Now that Speedy Ortiz are inside the double digits, Sadie Dupuis decided it was time for the band to drop a specific double LP, too.
In honor of its tenth birthday, the Massachusetts-born band will launch a compilation of early and beforehand unreleased tracks later this fall, re-sharing Dupuis’ early solo work from when Speedy Ortiz was nonetheless a fledgling solo enterprise. Titled The Loss of life of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker…Eternally, the digital assortment drops November 12, adopted by the album’s bodily launch by the use of Carpark on January 28, 2022.
The 22-track album will embrace the whole thing of Cop Kicker and The Dying of Speedy Ortiz — every now a decade outdated — along with beforehand unheard songs, liner notes from Dupuis, and pictures and journal scans from the earliest days of the enterprise.
“I can’t declare Speedy as a solo enterprise anymore — I like working with the friends and bandmates who’ve carried out and recorded with me over time — and I’m glad I now have Sad13 as an outlet for my home-produced concoctions,” Dupuis says. “Nonetheless I’m so happy with these 22 solo songs, which I put a great deal of coronary coronary heart and time and sweat into in every 2011 and 2021, and it feels correct to honor them by lastly re-releasing them with Carpark (who I’ve labored with for pretty darn close to a decade, too) in a further extensively listenable method.”
The album rollout begins at the moment (October 13) with an updated mannequin of “Cutco” and an accompanying Blair Witch Mission-inspired music video directed by Dupuis herself.
“Rewatching Blair Witch Mission, I found the characters’ treatment of one another exemplary of the early 20s heedlessness I was venting about on ‘Cutco,’” Dupuis explains. “So with some help from my Speedy bandmates Andy Molholt and Audrey Zee Whitesides, we made a shot-for-shot homage to a ’90s horror fundamental—with one delicious change to the parts.”
Take a stab at guessing the twist, after which attempt the “new” single and video underneath.
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