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Photo – Hannah Hall

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“One of the Most Anticipated Albums of the Summer”
– Brooklyn Vegan

Today, Spanish Love Songs have released a third new single from their upcoming album No Joy out August 25 via Pure Noise Records, with Pendulum out now.

Going more in depth on the lyrics of the song vocalist and guitarist Dylan Slocum explains, “The song is a few different stories blended together that all dance around the fact that death is such a solitary act. The details of the stories are meant to feel vaguely familiar — someone on the verge of dying alone in a hospital; someone with dementia; countless friends who’ve decided to end it on their own terms. We’ve all lost someone.”

Slocum continues “I think people generally don’t want to be left alone, or to die alone, yet that’s often all we’re left with. It’s all very terrifying, so a lot of the time I’m just trying to be present and enjoy what I’ve managed to scrape together. I wait for the pendulum of my worry to swing the other way, into some form of manic love.”

The new video was directed by Hannah Gray Hall, who was also behind the camera for the music video for the lead single Haunted.

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Recently hailed as “one of the summer’s most anticipated albums” from Brooklyn Vegan, No Joy will be released in full on August 25, 2023. Previously released tracks Haunted and Clean-Up Crew can be streamed on all platforms now here.

Brimming with new wave pastiche, fluttering synths, shimmering walls of chorus guitar, and four-on-the-floor rhythms, No Joy isn’t an exclamation point follow-up to the emotional catharsis of the landmark Brave Faces Everyone as much as it is an exhale – the sound of vocalist and guitarist Dylan Slocum, his wife and keyboardist Meredith Van Woert, guitarist Kyle McAulay, bassist Trevor Dietrich, and drummer Ruben Duarte finding peace in quieter moments and embracing the negative space.

Produced by the band and Collin Pastore (Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Illuminati Hotties) and mixed by Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, M83, Best Coast), the 12 songs on No Joy continue to find Spanish Love Songs grappling with the messiness of what it means to be alive in the modern age – unsure of the answers themselves but confident that together, we can all come a little closer to the solutions.

Brave Faces Everyone was about mustering up the strength to barely break even in an increasingly bleak world, No Joy is finding the internal peace required to stay in the black. As Slocum says, “it’s an album about finding happiness in what you have and your current moment. It might be your best moment, or it might not, but you have to find joy in it.”

Spanish Love Songs will embark on their first-ever tour in Australia this August, culminating in a special show in Melbourne on No Joy release day, and are gearing up for a UK/EU run with Hot Mulligan, with more global touring to be announced soon.

No Joy is out August 25 via Pure Noise Records.

Pre-order No Joy here

Stream Pendulum here

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NO JOY
Track Listing:

01. Lifers
02. Pendulum
03. Haunted
04. Clean-Up Crew
05. Middle of Nine
06. Marvel
07. I’m Gonna Miss Everything
08. Rapture Chaser
09. Mutable
10. Here You Are
11. Exit Bags
12. Re-Emerging Signs of the Apocalypse

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SPANISH LOVE SONGS
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Tour Dates:

SATURDAY 19 AUGUST – THE SHAKING HAND, CANBERRA
SUNDAY 20 AUGUST – SIN OR SWIM HARBOUR CRUISE, SYDNEY
MONDAY 21 AUGUST – HAMILTON STATION HOTEL, NEWCASTLE
WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST – VINNIES DIVE BAR, GOLD COAST
THURSDAY 24 AUGUST – BAD LUCK, BRISBANE
FRIDAY 25 AUGUST – STAY GOLD, MELBOURNE (SOLD OUT)
SATURDAY 26 AUGUST – STAY GOLD, MELBOURNE

Tickets from HERE

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About SPANISH LOVE SONGS:

Since 2013, the LA-formed indie-punk quintet Spanish Love Songs have made hay on the backs of a string of beloved albums – 2015’s Giant Sings The Blues, 2018’s Schmaltz and 2020’s Brave Faces Everyone – lauded by critics and fans alike for their richly personal, no- holds-barred lyricism awash in existential dread, hyper-personal cultural ruminations and attempts to answer life’s big questions.

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AMNPLIFY – DB