Tuxis Giant announce details of their upcoming album ‘You Won't Remember This’ out August 15th via Worry Bead Records
Tuxis Giant by Omari Spears
Today, Tuxis Giant announce details of their new album You Won't Remember This to be released on August 15th via Worry Bead Records.
Based between Boston and NYC, Tuxis Giant have spent the past few years building a reputation in the DIY and indie scenes, playing alongside artists like The Rural Alberta Advantage, Frog, Horse Jumper of Love, and Ovlov. The new album is rich in storytelling, sitting naturally alongside the more introspective corners of indie-folk and alt-Americana.
Despite the self-effacing title, there’s both vulnerability and a quiet confidence to You Won’t Remember This. The record touches on themes of gender, growing into yourself, and family, all built into the album’s ark on human memory - how we remember, forget, and wish that we could forget.
To accompany the album announcement, the band also shares ‘Silver Cup’, the album's second single, following ‘Last Laugh’, which was released earlier in May. Written by frontperson Matt O’Connor (they/them), the deeply personal song explores O’Connor’s early experiences with gender dysphoria, likening the transformation of changing clothes to a magic, euphoric spell.
"It's about those private moments of euphoria", O’Connor shares, "when you can cast a spell and transform, even if you know it's only temporary." Over the band’s looping, web-like guitars and heartbeat drums, O’Connor sings a song of conditional hope - complicated by the knowledge that the magic might not last forever.
O'Connor continues, "I’m a nonbinary trans person. Before I came out, I spent years confused and uncertain, exploring my identity behind closed doors. Alone in my room, trying on different clothes, I felt euphoric seeing myself transformed in the mirror, almost like a spell was cast. But the spell could never hold for long. As I would change back to my other self, the euphoria would fade."
Earlier this month, O'Connor spearheaded the True Names compilation through Worry Bead Records, raising over £1,500 for the Trans Youth Emergency Project. It featured new songs from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, Pink Navel, and 15 other notable artists, receiving support from Stereogum, FLOOD, Post-Trash, Dork, and a long list of others.
Listen and buy True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth here
With You Won’t Remember This, Tuxis Giant channel that same raw honesty and communal spirit into something deeply personal but unmistakably generous.
Accompanying the release of ‘Silver Cup’, Tuxis Giant also share its music video made by Enne Goldstein, a trans artist in NYC. Speaking on the video, Goldstein said: "I have been a fan of Tuxis Giant's for years. I spend 50+ hours on every video I make, since I edit, direct, and animate the entire thing, and this particular video required printing out every frame and scanning them individually. I feel connected to "Silver Cup" in many ways, it feels like one of my closest companions.
Goldstein continues: It was the month of March for me. I feel closer to Matt because of it, too. I love the lyrics about exploring transness/external personal identity in a safe way. I love the idea that exploring yourself takes you somewhere else physically. I work a lot with the idea of transformation, as I am trans myself and I am interested in how energy shifts and changes in physical space and time. This song allowed me to visualize a world where we can see this take place."
Watch the music video below.
You Won't Remember This tracklisting
Simple Days
Holy Water
Days
Trying to be Numb
Heart Surgery
Language I Understand
Silver Cup
Family Funeral
Huey
Little Secrets of the Heart
Last Laugh
Reasons
What's Going On in Your Mind
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