love and mutual respect for each other’s work ethic and talent. This continues on I Love You Too, with the three new songs showcasing the breadth of their craft spanning the delicate melodic moments on ‘Dull’ to the riot grrl-inspired wall-to-wall gang vocals on ‘Please Me’. This is a band never to be pigeonholed, and definitely never underestimated.

Formed during high school in their hometown of Canberra in 2019, TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS – Anna Ryan (they/them; vocals/guitar), Scarlett McKahey (she/her; guitar/vocals), Jaida Stephenson (she/her; bass) and Neve van Boxsel (she/her; drums) – made their mark with their debut EP Pretty Good For A Girl Band (2022), which featured ‘Girl Sports’ that landed at #55 on the triple j Hottest 100 and saw praise from The Guardian, triple j, frankie, The AU Review, Music Feeds, The Music and Kill Your Stereo among others. Now based across Dharawal Country/Wollongong, Ngunnawal/Canberra, and Naarm/Melbourne, the band have graduated into an astute group of early twenty-somethings, just as concerned about issues facing today’s women, non-binary people and young people everywhere as they are with making music that continues to push the boundaries.

TOUR DATES

Fri 9 Aug – Darwin Festival – Darwin, NT
Fri 27 Sept – Ohana Festival – Dana Point, CA
Sat 19 Oct – Big Pineapple Festival – Woombye, QLD
30 Dec-1 Jan – NYE on the Hill – South Gippsland, VIC

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TRACK LIST

I Used To Be Fun
Treat Me Better
Backseat Driver
I Love You
Your House My House
Salt (ft. The Grogans)
Cayenne Pepper
AHHHH!
Lights Out
Toe Bone
Never Saw It Coming
Kissy Kissy
Dull feat. Softcult
Please Me
we thought it would be a good time but it was a bad time

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AMNPLIFY – DB