Teen Suicide have released a new video for “Suffering (Mike’s Way).” The track is off their forthcoming album Nude descending staircase headless, out April 17 via Run For Cover Records. The LP was recorded/produced by Mike Sapone (Taking Back Sunday, Oso Oso, Cymbals Eat Guitars) and its leap in fidelity alchemizes all of the personality, nuances, and raw edges that make Teen Suicide special. Teen Suicide are also gearing up for a lengthy run of North American tour dates with Cloud Nothings, Liquid Mike, University, and more.

Sam on “Suffering (Mike’s Way)”

“”Suffering (Mike’s Way)” was one of the first songs we started writing for this new record. I started working on it in 2022, not long after we started performing live again. I wanted to write something with the same propulsive energy of The Feelies, The Thermals, Wire. Jonathan Richman. That was our jumping off point, and it just sort of evolved from there. The song earned its parenthetical because Mike (Sapone, our producer) was adamant we amend the vocal melody in the chorus by a single note, and though I fought him on it at first, we tried it both ways and he was undoubtedly correct.
Lyrically, it’s harder to pinpoint – despite the name, I consider it one of our more optimistic songs. It’s a sort of love song. It’s a song about the world. About living life. About getting clean from opiates. How much better it is to feel everything than nothing. It’s really just a song about movement – forward momentum. All the times you think you can’t go on and then you just do, somehow, and suddenly you’re looking back at it all. And even then, you’re still moving.”

Over the years Teen Suicide has gone through many sonic evolutions, and the influence of Sam and Kitty Ray’s entire musical constellation (including TS alter-ego American Pleasure Club, Starry Cat, The Pom-Poms, Kitty, Ricky Eat Acid, and many more) can be felt in all corners of underground and even mainstream contemporary music. But Nude descending staircase headless is new territory even for these exceptionally pioneering artists: it trades the band’s usual lofi process for a widescreen studio sound combined with some of their most visceral songwriting to date. “On the older records everything was self-recorded, home-recorded, on a laptop or on tape, and always with really limited resources,” Sam says. “I think we became known for that but it was also very limiting to be seen as a lo-fi band.”

Teen Suicide 2026 Tour Dates

05/08 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile *#
05/09 Portland, OR – High Limit Room *#
05/10 Boise, ID – Shrine Ballroom *#
05/13 Denver, CO – Marquis *#
05/15 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge *^
05/16 Detroit, MI – El Club *^
05/17 Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s *^
05/19 Indianapolis, IN – Turntable *^
05/21 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar *+
05/22 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg *+
05/23 Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry *+
05/24 Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall *+
05/26 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade *%
05/27 Tampa, FL – Crowbar *%
05/29 Dallas, TX – Three Links *%
05/30 Austin, TX – Scoot Inn *%
06/01 Albuquerque, NM – Backstage at Revel *@
06/02 Mesa, AZ – Rosetta Room *@
06/04 San Diego, CA – Soma Sidestage *@
06/05 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex *@
06/06 Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone *@

* with Cloud Nothings
# with Anthers
^ with Liquid Mike
+ with University
% with fanclubwallet
@ with Pure Hex

Pre-order Nude descending staircase headless by Teen Suicide HERE