There’s a certain beauty in dropping a 311 collab on 7/11, but that we’d expect nothing less from Teenage Wrist. The ‘gazing Los Angeles rock duo dropped a new track yesterday (July 11), complete with a guest drop from S.A. Martinez. The hazy pile-driver of a tune is the latest from the Wrist’s forthcoming album Still Love, out August 4 via Epitaph.
Needless to say, Marshall Gallagher (guitar, vocals), and Anthony Salazar (drums) are pretty stoked on the collaboration, which finds the voice of one of their biggest influences caught in Teenage Wrist’s blissful fuzz.
“We toured with 311 in the summer of 2022, and it was nothing short of life changing for me,” says Gallagher. “I’ve been a diehard fan since I can remember discovering music on my own. S.A.’s voice was the first thing I heard after peeling off the plastic on the ‘Blue’ album CD and popping it in my friend’s home stereo circa 1998. One of the most defining moments in my relationship with Anthony is when we sang ‘Down’ together at karaoke… Not only did S.A. destroy this performance, but the lyrics were 100 percent on point in keeping with his iconic style. A truly mind-blowing experience in Wrist history.”
While the friendships at the core of this union are warm and fuzzy, “Dark Sky” contains some pretty weighty shit. And center on some things a lot of us are feeling these days.
“The lyrics to “Dark Sky” were inspired by an essay written by my cousin (Suzannah Showler, phenomenal writer) about our relationship to night and darkness. Part of my own personal development has been accepting the things I don’t know and can’t control, forgiving and accepting myself for being flawed. So, I really connected with this idea that we are terrified of the dark on an instinctual level, but the pursuit of eradicating it (physically and metaphorically) throws the world out of balance. The ‘new pollution’ in this case is light pollution, or more in the context of the song, pursuit of what we think is right and good. It becomes exhausting and counterproductive — lately I’ve been finding it much more liberating to just admit that I know nothing.”
Dig into “Dark Sky” below, and catch Teenage Wrist on tour this fall, a headlining run that includes a September 19 romp at Sonia in Cambridge. Scan the days and hit play after the jump.
Teenage Wrist 2023 Headlining Dates:
September 05: Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
September 06: San Francisco, CA – Thee Parkside
September 08: Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
September 09: Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
September 11: Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
September 12: Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
September 14: Milwaukee, WI – X-Ray Arcade
September 15: Indianapolis, IN – Hoosier Dome
September 16: Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
September 17: Toronto, ON – Hard Luck
September 19: Cambridge, MA – Sonia
September 20: Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
September 21: Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Made
September 23: Birmingham, AL – Furnace Fest
September 24: Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern
September 26: Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub
September 27: Tampa, FL – New World Brewery
September 29: Atlanta, GA – The Earl
September 30: Nashville, TN – The End
October 02: Dallas, TX – Sons Of Hermann Hall
October 03: Austin, TX – The Parish
October 05: Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge
October 07: San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
October 08: Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
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