Since their great 2023 album Death Is Nothing To Us, Fiddlehead have been doing lots of festivals, guesting on friends’ records, and forming side projects. But the post-hardcore band is back today with the announcement of a new EP called Baby I’ll Change, out this week.
Fiddlehead’s three records — 2018’s Springtime And Blind, 2021’s Between The Richness, and the aforementioned Death Is Nothing To Us — operated as a trilogy about the death of frontman Pat Flynn’s father and his own entrance into fatherhood. But in late 2024, after he dropped off his wife and kids at the airport for a cruise with her family, he discovered his mother had passed. Guitarist Alex Henery and bassist Nick Hinsch showed up at his door the next day.
“We went to Pat’s house just to support him in a dark time and then we ended up writing music,” Henery explains. “It came out of a really good place, of us just wanting to write music together in that moment, and that freed us up to experiment.”
For the first time, Fiddlehead worked with popular Asheville producer Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman). The title track, which is out today, taps into a more vulnerable side of Fiddlehead, letting Flynn air out his feelings over sparse, liminal instrumentation, saving the sonic explosion for the latter half of the track. When it does come, it’s more shoegazy than usual. It’s great to hear their sound expanding after years of doing relatively the same thing, even though that thing was awesome. The single comes with a music video directed by Henery; watch below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “The Dogs”
02 “Porchlight”
03 “Baby I’ll Change”
TRACKLIST:
06/21 – Dresden, DE @ Farewell Youth Fest
06/23 – Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali
06/24 – Zurich, CH @ Dynamo
06/25 – Ysselsteyn, NL @ Jera On Air
06/26 – Paris, FR @ Mia Mao
06/28 – Manchester, UK @ Outbreak
07/13 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre *
07/14 – Seattle, WA @ Washington Hall *
07/15 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
07/16 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club *
07/17 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Church & State *
07/18 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
07/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lithuanian Music Hall ^
07/31 – New York, NY @ Warsaw ^
08/12 – Toronto @ Lithuanian House +
08/13 – Detroit @ El Club +
08/14 – Chicago @ Thalia Hall +
09/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Globe %
09/13 – Mexico City @ Warped Tour*
w/ Narrow Head, Knumears, Destiny Bond
+ w/ Narrow Head, Knumears, Sissy Boys
^ w/ Elliott, Self Defense Family, Posición Unida
% w/ Pity Sex, Febuary, Purest Form
Baby I’ll Change is out 06/26 via Run For Cover. Pre-order it here.
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‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com ’
