Denver punks Public Opinion have announced that they’ll follow a string of great singles and EPs with their first full-length album, Painted On Smile, due September 6 via Convulse Records (pre-order). It was co-produced by past-collaborators Ian Shelton (of Militarie Gun) and Taylor Young (of Twitching Tongues and God’s Hate and producer for tons of bands, including Militarie Gun), and vocalist Kevin Hart says, “We really wanted to try and expand the sound of the band more. That early 2000s stuff like The Strokes, The Hives, and Bloc Party was really important to us when we were kids, and I think this time we let a lot more of that infiltrate into what we were doing, and we ended up stumbling on more of our own sound.”
Lyrically, Kevin adds, “It’s me purging a lot of things that I feel negatively about. I think so much of my previous stuff was very ‘f*ck you’ and this is much more of a ‘f*ck me,’ apologetic kind of album.”
The first single is “Drawn From Memory,” a gritty alt-rock anthem that’s cut from a similar cloth as the aforementioned Militarie Gun and likeminded peers like Drug Church, and that comes with a Derek Rathbun-directed video that you can check out below.
Tracklist
1. Drawn From Memory
2. Hothead
3. Some Don’t
4. Stethoscope
5. Passes Me By
6. Chicanery
7. No Fruit At All
8. Dry Clean Only
9. Scene Missing
10. Wear & Tear
Public Opinion — 2024 Tour Dates
08/16 Denver, CO @ D3 Arts *
08/17 Colorado Springs, CO *
09/12 Omaha, NE @ Break Room
09/13 Springfield, IL @ Dumb Records
09/14 Bloomington, IN @ Roses
09/15 Grand Rapids, MI @ TBA
09/16 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
09/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Flying V Music Hall
* w/ Praise