Premiere: Teenage Halloween Share New Double A-Aspect Single “Supertrans / Takeaway”

Announce New Album Til You Return Due Out October twentieth by way of Don Giovanni

Aug 02, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Pictures by Okie Dokie Studio

New Jersey punks Teenage Halloween started making waves within the DIY scene in 2020 with their wonderful self-titled file, debuting with a grand, honest, and hook-laden type of energy pop and punk. Since then, the band have been making up for misplaced time, touring incessantly and releasing a break up EP final yr with The Homeless Gospel Choir. Alongside the way in which, the band additionally cemented their line-up, fronted by guitarist, singer, and songwriter Luk Henderiks with Eli Frank on guitar, Tricia Marshall on bass and vocals, Peter Gargano on drums.

At this time, the band are again with information of their sophomore album, Until You Return. Together with the announcement, the band have additionally shared a hearken to their double A-side lead single, “Supertrans / Takeaway,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.

Themes of queer id and surviving in a hostile world run all through a lot of the band’s music, however “Supertrans / Takeaway” doubles down on each fronts, delivering one of many band’s most pressing efforts but. Henderiks (who’s non-binary) comes barreling by means of from the monitor’s first moments, joined initially solely by a singular distorted guitar. From there, the monitor rapidly builds right into a fervent, hovering excessive, leaning closely into the band’s anthemic aspect. On the melodic apex, Henderiks closes the one’s first half with a weak entreaty: “Take my id significantly / Empathy comes from inside / And when the anchor drops, let go.”

The band drops out momentarily earlier than returning in an adrenaline-fueled rush, carried by careening drums, hooky guitar work, and shout-along gang vocals. The only’s latter half is pure energy pop at its most potent and affirming. In the meantime, Henderiks’ lyrics pivot into some deeply confessional portraits of the day by day wrestle for survival: “Wishing I used to be motivated to work on my life / I get up with power ache, I pray for the afterlife… It’s survival / It’s absurd / Give it a hand / It’s all led to nothing.”

Henderiks says of the monitor and accompanying video, “‘Until You Return’ has been 3 lengthy years within the making and we’re so excited to lastly share this primary have a look at what’s to come back. We’ve at all times cherished the video work of our buddy Jordan from CALICUZNS and have been so happy that he hopped on board to direct the “Supertrans/Takeaway”. With this one, we wished to convey to life an absurdist horror B-movie-style visible that pits me towards a few of my biggest fears and anxieties with a triumphant battle towards them to be extra glad and transfer ahead. In the end, it’s a reminder that regardless of the impediment, you’ve simply obtained to imagine in your self and carry on operating in the direction of your objectives.”

Try the tune and video under. Til You Return is due out on October twentieth by way of Don Giovanni.