Los Angeles-based singer and guitarist Will Paquin announces his self-released, guitar-forward, psych-laced, garage-rock debut album Hahahaout September 12th. The title says it all – an album of high-voltage creative chaos laced in something rock tends to forget: humour.
With the announce comes “I Work So Hard,” a song Paquin originally started in middle school, bearing the mark of the psych rock like Ty Segall and the Oh Sees he loved in his formative years, but recontextualized it to his current life. About the track Paquin reflects, “I kept falling into patterns of working with no purpose, going through the motions just to check off boxes. The song is about coming to terms with my own false productivity.”
‘I Work So Hard’ joins last month’s single and album title track ‘Hahaha’, a song expressly built to ignite a crowd from the very first clang of a guitar. That’s not all for Paquin though, he’s ready to take the new energetic songs on the road, with the announce of a fall tour across the US and Europe. Full routing is below and tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10am local, buy HERE.
US/UK/EU Tour Dates
September 25th | Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
September 26th | Richmond, VA – Banditos
September 27th | Washington, DC – Songbyrd
September 28th | Durham, NC – The Pinhook
September 30th | Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Purgatory)
October 1st | Nashville, TN – DRKMTTR
October 3rd | Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves
October 4th | Austin, TX – Mohawk
October 7th | Los Angeles, CA – Scribble
October 8th | San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
October 10th | Portland, OR – Mission Theater
October 11th | Seattle, WA – Vera Project
October 14th | Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
October 16th | Milwaukee, WI – Falcon Bowl
October 17th | Minneapolis, MN – Icehouse
October 19th | Chicago, IL – Schubas
October 21st | Toronto, ON – Sound Garage
October 23rd | Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
October 24th | Providence, RI – Fete Lounge
October 25th | Boston, MA – Cafe 939
November 4th | Utrecht, NL – EKKO
November 5th | Paris, FR – Pitchfork Festival
November 8th | London, UK – Pitchfork Festival
November 9th | Southampton, UK – The Joiners
November 10th | Bristol, UK – Rough Trade
November 11th | Dublin, IR – The Academy 2
November 14th | Glasgow, UK – Audio
November 15th | Leeds, UK – Leeds In The City
November 17th | Stockholm, SE – Hus 7
November 18th | Oslo, NO – Blå
November 19th | Berlin, DE – Studio dB
November 21st | Milan, IT – Arci Bellezza
November 22nd | Bologna, IT – Covo