{"id":45578,"date":"2025-08-05T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45578\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:06:12","slug":"algernon-cadwallader-announce-tour-and-first-album-in-14-years-share-video-for-new-song-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45578\/","title":{"rendered":"Algernon Cadwallader Announce Tour and First Album in 14 Years, Share Video for New Song: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Algernon Cadwallader<\/a> have announced their first new album in 14 years. The influential emo band will release Trying Not to Have a Thought<\/a> on September 12 via Saddle Creek<\/a>. Algernon Cadwallader have also shared the new single \u201cHawk,\u201d with a music video that was directed by Darby Irrgang<\/a> and Ricky Christian<\/a>. Plus, they\u2019ve announced a headlining tour. Check out the new video and tour dates below.<\/p>\n

Trying Not to Have a Thought is Algernon Cadwallader\u2019s third album and their first since reuniting<\/a> in 2022. It follows their 2008 debut, Some Kind of Cadwallader<\/a>, long considered an emo classic, and 2011\u2019s Parrot Flies<\/a>. The new LP also functions as a return to form in the shape of their lineup, as it features original members singer-bassist Peter Helmis, guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony, and drummer Nick Tazza. The album was largely recorded and self-produced at Reinhart\u2019s own Headroom Studios in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Ian Cohen for Pitchfork<\/a>, Helmis elaborated on the album\u2019s title and lyrical themes: \u201cUs being a band again and having an audience, knowing that people are listening and also seeing all these super young kids on the reunion tour, we\u2019re speaking to another generation here,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s obviously a few songs that were about the current world we live in\u2014America, the empire. I didn\u2019t want to premeditate it, this is what\u2019s going on in my mind and probably everybody\u2019s mind these days. It\u2019s just overwhelming, which is where the title of the record comes from; \u2018Trying not to have a thought\u2019 is a euphemism for, like, meditation and trying to free the mind. But this is all the stuff that\u2019s rushing in all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Algernon Cadwallader will bring their headlining tour to North America in the autumn. Beginning on November 6, the band will perform across the United States and Canada, stopping in cities like Seattle, Chicago, Montreal, Philadelphia, New York, Denver, and Atlanta. The tour is set to conclude on December 15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

In a 2012 blog post, Algernon Cadwallader wrote that the band was \u201claid to rest\u201d and focused on other projects moving forward, including Hop Along<\/a> for Reinhart. In 2018, Lauren Records reissued the group\u2019s two albums on vinyl. After reuniting in 2022, Algernon Cadwallader went on a reunion tour<\/a>. Since then, the band has played at music festivals such as Best Friends Forever<\/a> and opened Joyce Manor\u2019s Never Hungover Again anniversary tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n