Parquet Courts frontman A. Savage has introduced his signing to Tough Commerce Information and launched a brand new single, “Thanksgiving Prayer,” which is produced by John Parish and comes with a video directed by Tiff Pritchett. It’s Savage’s first solo monitor since 2017’s Thawing Daybreak LP and options contributions from backing band Euan Hinshelwood (saxophone), Magdalena McLean (violin), Jack Cooper (guitar), and Dylan Hadley (drums).

Right here’s what Savage needed to say about “Thanksgiving Prayer”:

Properly, Thanksgiving is my favourite vacation, and yearly on that day I write down some phrases having to do with gratitude. Some years are higher than others, however the final one I celebrated these phrases simply kind of got here out of me. It was a fairly particular vacation truly, as a result of in reality we have been recording this music, however I made all people take a time off. [Producer] John Parish and his spouse Michelle have been sort sufficient to permit me to take over their kitchen to cook dinner the meal for everybody. Dylan [Hadley, drums] and I have been the one Individuals, so there was a little bit of explaining to do. So it was the band, the studio workers and the Parish household, and it was a completely pretty day. I used to be in awe of the kindness and mercy, and that’s what the music is about; being in awe of people. After I obtained again to my room I used to be on such a excessive so I began writing and this music is what was on the web page the subsequent morning, after we recorded it.

“The video is directed by an excellent younger director Tiff Pritchett, and she or he had this concept to kind of do a silent movie tribute,” Savage provides of the video. “The scene from Renoir’s movie Guidelines of the Sport the place Danse Macabre is performed was referenced, as was Klaus Nomi.”

Watch and hearken to “Thanksgiving Prayer.”

TOUR DATES:
09/30 – Newport, Essex, UK @ Murmuration Competition
10/20 – Portland, ME @ SPACE
10/21 – Boston, MA @ Crystal Ballroom
10/22 – Portsmouth, NH @ Press Room
10/24 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
10/25 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Eccentric Cafe
10/27 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
10/28 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Membership
10/29 – Milwaukee, WI @ Colectivo
10/30 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
11/01 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
11/02 – Louisville, KY @ Whirling Tiger
11/03 – Nashville, TN @ Third Man
11/04 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
11/05 – Asheville, NC @ Gray Eagle
11/07 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
11/09 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian
11/11 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom