Porches Announces New Album 'Shirt'

Porches, the recording project of NYC’s Aaron Maine, announces his sixth studio album Shirt, due out September 13 on Domino. Shirt is part angsty fantasy, part confessional melodrama – a rock album that oscillates between reality and make-believe to reflect both the innocence of suburban youth and the frayed reality of adulthood. A fusion of chaotic impulses, insatiable desires, and a perpetual yearning, Shirt plays with the tension between one's person and persona – the weight of your dreams crashing up against your reality. The result is something both familiar and uncanny, an anthemic tribute to this intrinsic duality built on crashing and caressing sounds. 

Today Porches releases new single “Joker,” featuring an intoxicated kick and clap. “God's grace” is repeated like a mantra, nodding to a pastoral and tropey Americana - in this case a boy and his dog, but elsewhere a girl in a well, a flag on a pole. Shirt’s hyper-sentimentality is always tempered by hinting at something darker pervading underneath.  “Joker” comes via a video directed by Nick Harwood alongside director of photography Ben Carey. 

Today Porches also announces a fall North American tour, which kicks off in October and includes Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre on November 7 and closes with a hometown show at Brooklyn Steel on November 20. Tickets to the Brooklyn show are available now; tickets for the rest of the tour go on pre-sale on Wednesday, May 15 at 10am local time - fans can sign up for pre-sale by DMing Porches’ Instagram account the codeword SHIRT to receive the presale code. Tickets go on general sale this Friday, May 17 at 10am local time at porchesmusic.com. The North American tour follows Porches’ previously announced UK/European tour earlier in the fall. All dates are below. 

UK/EU
9/18 - Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
9/19 - Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
9/20-21 - Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
9/22 - Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
9/23 - Bruxelles, BE @ Botanique
9/24 - Paris, FR @ Point Éphémère
9/26 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
9/27 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla
9/28 - Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
9/30 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
10/1 - Birmingham, UK @ Mama Roux’s
10/2 - London, UK @ Heaven 

NORTH AMERICA 
10/15 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
10/16 – Washington, DC @ Atlantis
10/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
10/18 – Durham, NC @ Motorco
10/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Hell)
10/21 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
10/22 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
10/24 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam
10/25 – Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
10/26 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge
10/28 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/31 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
11/1 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
11/2 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
11/6 – San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365
11/7 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
11/9 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
11/12 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
11/13 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s
11/15 - Birmingham, AL @ Workplay Theatre
11/16 - Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi
11/20 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel