Bachelor — the collaborative project of Palehound's Ellen Kempner and Jay Som's Melina Duterte — will release their debut album Doomin’ Sun on May 28. The band recently chatted with Pitchfork about their spontaneous recording process, friendship at first sight, and how their bond helps them brush off the bullshit. 

Today we get another single off the record – "Sick of Spiraling" which follows "Anything At All" & "Stay in the Car". Of the country-inflected track, premiering today via Rolling Stone, the band shared –

“Sick of Spiraling is one of the last songs we wrote and recorded together in Topanga. Both of us initially tried to play drums on the song but the groove wasn’t right so we enlisted help from James Krivchenia. He came over for a day and drummed on a few songs on the record, he really brought this song to life with his unique style. Ellen had the riff in her voice memos for a while, and had originally imagined it as a slow kinda melancholic song. Once we got together and listened back to the riff we heard it a whole new way as an upbeat driving song. After that Ellen wrote lyrics inspired by driving on tour and the rush and anxiety of being completely untethered and unprotected on the open road.” 

Bachelor will hit the road on their first tour ever in support of Lucy Dacus starting mid-September – tickets onsale now:

  • 09/11 - Richmond, VA @ The National #$
  • 09/13 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom #
  • 09/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West #
  • 09/15 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl #
  • 09/17 - Dallas, TX @ Trees #
  • 09/18 - Houston, TX @ Heights #
  • 09/19 - Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn #
  • 09/20 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger #
  • 09/22 - Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole #
  • 09/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Theater at Ace Hotel #
  • 09/27 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore #

# w/ Lucy Dacus, $ w/ Julien Baker