We’re getting into a daring new period the place it’s completely regular for bands to launch a number of albums within the area of a 12 months. That’s enjoyable! It hearkens again to earlier pop-history eras, when everybody needed to always have new music out available on the market on a regular basis and when the push to maintain cranking out tunes pressured a whole lot of artists to provide you with dizzily artistic new concepts. The most recent within the membership is PACKS, the Toronto band that started off as a solo challenge for mastermind Madeline Hyperlink. PACKS launched their sophomore LP Crispy Crunchy Nothing in March, and Hyperlink simply appeared on the Empty Nesters tune “The Simphony” a number of days in the past. Now, there’s an entire new PACKS album on the horizon.

PACKS recorded their new LP Soften The Honey over the course of 11 days in Mexico earlier this 12 months, proper across the identical time that they launched Crispy Crunchy Nothing. It’s set to return out on the prime of 2024. First single “Honey,” the album’s sort-of title monitor, is a heat and hazy piece of indie rock with some critically slapdash ’90s model. Right here’s what Madeleine Hyperlink says about it:

I wrote this tune whereas I used to be residing in a tiny seashore city in Chile, nestled between two hills. They don’t have maple syrup down there, so we’d have honey as an alternative. To maintain the honey from burning, you must soften it a particular method! As this developed right into a behavior, I believe I used to be struck by how cute it was.

PACKS have excursions developing with Geese and Sluggish Pulp. Beneath, try the “Honey” video, the Soften The Honey tracklist, and their tour dates.

TRACKLIST:
01 “89 Days”
02 “Honey”
03 “Pearly Whites”
04 “HFCS”
05 “AmyW”
06 “Take Care”
07 “Her Backyard”
08 “Paige Machine”
09 “Missy”
10 “Trippin”
11 “Time Loop”

TOUR DATES:
9/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
10/01 – Washington, DC @ Pie Store
10/04 – Troy, NY @ No Enjoyable *
10/06 – Boston, MA @ Sinclair *
10/07 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz *
10/08 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet *
10/10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Bottlerocket *
10/11 – Detroit, MI @ Third Man *
10/12 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Corridor *
10/13 – Milwaukee, WI @ Colectivo *
10/14 – Minneapolis @ seventh Road Entry *
10/16 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge *
10/17 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Kilby Courtroom *
10/19 – San Diego, CA @ Whistle Cease
10/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Ghengis Khan
10/22 – San Francisco, CA @ Backside of the Hill
10/24 – Portland, OR @ Mission Theatre
10/25 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Venture
10/27 – Vancouver, BC @ Inexperienced Auto
11/29 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Membership #
11/30 – Liverpool, UK @ Jimmy’s #
12/01 – Glasgow, UK @ the Hug & Pint #
12/02 – Dublin, Eire @ Workmen’s Membership #
12/04 – Manchester, UK @ Sure #
12/05 – Bristol, UK @ Unusual Brew #
12/06 – London, UK @ Moth Membership #
12/07 – Brighton, UK @ Inexperienced Door Retailer #
12/10 – Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix #
12/11 – Paris, France @ L’Worldwide #
12/13 – Berlin, Germany @ Bedehaus Szimiple #
12/14 – Leipzig, Germany @ Conne Island #
12/15 – Schorndorf, Germany @ Membership Manufaktur #
12/16 – Munster, Germany @ Gleis 22 #

* supporting Geese
# supporting Sluggish Pulp

Style The Honey is out 1/19 on Hearth Discuss.