Spanish Love Songs release fourth album "Future Nausea", produced by Chris Walla and Sarah Tudzin
Dylan Slocum says he set out to make a big rock record that was "more angry than sad", built around ICE raids, climate collapse and far-right extremism.
Spanish Love Songs have released "Future Nausea", their fourth full-length. The record was tracked in separate sessions with two producers: former Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla and Illuminati Hotties' Sarah Tudzin.
The album borrows the widescreen ambition of heartland rock — shimmering keyboards, ringing guitars, outsized choruses — while rejecting the genre's backward glance. Instead of nostalgia, Dylan Slocum's lyrics face forward, following characters caught up in ICE raids, communities hit by extreme weather and collapsing ecosystems, and warehouse workers treated as disposable in the race toward same-day shipping.
The title track opens the record with Meredith Van Woert's synth lines introducing each instrument one at a time before the song breaks open. Singles "Living Blues" and "Good American" ride rolling basslines and four-on-the-floor momentum, while "New Fears" leans on slamming tambourine and festival-sized swagger. "Jan666" and "No Dreams" mourn the loss of a loved one not to death but to men's rights groups, a border patrol job and right-wing extremism. "Doom Tripping" lays out the album's guiding argument, and sparse closer "Until the Sun Explodes", largely captured in one take, points to love and companionship as the antidote.
As with past albums, the title came first, lifted from a phrase Slocum heard on a podcast and later reinforced by a conversation with his father-in-law about generations who dreamed of moon landings while today's watch billionaires fire vanity projects into space. "I actually think this is the least sad record we've ever made," Slocum said.
The band have launched the National Independent Venue Association's first Live Independent Tour, which visits independent venues exclusively. For their upcoming EU and UK dates, each show will offer a limited number of 'cost of living' tickets priced at €20 / £20.
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