Hopeless Records is excited to announce the signing of Tiny Moving Parts. Today, they’ve shared “Medicine” the first single off the band’s forthcoming album breathe, out September 13th, 2019. Fans can watch the music video for “Medicine” here: smarturl.it/
Speaking to the track, Dylan Mattheisen said, “‘Medicine’ is about everything around you falling apart. When people come and go in a lifetime, I try to focus on the happiness and guidance they’ve provided me instead of the sadness of them leaving”
Mattheisen is afraid of death. That’s nothing new. In fact, it’s a fear that has flowed, in one form or another, through every album the Benson, Minnesota band has released so far. But on breathe, the band’s fifth proper full-length, it’s become more obvious and prevalent than ever. At the same time, this set of songs is designed to help quell those anxieties, both for Mattheisen and the dedicated following he and his cousins – brothers Matt and Billy Chevalier – have built up since forming the band in 2008.
“I just feel as time goes on that everything means more and more,” says Mattheisen. “So this record covers things we’ve talked about in the past – the fear of dying, losing someone through moving away or the passing of someone – but it concentrates more on the positives, and being happy things happened instead of sad they’re taken away. It’s about finding that mindset to keep on powering through.”
Written in between tours since the release of their last record, Swell, released in January 2018, breathe finds the band movingforward sonically as much as they are pushing through emotionally. Recorded with longtime collaborator Greg Lindholm, who oversaw seven songs, and established pop producer John Fields (Jimmy Eat World, Goo Goo Dolls, All Time Low), who handled the other three, breathe is full of the same emotionally-driven blend of math-rock, pop-punk and emo that they’ve made their own, but it also branches out.
breathe is more than just an album. It’s an emotional crutch. It’s moral support. It’s the friend we all need at our darkest times. It’s the sound of a band coming to terms with their own mortality, their own anxieties, their own self-doubts. And it’s a reminder that, as long as there are songs sung back as if our lives depend on them, we are never alone.
Tiny Moving Parts is Dylan Mattheisen (guitar/vocals), Matthew Chevalier (bass/vocals), and Billy Chevalier (drums).
breathe track listing:
1. The Midwest Sky
2. Light Bulb
3. Medicine
4. Icicles (Morning Glow)
5. Vertebrae
6. Polar Bear
7. Bloody Nose
8. Soft Spot
9. I Can’t Shake
10. Hallmark
Tiny Moving Parts Upcoming Tour Dates
July 26 – Milwaukee, WI – Colectivo Coffee Prospect Café
July 27 – Detroit, MI – West Riverfront Park
July 28 – Detroit, MI – West Riverfront Park
UK/Euro tour with Microwave, Lizzy Farrall
September 21 – Southampton, UK – The 1865
September 22 – Cardiff, UK – The Globe
September 24 – Dublin, Ireland – The Grand Social
September 25 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
September 26 – Glasgow, UK – Slay
September 27 – Birmingham, UK – Institute 2
September 28 – London, UK – O2 Academy Islington
September 30 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
October 1 – Paris, France – Supersonic
October 2 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
October 3 – Cologne, Germany – Luxor
October 4 – Hamburg-nord, Germany – Uebel & Gefärlich
October 5 – Leipzig, Germany – Felsenkeller Leipzig
October 6 – Berlin, Germany – BI NUU
October 8 – Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
October 9 – Vienna, Austria – Flex
October 10 – Bologna, Italy – Locomotiv Club
For more information, visit: www.hopelessrecords.com
