fanclubwallet, is the project of Ottawa, Canada artist Hannah Judge, their sophomore album Living While Dying, will drop on October 24 via Lauren Records (Joyce Manor, Mike Huguenor). Ahead of the album’s release, the band has shared new single/video, “New Distraction.”

Written during her ongoing experience with chronic illness, “New Distraction” captures the restless search for something – anything – to break the monotony. “‘Cmon, I’m waiting, for some kind of new distraction’ was a mantra circling my brain these last couple years,” says Judge. “This song came out of nowhere for me, though. I was too anxious to write a solo guitar lick for this but the band encouraged me, and it became one of my favourite parts. It reminds me of a Coldplay B-Side.”

On Living While Dying, the question of mortality looms large. Paradoxically, it’s also a record of pristine, sun-drenched pop: Shania Twain with a Casio. The album inhabits a conceptual world of ghosts, haunted houses, the Black Lodge of Twin Peaks, and the bleakness of Fargo – spaces of liminality, isolation, and dread. But through all that darkness shines something human and deeply moving.

Judge began writing Living While Dying during a period of intense solitude and illness, managing Crohn’s disease. “I was thinking about dying a lot,” she says. “It felt like I was stuck. Alive, but in freefall.” Illness became its own kind of limbo. A later surgery brought a period of relief – a sudden return to hope and joy – only for illness to return again. The album captures all three phases: despair, recovery, and the fragility of both.

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Living While Dying
Tracklist
Lauren Records

Am I Being Greedy
Cotton Mouth
Know You Anymore
Head On
Do Over
New Distraction
Do You Hate Me?
Gears
I Love The Hell I Know
Guts
Me Time

fanclubwallet 2025 Tour Dates

November 5 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
November 6 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café
November 7 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
November 9 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
November 11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
November 13 – Seattle, WA @ The Sunset Tavern
November 14 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
November 16 – San Francisco, CA @ 4 Star Theater
November 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Moroccan Lounge
November 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit Live
November 22 – Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage
November 23 – Dallas, TX @ Dada Dallas
Nov 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Purgatory

pre-order Living While Dying by fanclubwallet HERE