Petey USA has introduced the discharge of his third studio album, The Yips, by way of Capitol Information. Produced by Chris Walla, previously of Demise Cab for Cutie, The Yips is an idea album, unfolding in a fictional dive bar with every track representing a unique desk of patrons engaged in a heart-to-heart discuss. The file is out July eleventh.
The file’s title comes from sports activities parlance, by which “the yips” refers back to the efficiency anxiousness that may forestall peak efficiency. On the album, Petey applies this flip of phrase to the anxieties of on a regular basis life. “The album’s about going through a period where just nothing’s clicking,” the Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based, genre-mashing dynamo explains, “so you go to a bar where everyone can collect themselves and get drunk.”
Petey USA will launch The Yips with sold-out album launch reveals at intimate venues in three cities: Chicago, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. He’ll assist Rainbow Kitten Shock on a number of East Coast dates in July and open for Zach Bryan on August 30 at Marshall College’s Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, WV. Ticket data will be discovered on Petey USA’s web site.
The artist has additionally shared a video for his new single, “As Two People Drift Apart,” off the upcoming album. The video options influencer/gamer/mannequin Vince Hacker within the persevering with adventures of Petey and Albon, which started in his video for “Don’t Tell The Boys” from his debut album. “As Two People Drift Apart” follows the discharge of singles “Model Train Town” and “The Milkman” off The Yips.
Working with Walla on the file was a life-long dream for Petey: “[Death Cab For Cutie’s] one of the few bands whose discography I know inside and out,” he says, “I’ve watched documentaries on how he made Death Cab records like Transatlanticism. So he was my number one choice.”
Order Petey USA’s The Yips on vinyl and CD now.
