[MEDIA RELEASE] Fresh off the ‘Fix It With Salt’ east coast co-headline tour with The Grogans, rapidly rising stars Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers today announce I Love You Too, a deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed debut album I Love You, out Sep 20 via Domestic La La. I Love You Too features three brand new songs, ‘Please Me’, ‘we thought it would be a good time but it was a bad time’ and ‘Dull’ feat. Canadian ‘riotgaze’ twin sibling duo Softcult which is released today.
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are also thrilled to share they have signed with New York-based record label Mom + PopMusic (MGMT, Tiny Habits) for the world ex-AU/NZ – where their label-love-story with Domestic La La will continue – and with Warner Chappell for publishing. The band are heading to the United States for the first time this September to play Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival alongside Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Idles, Kim Gordon, The Breeders and more, with more North American news to follow in the coming days.
Since the release of I Love You last October, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have been an unstoppable force, debuting at #6 on the main ARIA Chart, selling out their national album tour, placing at #52 on the Hottest 100 (‘I Used To Be Fun’), opening for Foo Fighters in Naarm/Melbourne last December and being named one of Spotify’s New Noise Artists To Watch in 2024. They’ve since raked in a slew of accolades including nominations for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards, Song of the Year (‘I Used To Be Fun’) and Emerging Songwriter of the Year at the APRA Awards, Best New Artist and Best Single (‘I Used To Be Fun’) at the Rolling Stone Awards, Independent Song of the Year (‘I Used To Be Fun’) at the AIR Awards, and winning and Best Independent Rock Album or EP for I Love You at last week’s AIR Awards and Artist of the Year at the Music ACT Music Awards.
‘Dull’ feat. Softcult is intensely warm and melodic, and thematically a companion-song of sorts to ‘I Used To Be Fun’. On ‘Dull’ they take the more challenging route of sitting still with your own thoughts, rather than working overtime to keep busy in a thinly veiled bid to distract yourself from them.
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers’ Anna Ryan shares,
“’Dull’ has similar themes to I Used To Be Fun. We had been talking about how it feels to not have that motivation like we used to, to go out and party, and that it’s often harder to sit with yourself and be alone with your thoughts rather than just distracting yourself with thing after thing! The lyrics “find it hard to take it slow, burning out and now it’s shows” really resonates with me and I think it’s like coming to terms with the fact that distracting yourself constantly is unsustainable. It’s good to learn to just sit with stuff and take it frikken easy!!”
On collaborating with Softcult – aka the Ontario, Canada-based grunge duo made up of twin sisters Phoenix and Mercedes Arn-Horn – the band says,
“We’ve been fans of Softcult from afar for a long time, when they said they were keen to record some parts for the song we were stoked! We are SO happy with how it turned out.”
Photo by She is Aphrodite
