Tess Parks is sharing “California’s Dreaming”, the track is off the artist’s forthcoming album Pomegranate, available October 25th via Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula. The new single also follows her recent inclusion on the official Beetlejuice Beetlejuice soundtrack with her 2013 track ‘Somedays’.

“California’s Dreaming” follows recent singles “Crown Shy” and “Koalas”, Pomegranate is the follow-up to Parks’ solo return after nearly a decade with ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’, which arrived in 2022. In support of Pomegranate, Parks and her band will play three intimate record store release shows in London and Brighton.

Written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, Pomegranate finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside Grammy-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire). Where ‘Dancing’ retained a fair measure of bedroom-demo charm, on ‘Pomegranate’ the canvas is bigger, with Meehan’s arrangements stretching all the way to the horizon.

Out today, “California’s Dreaming” is a piece of hypnotic, organ-soaked psych-pop reminiscent of her cult collaborative albums with The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe. On the underlying message behind the song, Parks says: “I believe people are innately good and everything that happens and everyone that comes into your life is a great teacher. EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY.

there’s so much tragedy happening in the world right now. It’s so easy to feel helpless. It feels self-indulgent to be someone singing at all from their own perspective. But if anything, this album is a gift of love, our contribution to the world of something beautiful that we made amongst so much pain. It’s our message of empowerment to keep going even when life feels unliveable and unjust – having faith that this moment will pass if you can find a way to just breathe into the next moment. Believing that the future could possibly be really bright… knowing that sharing your light really does have a butterfly effect, even in a small way within your community and your family and friends, you are capable of making a greater impact than you understand.

I went through a long period of feeling like I never wanted to make music again”, Parks says, “What is the point of singing? Everything is pointless. I was taking refuge making paintings, sitting in silence for hours. There was a lot of processing to do. I am so grateful that I was given the encouragement to continue creating with sound, and that’s what Ruari has done for me. It seems only right to give back that encouragement to others.”

Tess Parks
Pomegranate
tracklist
Fuzz Club Records/Hand Drawn Dracula

1. Bagpipe Blues
2. California’s Dreaming
3. Koalas (YouTube)
4. Lemon Poppy
5. Charlie Potato
6. Crown Shy (YouTube)
7. Running Home To Sing
8. Sunnyside
9. Surround

Tess Parks 2024 Tour dates

Oct 26 – London – Rough Trade East (Full Band)
Oct 27 – Brighton – Resident (Stripped Back)
Oct 30 – London – Rough Trade West (Stripped Back)

Pre-order Pomegranate HERE