Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are excited to be releasing a deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed debut album I Love You with three brand new songs, “Please Me,” “we thought it would be a good time but it was a bad time,” and “Dull” featuring Canadian ‘riotgaze’ twin sibling duo Softcult.
“Dull” is intensely warm and melodic, and thematically a companion-song of sorts to “I Used To Be Fun.” On “Dull” Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers 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.
The band’s 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 Soltcult 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.”
Aptly titled I Love You Too, the extended version of the LP will be released on September 20th via their new partnership with Mom + Pop Music.
The band are heading to the United States for the first time ever this September to play Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival alongside Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, IDLES, Kim Gordon, The Breeders and more. In addition, they’ve announced a New York club date at Mercury Lounge on September 26th as well as an LA club date on October 1st at The Echo.
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