{"id":9218,"date":"2023-05-20T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T15:59:50","slug":"spanish-love-songs-announce-new-album-no-joy-and-release-first-single-haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=9218","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Love Songs announce new album No Joy and release first single Haunted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spanish Love Songs<\/strong>, my favourite emo-punk band, have announced a new album – and released its first single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Haunted <\/em>is the first taste of No Joy<\/em>, the fourth album from the Los Angeles five-piece, due out on 25 August on Pure Noise Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2020\u2019s critically acclaimed Brave Faces Everyone<\/em>, which – combined with a UK tour with The Menzingers (see our live review here<\/a><\/strong>) – introduced them to a much wider audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formed in 2013, Spanish Love Songs had gained a cult following with their deeply personal existential dread-steeped 2015 debut album Giant Sings The Blues<\/em> and the follow-up Schmaltz <\/em>three years later.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Spanish Love Songs playing at Newcastle Riverside in 2020. Pic by Gary Welford. Top pic by Hannah Hall.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cHaunted <\/em>is a reintroduction of sorts for us,\u201d explains vocalist and guitarist Dylan Slocum. \u201cIt lays out exactly the band we are at the moment, and after nine months of writing and recording we knew it had to be the first to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Joy<\/em> is the sound of Slocum, his wife and keyboardist Meredith Van Woert, guitarist Kyle McAulay, bassist Trevor Dietrich, and drummer Ruben Duarte finding peace in quieter moments and embracing the negative space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the closest we\u2019ve ever gotten to figuring out how to translate what I hear in my head with more clarity,\u201d Slocum says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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