{"id":93602,"date":"2023-05-17T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=93602"},"modified":"2023-05-17T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:52:39","slug":"spanish-love-songs-no-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/spanish-love-songs-no-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Love Songs Announce New Album &#8211; &#8216;No Joy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime\u00a0<strong>Already Heard<\/strong> favourites\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/tag\/spanish-love-songs\/\"><strong>Spanish Love Songs<\/strong><\/a> have shared details of their new album.\u00a0 As always, the pessimistic group have titled the album <em>&#8216;No Joy&#8217;<\/em>. The 12 track collection will be released on August 25th via <strong>Pure Noise Records<\/strong>. It sees the band co-producing with Collin Pastore (Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Illuminati Hotties) and was mixed by Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, M83, Best Coast).<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the announcement of\u00a0<em>&#8216;No Joy&#8217;<\/em>, a video for the album&#8217;s first single,\u00a0<em>&#8216;Haunted&#8217;<\/em>, has been released. It sees an extra-terrestrial being landing on earth, finding themselves in a dive bar where\u00a0<strong>Spanish Love Songs<\/strong> are playing.<\/p>\n<p>As for the track itself,\u00a0<em>&#8216;Haunted&#8217;<\/em> shimmers with New Jersey-inspired synths, a burgeoning anthemic quality, and <strong>SLS<\/strong>&#8216; distinctive existential lyrical dread.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHaunted is a reintroduction of sorts for us,\u201d<\/em> explains vocalist and guitarist Dylan Slocum.<em> \u201cIt lays out exactly the band we are at the moment, and after 9 months of writing and recording we knew it had to be the first to come out. We were ecstatic to bring it to life with Hannah (Hall &#8211; video director)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Lifers<br \/>\n2. Pendulum<br \/>\n3. Haunted<br \/>\n4. Clean-Up Crew<br \/>\n5. Middle of Nine<br \/>\n6. Marvel<br \/>\n7. I\u2019m Gonna Miss Everything<br \/>\n8. Rapture Chaser<br \/>\n9. Mutable<br \/>\n10. Here You Are<br \/>\n11. Exit Bags<br \/>\n12. Re-Emerging Signs of the Apocalypse<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;No Joy&#8217;<\/em> can be pre-ordered through <strong>Pure Noise Records<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purenoisestoreuk.com\/collections\/spanish-love-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spanish Love Songs &quot;Haunted&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bFB4lVRETsc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Haunted&#8217; Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>You pulled off the road so you could cry.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s too quiet in the suburbs.<br \/>\nSearched your mind to try to find<br \/>\nwhere the bottom really was.<br \/>\nWhen you felt nothing but young and in love<br \/>\nand they didn&#8217;t love you in return.<br \/>\nThe look that was in their eyes<br \/>\nis a memory you&#8217;ve burned.<\/p>\n<p>You sleep with a window open<br \/>\nand you hope the cold gets in your heart.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re not haunted.<br \/>\nYou just miss everything.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not a ghost,<br \/>\nso stop disappearing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another body in the McDonald&#8217;s parking lot.<br \/>\nThe cops stand around like there&#8217;s nothing to do.<br \/>\nYou start to worry that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll look like<br \/>\nwhen it catches up.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a stranger in your photos.<br \/>\nMelt into a drink with all your friends.<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;re swallowed in a moment.<br \/>\nThe metaphor is meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll say,<br \/>\n&#8220;that&#8217;s okay they never liked me anyway.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s a killer in your heart.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not haunted.<br \/>\nYou just miss everything.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not a cautionary tale,<br \/>\nso don&#8217;t you vanish on me.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re losing weekends<br \/>\nand then the days will start to slide.<br \/>\nYou keep breaking all these habits,<br \/>\nbut you can&#8217;t seem to get by.<\/p>\n<p>And you used to daydream about the things<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d do and say when you were famous,<br \/>\nbut now the plastic in your belly has you feeling all sorts of sick.<br \/>\nYou used to daydream.<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>not haunted.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just the devil in your skin.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll be this bleak forever, but it is a way to live.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not alone.<br \/>\nYou just miss everything.<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re feeling like a ghost<br \/>\nwould you come haunt me please?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s every trip into that empty house.<br \/>\nThe silence from the street.<br \/>\nYour blanket in your seat and the nearly muted TV.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no answer from you, and your phone blinks with my reply.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s that lump in my chest and my relief to hear you cry.<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish Love Songs in the UK in 2023<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Spanish Love Songs<\/strong> will be visiting the UK later this month as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/festival-preview-slam-dunk-festival-2023\/\"><strong>Slam Dunk Festival<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The LA-founded group will then be back following the release of\u00a0<em>&#8216;No Joy&#8217;<\/em> on August 25th as the main support for\u00a0<strong>Hot Mulligan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>August<br \/>\n31st Pryzm, Kingston<br \/>\nSeptember<br \/>\n1st Stylus, Leeds<br \/>\n2nd Academy 2, Manchester<br \/>\n3rd SWG3, Glasgow (upgraded)<br \/>\n5th Rescue Rooms, Nottingham<br \/>\n6th SWX, Bristol<br \/>\n7th Electric Ballroom, London<br \/>\n8th o2 Academy 2, Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read all about SLS&#8217; 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