Pedro the Lion has unveiled two new songs, ‘Spend Time’ and ‘Don’t Cry Now’, from the upcoming album Santa Cruz. They follow lead single ‘Modesto’. Take a listen below.
“On ‘Spend Time’, and at this point on the album I was starting to write songs for It’s Hard To Find a Friend and reading everything i could find within christendom searching for a theological justification to make art for its own sake, instead of using music as a tool to share my faith,” David Bazan explained in a press release. “Once I found the permission to write for myself, I finally began to process grief, and that’s part of the background of this song. Like so many of the tunes on these records in this series, it’s a song about masking. And being ashamed of who I really was and what I really wanted to do.”
Of ‘Don’t Cry Now’, he added: “The music began when my friend Andy sent me a little loop and I just started jamming on it and made this phrase where the bassline moves around. I had the chorus for a long time and once I had a short version of the song, I listened to it over and over and really enjoyed it. I was really glad that this loop found a place on the record in this way. Again, it’s a song about masking very directly. For some reason it was really important to me that I was able to effectively sell the lie that I was OK. I felt like a lot depended on it.”
Santa Cruz is slated for release on June 7 via Polyvinyl.
