Last month, Guerilla Toss released their single ‘Psychosis Is Just a Number’, which was produced by Stephen Malkmus. Turns out the Pavement leader produced the entirety of the band’s next album, You’re Weird Now, which is being announced today along with the delightful ‘Red Flag to Angry Bull’. Marking their second album for Sub Pop, following 2022’s Famously Alive, the 10-track record is due September 12. Check out the new track and find the album cover and tracklist below.
With Malkmus behind the boards, Guerilla Toss made the new album in The Barn, the recording studio owned by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, who can be heard soloing on ‘Red Flag to Angry Bull’. Other collaborators included engineer Bryce Goggin, who has worked with Malkmus since Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Phish’s longtime engineer Ben Collette. “His incredibly relatable down to earth approach to music and trusting yourself as an artist had a massive effect on this album and myself as a musician,” frontwoman Kassie Carlson shared. “Working with Malkmus, Bryce Goggin, Trey Anastasio, touring with Primus—all of that made me realize that what I’m doing is not wrong. The work is clear, important, and necessary. It’s not always easy or clear in direction or purpose, but creating, making, performing music is vital to my life, and a healthy earth.”
“These people have been doing this forever, and they’ve internalized that they are musiciansand their artistic choices are right for them and they believe in them,” she continued. “It’s really just realness and being true to yourself—whatever that means for you.”
“As a band, we’re always sort of trying to reinvent ourselves,” drummer Peter Negroponte added. “But with this record, instead of being like, what should we try that we haven’tdone—since we’ve done a lot of crazy shit—it was like, what have we done that’s the strongest, and how can we work off that. Let’s reach back into our own musical history and try to make even better the things that I thought were already the best.”
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