Delicate Steve will release his new album Luke’s Garage, on August 22nd. Steve Marion aka: Delicate Steve played every instrument on the forthcoming LP himself—guitars, drums, keys, bass. Along with the news, the artist is sharing it’s lead single “We’ll Be Friends.” The track is accompanied by a video featuring Steve’s friends Shannon Lay, Sarah Harris and Sam Kogon. In support of the LP Delicate Steve will head out on a North American tour, starting October 7th in Boston.

An important reference point for the album is Donuts, the classic swan song by the late Detroit hip-hop legend J Dilla, one of Marion’s favorite albums. That may be a surprising inspiration for an instrumental guitar record, but it makes sense as soon as you hear Luke’s Garage, the way it feels both off handed and profound, its deep beauty inextricable from its casual presentation. Marion’s love for Dilla is also evident in the way he treats each track as a little universe with its own parameters, its own language and laws of physics. And in the way he flicks through them as if he’s auditioning a bin full of records for a last-minute DJ set, giving each one whatever space it needs to develop and lingering for not a second longer than that.

The video for “We’ll Be Friends” captures a similarly loose and exploratory feeling with some equally unlikely influences, as Steve explains:
I watch a lot of Asian street food YouTube videos and videos of Japanese short order cooks. Sometimes a video of somebody showing you how to make a certain pasta in a kitchen in Italy. They are soothing to me. This is a wholesome soothing video without a plot. But the song is a little mischievous. Friendship is underrated.

Delicate Steve
Luke’s Garage
Tracklist

i
We’ll Be Friends
Have Fun Thinking
Light of the World
Shall Be Free
ii
Portrait
Sky Dog
Luke’s Garage
Nearly Everything
There Goes My Baby
Die With It
iii
I’m So Tired
In The Morning

Delicate Steve 2025 Tour Dates

10/7 Boston, MA – Crystal Ballroom
10/8 Brooklyn, NY – Xanadu
10/9 Washington, DC – Songbyrd
10/10 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
10/11 Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Music Hall
10/14 Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
10/15 Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
10/16 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
10/17 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
10/18 Minneapolis, MN – Ice House
11/19 Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley
11/20 Healdsburg, CA – Little Saint
11/21 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
11/22 Ojai, CA – Deer Lounge

Pre-order Luke’s Garage HERE