Singer/songwriter Julien Chang will release his new album The Sale on November 4, via Transgressive Records. Ahead of the release, Chang has shared the standout track “Marmalade”.

The beating heart of “Marmalade” is not so much a love song as it is a song about the way memory makes sense of love. “I think the point is that memory runs up against certain limits in sense-making and then has to start relying on fictions.” comments Chang. “I wrote Marmalade at a time in which this feeling of passionate regret had just finished transforming into something domesticated, incorporated, and basically mundane–a part of everyday life, something that pops up in the mind from time to time and causes me to scrunch my nose.”

Explaining in more detail, he adds, “The verses are the positive struggle of trying to make sense of a past romantic experience; the choruses are the ensuing confrontation with non-sense (“I nearly lost my name!”); and the euphoric outro is the resulting victory of a false memory (“I remember falling in love! I remember falling in love! I remember falling in love!”). The single arrives alongside a mesmerizing video, directed by Layla Ku of New York collective MICHELLE, which you can watch HERE.

Recorded partially in his hometown of Baltimore and partially in his dorm room at Princeton, his new album The Sale is a homegrown effort with Chang playing all instruments, bar the odd exception of a few notable cameos from Baltimore locals, classmates and old friends. Following his debut Jules.

A statement of intent from an artist who promises to be an important rising voice of our times, Chang’s new single “Marmalade” is out now on Transgressive and his new album The Salewill be released on November 4th on limited edition vinyl, CD and digital.

Julien Chang
The Sale
track listing
Transgressive

1. Heart Holiday
2. Marmalade
3. Sweet Obsolete
4. Snakebit Side
5. Snakebit
6. Time & Place
7. Bellarose
8. Ethical Exceptions
9. Crossed Paths
10. Queen Of Sheba
11. Competition’s Friend

pre-order The Sale HERE