Hot Mulligan have announced their new album, Why Would I Watch, out May 12th via Wax Bodega. The announcement arrives alongside a new single, “Shhh! Golf Is On”, taken from the album, which can be heard now below. Pre-order/pre-save the album now HERE.
“Shhh! Golf is on” is about my mom. I’m asking her to die. Every time I hear about her, she’s a worse person than before,” says vocalist Tades Sanville on the song.
Produced by longtime collaborator Brett Romnes, Why Would I Watch is Hot Mulligan at their loudest, their poppiest, and, ultimately, their most poignant: twinkly Midwestern emo guitars and mathy, synthy-heavy rhythms, Sanville’s sandpaper vocals and indelible melodies. This lightning-in-a-bottle kinetic energy is encompassed on the aforementioned first single and in true Hot Mulligan fashion, a closer listen to the lyrics reveal an intense honesty that could get written off if you don’t pay attention.
Therein lies the true magic of Hot Mulligan, the push and pull of puns and pathos that might seem diametrically opposed at first but actually intersect to perfectly encapsulate life in a heavy, ADD-addled world.
The band don’t consider these groundbreaking topics, opting for more measured and at times resigned realism to deal with the melancholia and malaise of life’s ups and downs. “No one who’s depressed is crying all the time,” Sanville says. “The media likes to portray deep depression as sadness, but most of the time it’s indifference. That works its way into alternative comedy and shitposting. The two cultures collide perfectly. The titles are the shitposts and the songs are what everyone in this position actually feels.”
Hot Mulligan Tour Dates – tickets HERE.
w/The Wonder Years, Carly Cosgrove
MAR 7 @ The Showbox, Seattle, WA
MAR 8 @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
MAR 9 @ Knitting Factory Concert House, Boise, ID
MAR 11 @ Summit Music Hall, Denver, CO
MAR 12 @ The Truman, Kansas City, MO
MAR 14 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, Nashville, TN
MAR 15 @ Red Flag, St. Louis, MO
MAR 16 @ Concord Music Hall, Chicago, IL
MAR 17 @ The Athenaeum Theatre, Columbus, OH
MAR 18 @ Empire Live, Albany, NY
MAR 20 @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Canada
MAR 22 @ College Street Music Hall, New Haven, CT
MAR 23 @ State Theatre, Portland, ME
MAR 24 @ The Paramount, Huntington, NY
MAR 25 @ The Queen, Wilmington, DE
MAR 26 @ The Queen, Wilmington, DE