In September, Andy Shauf announced his new album Wilds and released it a couple days later. Despite being so fresh off a batch of fresh music, Shauf returns with more new material today, this time via a pair of new serene-skewing singles, “Satan” and “Jacob Rose.”
Shauf says of “Satan”:
“When I was young, there were a few years where I wasn’t allowed to celebrate Hallowe’en. The church that I grew up in was saying that Hallowe’en was ‘The Devil’s Day’ and that it had its roots in satanic rituals. After a few years of this, my parents realized it was a bit silly to deny us our free candy and let us resume. The Christianity that I was brought up in said that believers went to heaven and non-believers went to hell. A sort of cartoon-like simplification of ancient texts. So with the lyrics of this song, I was trying to take this cartoon-like simplification of life (and death) and pair it with a cartoon-like version of this Christian hell. Where after you complete a long and disciplined life, you find yourself holding a bite-sized chocolate bar stapled to an invitation to a Hallowe’en pool party with Satan himself.”
Listen to both new songs above and check out Shauf’s upcoming tour dates below.
02/17 — Sheffield, MA @ Race Brook Lodge *
02/18 — Woodstock, NY @ Colony Cafe
02/19 — Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom *
02/20 — Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern Music Hall *
02/22 — Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *
02/23 — Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle *
02/24 — Birmingham, AL @ Saturn *
02/25 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West *
02/26 — Orlando, FL @ The Social *
02/27 — Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon *
03/01 — Houston, TX @ Heights Theater *
03/03 — San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger *
03/04 — Ft Worth, TX @ Tulip’s *
03/05 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre *
03/07 — Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf *
03/08 — Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole *
03/09 — Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern *
03/11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall ^
03/13 — San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 #
03/15 — Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theater #
03/16 — Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater #
03/18 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
03/19 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater
03/21 — Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
03/22 — Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
03/24 — Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theater
03/25 — St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill Duck Room #
03/26 — Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar #
03/27 — Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
03/29 — Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall #
03/30 — Washington, DC @ Black Cat #
03/31 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer #
04/01 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/02 — Waverly, RI @ The United Theatre
04/03 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
04/18 — Düdingen, CH @ Bad Bonn #
04/19 — Lyon, FR @ Epicerie Moderne #
04/20 — Bordeaux, FR @ Krakatoa #
04/21 — Paris, FR @ Trianon #
04/22 — Rouen, FR @ Le 106 #
04/23 — Luxembourg, LU @ Kulturfabrik #
04/24 — Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg #
04/25 — Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown #
04/26 — Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje #
04/28 — Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen #
04/29 — Oslo, NO @ Ingensteds #
04/30 — Stockholm, SE @ Nalen Klubb #
05/02 — Hamburg, DE @ Knust #
05/03 — Berlin, DE @ Silent Green #
05/05 — Bruxelles, BE @ Les Nuits Botanique Festival #
05/06 — Cologne, DE @ Luxor #
05/07 — Genk, BE @ Little Waves Festival #
05/09 — Birmingham, UK @ The Castle & Falcon #
05/10 — Edinburgh, UK @ Summerhall #
05/11 — Glasgow, UK @ Drygate #
05/12 — Manchester, UK @ Gorilla #
05/13 — Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club #
05/14 — Bristol, UK @ Fiddlers #
05/15 — Brighton, UK @ Chalk #
05/16 — London, UK @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire #
05/18 — Belfast, UK @ Empire #
05/19 — Dublin, IE @ Button Factory #
* with Yves Jarvis
^ with Haley Heyndrickx
# with Helena Deland
~ with Cassandra Jenkins
