Hand Habits' Fall Tour, New Singles Out Now
Credit: Jacob Boll
Hand Habits, the project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Meg Duffy, releases a pair of new singles from their recently announced album, Blue Reminder, due August 22nd via Fat Possum Records.
Of the ebullient “Jasmine Blossoms,” released alongside a video by frequent collaborator Otium, Duffy says “this song really conjures for me the room and the time that I wrote it in—I was living in Mount Washington in LA, which is just such a beautiful, lush neighborhood. And there were (and are) these sort of unthinkable contradictions, between the beauty of the flowers and the trees and the birds around me, and then just being blasted with so much horrifying information and footage of war, death, and greed on the news and social media. This song is definitely not an answer to how to integrate those things, but I just wanted to try to sort of depict that experience, that one reality doesn’t negate the other. I come from a family where we don't typically talk about the tragic or dysfunctional, which I think partly led to me being a songwriter who talks about pain and grief a lot, and at the same time, to being a person who tries to cultivate some joy, while everything falls apart.”
“There was an actual dead rat rotting in my wall. It was disgusting and I was living with the smell and couldn't get to it, so there was truly nothing I could do but wait it out,” Duffy explains of the sweeping “Dead Rat”. “It just became this metaphor for me on a number of levels: There are definitely things that I’ve done or been through that a part of me would rather put behind the wall and never think about again… but that’s not the way the psyche or healing works, and things will find their way out, whether it's through a wretched smell or through acceptance or an open window, or all three.
Tour Dates
07/09 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum ^
08/21 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s ~
08/23 - Los Angeles, CA @ 2220
09/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
09/20 - New York, NY @ Nightclub 101
09/21 - Washington, DC @ DC9
09/23 - Albany, NY @ Lark Hall
09/24 - Montreal, QC @ POP MONTREAL
09/26 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Garage
09/27 - Ferndale, MI @ Magic Bag
09/28 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
09/30 - Pittsburgh, PA @ The Andy Warhol Museum
10/01 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
10/15 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
10/17 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
10/18 - Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
10/21 - Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
10/23 - Healdsburg, CA @ Little Saint
10/30 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon *
11/03 - Berlin, DE @ Astra Kulturhaus *
11/04 - Hamburg, DE @ Mojo Club *
11/05 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso *
11/07 - Manchester, UK @ New Century Hall *
11/08 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 TV Studio *
11/09 - Leeds, UK @ Project House *
11/11 - London, UK @ Roundhouse *
11/12 - Bristol, UK @ Trinity Centre *
11/13 - Dublin, IE @ The National Stadium *
^ supporting Yeah Yeah Yeahs
~ supporting Japanese Breakfast
* supporting Perfume Genius
