Rosie Tucker has announced their fourth album, UTOPIA NOW!, due out on March 22 via Sentimental Records. They produced it with regular collaborator Wolfy, and it includes November single “Unending Bliss.” See the cover art and tracklist below.
In a statement on social media, Rosie writes:
The album title is a bit of a trick mirror // I had been spinning on the idea that capitalism can metabolize dissent, and in this way UTOPIA NOW! might read like the hollow promise of an advertisement, a poke at how desperation can make us cynical and naive (paradise is near! are you buying it?) //
There is another reading, where UTOPIA NOW! is a demand, earnest and enraged // The United States remains genocidal, as culpable for the unfathomable suffering in Palestine as it is for the exploitation, incarceration, persecution and neglect shown to so many of the people within its “borders” // Me n my loved ones understand that oppression cannot stamp out the desire for freedom // and freedom cannot tolerate compromising one another //
The final meaning is simpler: UTOPIA NOW! is my present reality. When I get my mind right, I am confronted with it several times a day. //
While I was writing this album I fired my manager of many years, as at last my desire to develop my artistic agency outpaced the fear that I might be no good at calling the shots in my own life // While I was recording this album I was dropped by Epitaph Records // Creating a record “independently” has taught me that I am not at all alone, and this record would not exist without many invaluable and unexpected allies // I hope you will listen and know that it is a labor of love -ro
They’ve shared a new single, the pop punk-tinged indie rock track “All My Exes Live in Vortexes,” and you can watch the video below.
Rosie has also announced a US tour, beginning in San Francisco on April 23 and wrapping up in Phoenix on May 17. See all dates below.
The NYC show is at Baby’s All Right on May 8. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, January 26 at 10 AM local.
ROSIE TUCKER UTOPIA NOW! TRACKLIST
1. Lightbulb
2. All My Exes Live In Vortexes
3. Gil Scott Albatross
4. Paperclip Maximizer
5. Maylene
6. Big Fish/No Fun
7. Suffer! Like You Mean It
8. Unending Bliss
9. White Savior Myth
10. Obscura
11. Me Minus One Atom
12. UTOPIA NOW!
13. Eternal Life
ROSIE TUCKER: 2024 TOUR DATES
April 23 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
April 26 – Portland, OR @ Mano Oculta
April 27 – Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge
April 30 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake
May 2 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
May 3 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House
May 4 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
May 7 – Boston, MA @ The Rockwell
May 8 – New York, NY @ Baby’s All Right
May 9 – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
May 11 – Atlanta, GA @ Purgatory at Masquerade
May 12 – New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
May 14 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk – Inside
May 17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space