METHYL ETHYL
Tour dates rescheduled
to Sept & Oct 2020

“Hurts To Laugh” EP
out 10th April

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Methyl Ethel are pleased to share rescheduled dates for their Peter, Bjorn & John American tour and intimate Australian solo EP tour. Methyl Ethel will tour USA and Australia starting late September through October – including sold-out shows in Sydney & Melbourne. The full band will also appear at Splendour In The Grass. The full run of updated tour dates linked below.

Dot Dash Recordings and Remote Control Records will release Methyl Ethel’s new EP Hurts To Laugh on Friday 10th April.

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Hurts To Laugh marks the ongoing output of Methyl Ethel producer and multi-instrumentalist JakeWebb’s restless mind. Time and again he’s proven that while there’s no distinction between music and art, psychologically speaking there is a difference between feeling and emotion. One is a conscious response to a set of circumstances, the other is the unconscious conditions of our very being that only occasionally surfaces through feelings. Hurts To Laugh excavates this ambiguous site, implied by its very title. You can laugh so hard it hurts – pure joy. Or laugh despite the pain – despair. These paradoxes run throughout the EP, as well as everything that came before.

‘Majestic AF’ stumbles into its bubbling oscillator and analogue polyrhythms, while a kick-free drumbeat marches right into an atonal synth melody supporting Webb’s equally idiosyncratic falsetto.

Hurts To Laugh was recorded at the same time as 2019’s Triage and both releases feature cover art by Sydney-based artist Loribelle Spirovski. Triage was Webb’s third and final album in a trilogy of obliquely expressed relationship drama, starting with 2015’s Oh Inhuman Spectacle which features certified ARIA Gold single ‘Twilight Driving’. 2017’s Everything Is Forgotten birthed the sensational single ‘Ubu’ which is now certified ARIA Platinum.

Methyl Ethel is a project that’s the brainchild of a single mind—writer, performer and producer Webb—while also being a live band of five members. It makes music that draws from myriad influences and a history of new wave and indie rock, while sounding like its own thing entirely. Both familiar and alien, intimate and aloof, you never quite know what you’re in for, but the trip is bound to be enchanting.

Pre-order / pre-save Methyl Ethel – Hurts To Laugh via methylethel.lnk.to/hurtstolaugh

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Methyl Ethel
Solo
Tour Dates [Australia]

Fri 16 October –  Mary’s Underground, Sydney SOLD OUT
Sat 17 October – The Night Cat, Melbourne SOLD OUT
Wed 21 October – The Outpost, Brisbane
Sat 31 October – Goodwill Club, Perth

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Methyl Ethel
Solo

Supporting Peter, Bjorn & John [USA]

Mon 21 September – Teregram Ballroom, Los Angeles CA
Tues 22 September – La Santa, Santa Ana CA
Wed 23 September – New Parish, Oakland CA
Fri 25 September – TBC, Seattle WA
Sun 27 September – Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR
Tues 29 September – Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT
Wed 30 September – Bluebird, Denver CO
Fri 2 October – Amsterdam, St. Paul MN
Sat 3 October – Empty Bottle, Chicago IL
Sun 4 October – Loving Touch, Ferndale MI
Wed 7 October – Rough Trade, Brooklyn NY
Fri 9 October – Union Stage, Washington DC
Sat 10 October – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia PA
Sun 11 October – Brighton Music Hall, Boston MA

All tickets

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Methyl Ethel – Hurts To Laugh
is out Friday 10th April via Dot Dash / Remote Control!

Methyl Ethel
“Hurts To Laugh”

1. Majestic AF
2. Honest
3. Charm Offensive
4. What Memory Found
5. The Quicker

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