NYC collective MICHELLE, shares “Mentos and Coke,” the second track off their forthcoming album due September 27th via Atlantic/Transgressive. MICHELLE shares about the new single, “‘Mentos and Coke’ is for the person you can’t help but lose yourself to. The one you just can’t stand, and can’t stand to live without.” The collective are presently on the road with Still Woozy on his Loveseat Tour, MICHELLE will be taking their catalog on the road once again during their fall North American tour titled A Tour For You Specifically. Launching October 30th, the tour includes stops in Vancouver, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles and more.

While writing their new album MICHELLE decided to rent out a house in Ojai, California. Surrounded by lizards, the smell of ripe cactus fruit, and endless expanses of sand, they experienced a sense of solitude and closeness they hadn’t before. It shifted the tone of their work. While their earlier music channeled the churning restlessness of the city, these news songs meander and expand into starry shoegaze reveries, slick funk riffs, and lilting 80s synth pop.

The months they spent touring, as well as the experience of living together in Ojai, fostered new bonds between the band. “There are friends I’ve had for almost my whole life who I won’t know as intimately as I know members of this group,” Emma Lee says. “There isn’t really an opportunity for that in any other kind of relationship in your life.” The sense of trust and comfort they fostered with each other allowed them to be more candid and vulnerable in their songwriting too. “It’s so easy to write a generic love or breakup song,” Julian Kaufman says. “But many of these stories are true. We’re coming from a really honest place.”

MICHELLE
Songs About You Specifically
Atlantic Records / Transgressive Records
Tracklisting

1. Mentos and Coke
2. Blissing
3. Akira
4. Cathy
5. Dropout
6. Noah
7. Missing on One
8. I’m Not Trying
9. Oontz
10. Painkiller
11. Trackstar

Michelle 2024 Tour Dates

8/2 – Toronto, ON @ History *
8/3 – Toronto, ON @ History *
8/5 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner *
8/6 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point *
8/8 – New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 *
8/9 – New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 *
8/18 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem *
8/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at The Mann *
8/13 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater *
8/14 – Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit *
8/16 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy *
8/17 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works *
8/19 – Orlando, FL @ The Orlando Amphitheater at Central Floria Fairgrounds *
8/20 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live *
8/21 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live *
10/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/1 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
11/2 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
11/3 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
11/6 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
11/8 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake Lounge
11/10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
11/13 – San Diego, CA @ Voodoo Room at House of Blues San Diego
11/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy Theatre

* = supporting Still Woozy

Pre-order Songs About You Specifically HERE