Massachusetts-based indie rock outfit Speedy Ortiz has just announced the release of their upcoming third LP, Twerp Verse, on April 27th via Carpark Records. Along with the album announcement, the band has given fans a little preview with a synth-heavy lead single, titled “Lucky 88” and an accompanying music video.
Apparently, the quartet started work on their new album, which follows 2015’s Foil Deer, in the fall of 2016. But they scrapped the material after the presidential election, realizing they wanted to pursue a more socially conscious direction, and wrote Twerp Verse in four months.
“The songs on the album that were strictly personal or loveydovey just didn’t mean anything to me anymore – that’s not the kind of music I’ve found healing or motivating in the past few years, and I was surprised I’d written so much of it,” singer-guitarist Sadie Dupuis said in a statement. “Social politics and protest have been a part of our music from day one, and I didn’t want to stop doing that on this album.”
Check out “Lucky 88” and its surreal video below. The single expresses optimism that space can be made for more radical agendas and socialist voices. “For the video, we wanted something evil, glossy, cynical, and camp,” Dupuis explains. “Our director Emily Yoshida came up with a concept that addresses our reliance on technology and apps that’s so absorbing, it’s hard to engage with the outside world, even when it is literally being consumed by slime (and, hello, global warming, melting ice, coral bleaching, impending heat death, make no mistake, it IS being consumed by slime).”
Also check out the album art and track list for Twerp Verse below.
Twerp Verse Track List
1. Buck Me Off
2. Lean In When I Suffer
3. Lucky 88
4. Can I Kiss You?
5. Backslidin’
6. Villain
7. I’m Blessed
8. Sport Death
9. Alone with Girls
10. Moving In
11. You Hate The Title
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
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