Back in 2019, the gauzy indie-popper Julien Chang landed on our Best New Bands list thanks to his promising debut album Jules. Today, he's announcing its follow-up, The Sale -- which will be released in November -- and sharing its gliding, wistful lead single "Marmalade."
"I think the point is that memory runs up against certain limits in sense-making and then has to start relying on fictions," Chang said in a statement. "I wrote Marmalade at a time in which this feeling of passionate regret had just finished transforming into something domesticated, incorporated, and basically mundane--a part of everyday life, something that pops up in the mind from time to time and causes me to scrunch my nose."
Watch a video, which was directed by MICHELLE's Layla Ku, below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Heart Holiday"
02 "Marmalade"
03 "Sweet Obsolete"
04 "Snakebit Side"
05 "Snakebit"
06 "Time & Place"
07 "Bellarose"
08 "Ethical Exceptions"
09 "Crossed Paths"
10 "Queen Of Sheba"
11 "Competition's Friend"
The Sale is out 11/4 via Transgressive Records. Pre-order it here.
