Super American Announce Forthcoming Album "Gangster of Love", Dropping May 31st
Super American has announced their third full length album, “Gangster of Love”, to be released May 31 via Wax Bodega. They’ve also released the first single and music video for “Hopefully Pitchfork Doesn’t Hear This”, a tongue in cheek track that rides palm-muted guitar chunks into a soaring, anxiety-fueled chorus.
Produced by Sam Guaiana (Neck Deep, Bayside), “Gangster of Love” follows 2021’s SUP and 2018’s Tequila Sunrise and found the duo fleeing Buffalo for Los Angeles, where the push and pull between the two songwriters – the real magic at the heart of Super American – was allowed to flourish and grow in a brand-new environment.
Since forming in Western New York in 2016, Patrick Feeley and his musical partner Matt Cox have blurred the line between absurdism and existentialism, swirling ‘90s melodicism, new-millennium pop-punk energy, and heartfelt emo into a wry, smirking rock sound.
Super American feels like the equivalent of their hometown Buffalo Bills’ tailgate scene: gleefully rowdy and best enjoyed with a beer in hand (with the non-zero chance someone might end up leaping through a flaming table when all is said and done).
“SUP was basically a record filled with anxiety as a survival mechanism,” Feeley explains. “This time around, it was less of a victim mindset. Thematically, I feel like it’s more about yearnings and desires and what you want for yourself.”
“We wanted this album to feel like you were stepping into this little world, and working with Sam helped us accomplish that,” says Cox.
“Gangster of Love” will be released on May 31.Pre-save it here: https://go.mhe.fm/sup_gangsteroflove
Tracklisting:
MOMMA, I’M GONNA BE A STAR
Manager Haircut
Mental Karate
Okay. Eat Me Alive.
Hopefully Pitchfork Doesn’t Hear This
Drowning
Limerence II
IDWLG
TOXXXIC BLOODSTREAM
Who’s Gonna Get Me High?
Ugly Cryin’ With My Dog
Admirer
Altima Song
Between the release of SUP and the upcoming album, the band have endeared listeners on tours with the likes of Hot Mulligan, Taking Back Sunday, and Neck Deep and just finished a run with Free Throw and Carpool. They’re poised to go even wider now, bringing Super American’s brand of slacker rock to brand-new audiences.
“We’ve always approached the band from a very innocent, youthful place despite not actually forming as kids,” Cox says. “I think that’s been a little bit of how we’ve lasted so long, by not really being beholden to hindsight. It keeps us moving forward and able to find new listeners.”
Adds Feeley: “Whatever audience gets it and enjoys it, god fucking bless their souls because they must be sick.”