Albert Hammond Jr has announced his new album Melodies On Hiatus, will drop on June 23rd via Red Bull Records. The guitarist, vocalist, songwriter of the Grammy-winning group The Strokes, has also shared “100-99” featuring GoldLink, alongside a video directed by Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg. Additionally, Hammond Jr confirms a run of headline shows in the U.S. in September, with stops in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco and more.

“I grew up listening to 90s hip-hop, and I would always gravitate towards the melodic hooks in the songs I heard on the radio, specifically anything Dr. Dre was producing or rapping on,” Hammond Jr says about the new track. “Years later, I noticed myself pulling from the style of those melodic lines in my guitar work, even though it wasn’t obvious to anyone else as I was so directly associated with being in a rock band. ‘100-99’ was something I’ve wanted to do for some time—work with a rapper over a beat and guitar part I wrote—and it’s really exciting that I was able to do it with GoldLink.”

“When we first met with Albert, it was clear we were all on the same page: we wanted to have fun and we wanted to experiment with simple concepts that tell a deeper story,” Ricciardi and Weinberg say about the video. “The album is 19 tracks, it’s sprawling but interconnected in a special kind of way, and we wanted to maintain that visually as well. The five videos we made for Melodies on Hiatus take place in a series of rooms all within one larger space, different scenes that string together one very long night. Throughout the entire process, Albert was so open and kind, he trusted us, and it cultivated a really pure, almost psychedelic environment.”

Melodies On Hiatus features GoldLink, Steve Stevens, Matt Helders and Rainsford, the album was co-written remotely with Simon Wilcox, mixed by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, M83, Metric, Chromeo) and mastered by Dave Cooley (Paramore, Spoon, Tame Impala, Jimmy Eat World,).

Albert Hammond Jr
Melodies On Hiatus
Tracklisting
Red Bull Records

1. 100-99 feat. GoldLink
2. Downtown Fred
3. Old Man
4. Darlin’
5. Thoughtful Distress feat. Matt Helders & Steve Stevens
6. Libertude
7. Memo of Hate
8. Home Again
9. I Got You
10. Caught by Night
11. Dead Air
12. One Chance
13. Remember feat. Rainsford
14. 818
15. Fast Kitten
16. I’d Never Leave
17. Never Stop
18. False Alarm
19. Alright Tomorrow feat. Rainsford

Albert Hammond JR 2023 Tour Dates

September 14—New York, NY—Racket
September 15—Brooklyn, NY—Music Hall of Williamsburg
September 16—Windham, NY—Cave Mountain Festival
September 20—San Francisco, CA—Bimbo’s 365 Club
September 21—Los Angeles, CA—El Rey Theatre

Pre-order Melodies On Hiatus by Albert Hammond Jr HERE