TEEN SUICIDE share new single 'Spiders' | New album 'Nude descending staircase headless' out 17th April via Run For Cover Records

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Teen Suicide share new single 'Spiders'

New album Nude descending staircase headless due out 17th April via Run For Cover Records

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Teen Suicide recently announced their upcoming album, Nude descending staircase headless, and today they're back with another tremendous new single, 'Spiders.'

Due out April 17th from Run For Cover Records, the album is Teen Suicide's first ever proper studio recording and marks the start of a new chapter for one of the most unique and impactful bands in modern indie rock. Nude descending staircase headless was recorded/produced by Mike Sapone (Taking Back Sunday, Oso Oso, Cymbals Eat Guitars) and its leap in fidelity alchemizes all of the personality, nuances, and raw edges that make Teen Suicide special. The result is an immediately gratifying release that’s faithful to the band's earlier music while also moving boldly forward.

Lead single 'Idiot' introduced the hi-fi and heavy new Teen Suicide to the world, and now 'Spiders' pushes the dynamics even further. The song swings from glistening verses to fuzz-drenched choruses on a dime, and for the first time Kitty Ray takes on lead vocals for the entirety of a Teen Suicide song with her agile voice howling out over the biggest riff they've ever concocted.

Kitty discussed the new song, saying: "This song was written on a sunny day in Florida, with birds chirping at the sliding glass door. The brightness of the day made me weirdly angry and I needed to release some venom. I wanted to scream about a girl who tied knots in my mind, and I wanted the guitars to do a certain thing, so Sam and I stayed inside and plugged away at it. This is the first song I've written for a full band with a human drummer. I was absolutely terrified to sing it live when we started playing it in 2024--it used to come out of me weak, like a baby goat bleat. Since then the song hurts less and screaming has helped me find my voice. I feel like it turned out pretty cool!"

Over the years Teen Suicide has gone through many sonic evolutions, and the influence of Sam and Kitty Ray's entire musical constellation (including TS alter-ego American Pleasure Club, Starry Cat, The Pom-Poms, Kitty, Ricky Eat Acid, and many more) can be felt in all corners of underground and even mainstream contemporary music. But Nude descending staircase headless is new territory even for these exceptionally pioneering artists: it trades the band's usual lofi process for a widescreen studio sound combined with some of their most visceral songwriting to date. “On the older records everything was self-recorded, home-recorded, on a laptop or on tape, and always with really limited resources,” Sam says. “I think we became known for that but it was also very limiting to be seen as a lo-fi band.”

Nude descending staircase headless is aggressive, catchy, intimate, and its lyrics are just as ambitious as the music, as the Rays wrestle with nihilism, addiction, and what it even means to try and make lasting art as the world embraces the path of least resistance at every turn. It's a truly sweeping rock album that's sure to please longtime fans and offers the perfect jumping on point for new listeners of Teen Suicide's dense catalog.

Teen Suicide have also announced a lengthy run of North American tour dates with Cloud Nothings, Liquid Mike, University, Pure Hex, and more. See full itinerary here.

Teen Suicide - Nude descending staircase headless album track list:

1. Anhedonia

2. Idiot

3. Suffering (Mike's way)

4. Spiders

5. The Knives

6. Everything in my life is perfect

7. Candy / Squeeze

8. Living death

9. Keeping Her Keys

10. Hypnotic poison

11. Kindnesses

12. Not born to run

13. Come and see the clown