Christian Lee Hutson has announced a new album, Paradise Pop. 10, which is set for release on September 27 via ANTI- Records. The follow-up to 2022’s Quitters was co-produced by frequent collaborators Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, and Joseph Lorge. It also includes guest vocals from Bridgers, as well as Katy Kirby and Maya Hawke. The first single, ‘After Hours’, which features synths from Shahzad Ismaily, comes with a video directed by Meg Ha. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“I wanted to make an eyes up record,” Hutson, who moved from Los Angeles to New York, said in a statement. “A looking forward record.” He added:
Sometimes when you live somewhere for a really long time, the place starts to feel like a memory graveyard. Every corner becomes kind of haunted in a way, kind of dragging you out of the present. That’s what LA became like for me. Spending so much time revisiting all these emotional landmarks ended up giving me the feeling that I was missing my life. Like it was passing me while I was looking the other way…. It felt really connected to the city. I would spend half my life in the car, just completely on autopilot, re-living my life, from the beginning, on repeat every day.
Paradise Pop. 10 takes its name from a real location deep in the woods of Parke County, Indiana, near where Hutson spent part of his childhood. Just past the population sign, a row of 5 houses sit on one side of the road and a cemetery on the other.
“When I was a kid, my dad used to take me up there, mostly because of the novelty of the town limits sign, but also because it was so quiet and peaceful,” Hutson explained. “For years, he would say that if life ever got too crazy, we could go up there and start living our real lives; be the people we were always meant to be.”
He continued: “It occurred to me while making this record, that most of our lives we spend waiting to ‘be the people we were always meant to be.’ I wanted to name this record after that town because it always symbolized an arrival to me. It was the ‘when’ that I looked forward to as a child. ‘When’ it all made sense and I was finally who I was meant to be.”
Paradise Pop. 10 Cover Artwork:
Paradise Pop. 10 Tracklist:
1. Tiger
2. Carousel Horses
3. Autopilot
4. Water Ballet
5. Candyland
6. Flamingos
7. Fan Fiction
8. After Hours
9. Forever Immortalized
10. Skeleton Crew
11. Beauty School
