Andy Shauf has shared a new video for ‘Halloween Store’, a track from his latest LP Norm. He’s also announced a string of 2024 solo tour dates. Check out the hand-drawn video, created by animator Margaret Bialis and creative director Véra Haddad, and find Shauf’s tour itinerary below.
“This song was from a batch of songs where I was trying to make a disco record, and it was horrible,” Shauf said of ‘Halloween Store’ in our track-by-track interview. “But I had this song, and it was funny at the start, this mundane occurrence in this person’s life. I kept rewriting it and trying to figure out what I was going to do with it, and it just seemed like the perfect place for this chance encounter to happen. There is that element of, Halloween stores are kind of dark places – for economic reasons, and also they’re kind of scary. When you’re a kid, especially, some of the costumes scare you, but the vibe is just scary in general. It’s like desperate capitalism or something.”
“‘The Halloween Store’ video is a real central Canada/midwestern-drab inspired visualization of Andy’s sonic storytelling and dry humor,” Haddad commented in a press release. This song has great scenic details we got to explore through this records key characters ‘You’ and ‘Norm.’ ‘Halloween Store”s autumnal spirit informed our choice to animate physically with paper and ink — a little bit of a nod to the tradition of ‘Inktober’ where artists take on the challenge to draw everyday of the month.”
Bialis added: “I think design-wise I was inspired by the warmth and hominess of looking forward to Halloween when you were a kid (hopefully shown with the film being animated on paper with colored pencils), juxtaposed with how off-putting and cold liminal spaces can feel. I also thought it was important to have some charming moments throughout the film, but ultimately leave the viewer with the impression that maybe this Norm guy isn’t the most savory of characters. Maybe he’s more of a monster than the monsters we see at the Halloween store!”
Andy Shauf 2023-24 Tour Dates:
Oct 22 Dublin, Ireland – The Sugar Club
Oct 23 Cork, Ireland – St. Luke’s
Oct 25 Toulouse, France – Le Metronum
Oct 26 Barcelona, Spain – La Nau
Oct 27 Zaragoza, Spain – La Lata De Bombillas
Oct 29 Madrid, Spain – El Sol
Oct 30 Porto, Portugal – Mouco
Nov 1 Kortrijk, Belgium – De Kreun
Nov 2 Liège, Belgium – Reflektor
Nov 24 Seoul, South Korea – Musinsa Garage
Nov 27 Tokyo, Japan – Club Quattro
Nov 28 Osaka, Japan – Club Quattro
Nov 29 Aichi, Japan – Club Quattro
Dec 2 Hong Kong – Clockenflap Music Festival
Mar 21 Homer, NY – Center for the Arts
Mar 22 Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios
Mar 23 Portland, ME – First Parish Church
Mar 25 Boston, MA – First Church Cambridge
Mar 26 South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Brewing
Mar 28 Brooklyn, NY – Murmrr
Mar 29 Arden, DE – The Gild Hall
Mar 30 Vienna, VA – The Barns – Wolff Trap
Apr 1 Asheville, NC – Asheville Masonic Temple
Apr 3 Nashville, TN – Third Man Records
Apr 6 Eau Claire, WI – Pablo Center
Apr 7 Evanston, IL – SPACE
Apr 8 Evanston, IL – SPACE
Apr 20 Boulder, CO – Bluebird Music Festival
Apr 21 Boulder, CO – Bluebird Music Festival
Apr 22 Santa Fe, NM – St. Francis Auditorium
Apr 25 Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project
Apr 26 Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project
Apr 27 Ojai, CA – Ojai Women’s Club
Apr 28 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library
Apr 30 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
May 1 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
May 3 Seattle, WA – Washington Hall
May 4 Portland, OR – The Old Church
May 5 Portland, OR – The Old Church
May 8 Bend, OR – Old Saint Francis
May 9 Boise, ID – El Korah Shrine
May 11 Aspen, CO – Belly Up Tavern
