{"id":82910,"date":"2025-08-20T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82910\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:17:08","slug":"former-pixies-bassist-paz-lenchantin-releases-new-single-hang-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82910\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pixies Bassist Paz Lenchantin Releases New Single ‘Hang Tough’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPaz Lenchantin<\/a>, who played bass in the Pixies between 2014 and 2024 following stints in Zwan and A Perfect Circle<\/a>, is re-launching her solo career with the upcoming LP Triste. The album arrives October 17, and she\u2019s just dropped leadoff single \u201cHang Tough\u201d along with a video.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had to make this record on my own,\u201d Lenchantin says in a statement, \u201cnot to prove anything, but just to have faith that music can nurture me back. And it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLenchantin created much of the music on Triste herself, but she did recruit two of her former Perfect Circle bandmates \u2014 drummer Josh Freese and guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen \u2014 to join her in the studio. She was also accompanied by Spanish-speaking musicians she met after posting a notice on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album began to take shape last year in Petatl\u00e1n, Mexico, when Lenchantin wrote a series of songs about a young woman falling in love with Jesus. \u201cLenchantin isn\u2019t necessarily religious,\u201d reads an official album bio, \u201cshe saw the story as a metaphor for salvation: the human drive to search for a god, or god-like figure, and to devote yourself to something that cannot love you back\u2026This guiding metaphor shaped the album\u2019s dream-like logic, with each lyric refracting a fragment of Lenchantin\u2019s own life into broader analogy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat was special to me in making this album was that I learned who I am, this far into my journey in music, simply by allowing myself the freedom of my own choice,\u201d Lenchantin said. \u201cIt became like witnessing a fallen tree in my own forest, without the need to yell \u2018timber.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe music is a vast departure from her work with the Pixies. She joined the alt-rock icons in 2014 after the group parted ways with bassist Kim Shattuck. \u201cCharles [Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis] is the greatest artist I\u2019ve ever worked with,\u201d she told Rolling Stone in 2022<\/a> as part of our Unknown Legends<\/a> interview series. \u201cI used to be like, \u2018This is missing in this band, and this is missing in this band\u2026\u2019 But working with Charles, Joey [Santiago], and David [Lovering] really glued me together and completed me in every way I was looking for. It really is the peak of the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 2024, after recording three albums with them and touring the world many times over, the Pixies announced that they were parting ways with her. \u201cMy departure is a bit of a surprise to me as it is to many,\u201d Lenchantin told Rolling Stone<\/a> when the news broke, \u201cbut it looks like they have a solid plan figured out, which in turn has pushed me to move onwards onto new projects that I am excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNot long afterward, a \u201cmajor artist\u201d asked Lenchantin if she\u2019d join her band as a bass player. \u201cI froze,\u201d she says in the album bio, stating that her past experiences in high-profile groups left her \u201ctraumatized.\u201d \u201cAnd how far can that get you?\u201d she asks, noting that she turned down the gig in favor of creating Triste. \u201cOtherwise,\u201d she said, \u201cyou\u2019re just going around in a circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Triste track list:<\/p>\n

\n\t1 \u2013 Novela
2 \u2013 Lows & Highs
3 \u2013 Woman Of Nazareth
4 \u2013 Hang Tough
5 \u2013 Wish I Was There
6 \u2013 Si No!
7 \u2013 In The Garden With The Devil
8 \u2013 Adam
9 \u2013 Lucia
10 \u2013 Sin Dios
11 \u2013 Save It For Hell
12 \u2013 Triste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paz Lenchantin, who played bass in the Pixies between 2014 and 2024 following stints in Zwan and A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49720,49,48,75,341,49721],"class_list":["post-82910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-a-perfect-circle","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-paz-lenchantin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}