ANDY SHAUF SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “HALLOWEEN STORE” FROM NORM, OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
WATCH / SHARE “HALLOWEEN STORE” HERE
SOLO TOUR OF INTIMATE VENUES BEGINS MARCH 2024
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Today, Andy Shauf presents a music video for “Halloween Store” — one of “the best two songs on [Norm]…grounded by acoustic guitar but [featuring] lush instrumental breaks and repeating hooks” (Variety) – and announces a 2024 solo tour. In an enlightening interview with Stereogum in which he shared the story behind every song on the album, Shauf revealed “Halloween Store” was one of the first written for Norm, mulled over and reworked from when he envisioned it as a disco record. “It’s definitely a Halloween story,” he said, “I was hoping to put it out around Halloween, but I missed deadlines.” Now, with Halloween just around the corner, Shauf shines a flashlight on the much-adored Norm standout and “the album’s peak” (Treble). The hand-drawn “Halloween Store” video is charming and timely, a perfect visual accompaniment for the fast-approaching holiday.
Next spring, Shauf will embark on a North American solo tour, bringing his beloved live set to a slew of intimate venues in major cities and smaller markets. A full list of dates are below, and tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10am ET.
WATCH / SHARE “HALLOWEEN STORE” HERE
Recently, Denmark’s Brodie Sessions released a special performance by Shauf and his band performing Norm’s title track, “Halloween Store” and “Sunset”. This was shot on 16mm and filmed at H.C. Ørsted Power Station in Copenhagen.
WATCH ANDY SHAUF PERFORM “NORM”, “HALLOWEEN STORE”, & “SUNSET”
FOR BRODIE SESSIONS
As hailed by Pitchfork, "[Shauf's] eighth album, Norm, is his most meticulous and beguiling, straying from his semi-autobiographical past work to span three perspectives and tactfully downplaying its philosophical quandaries with his lushest arrangements to date.” Shauf wrote, performed and recorded the album in its entirety and enlisted Neal Pogue (Outkast, Tyler, The Creator) to mix. Pogue took the music’s sonic framework in a new direction, one with a greater sense of clarity and lots of space. Listen closely, and deep in the music, a shift happens as the world goes sideways. The tempo slows, vertigo slips in, or a discordant note appears. An uneasy clarinet phrase devolves into a busy signal. A lyric veers from a bird’s-eye-view to intimate thoughts. The result is a recognizable Shauf production, but with a flowing landscape of suppressed grooves propelling the songs toward uncertain destinations. He’s driving us out to a wild and dangerous place.
WATCH / SHARE “WASTED ON YOU” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “CATCH YOUR EYE” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “TELEPHONE” HERE
ANDY SHAUF TOUR DATES
Oct. 22 - Dublin, IE @ The Sugar Club
Oct. 23 - Cork, IE @ St. Luke's
Oct. 25 - Toulouse, FR @ Le Metronum
Oct. 26 - Barcelona, ES @ La Nau
Oct. 27 - Zaragoza, ES @ La Lata De Bombillas
Oct. 29 - Madrid, ES @ El Sol
Oct. 30 - Porto, PT @ Mouco
Nov. 1 - Kortrijk, BE @ De Kreun
Nov. 2 - Liège, BE @ Reflektor
Nov. 24 - Seoul, KR @ Musinsa Garage
Nov. 27 - Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro
Nov. 28 - Osaka, JP @ Club Quattro
Nov. 29 - Aichi, JP @ Club Quattro
Dec. 2 - Hong Kong, HK @ Clockenflap Music Festival
Mar. 21 - Homer, NY @ Center For The Arts
Mar. 22 - Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios
Mar. 23 - Portland, ME @ First Parish Church
Mar. 25 - Boston, MA @ First Church Cambridge
Mar. 26 - South Deerfield, MA @ Tree House Brewing
Mar. 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Murmrr
Mar. 29 - Arden, DE @ The Gild Hall
Mar. 30 - Vienna, VA @ The Barns @ Wolf Trap
Apr. 1 - Asheville, NC @ Asheville Masonic Temple
Apr. 3 - Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records
Apr. 6 - Eau Claire, WI @ Pablo Center
Apr. 7 - Evanston, IL @ SPACE
Apr. 8 - Evanston, IL @ SPACE
Apr. 20 - Boulder, CO @ Bluebird Music Festival
Apr. 21 - Boulder, CO @ Bluebird Music Festival
Apr. 22 - Santa Fe, NM @ St. Francis Auditorium
Apr. 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project
Apr. 26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project
Apr. 27 - Ojai, CA @ Ojai Women’s Club
Apr. 28 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library
Apr. 30 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
May 1 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
May 3 - Seattle, WA @ Washington Hall
May 4 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church
May 5 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church
May 8 - Bend, OR @ Old Saint Francis
May 9 - Boise, ID @ El Korah Shrine
May 11 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Tavern
PRAISE FOR ANDY SHAUF AND NORM
"Norm is a gorgeously produced collection of short folk-fiction. When given closer attention, the album unfurls into an anthology of dark, interconnected tales of loss, unrequited love and casual brushes with the divine." — Variety
"Shauf has a knack for those sorts of observational details, and he approaches writing lyrics a bit like writing fiction." — Vanity Fair
"Andy Shauf is a master at capturing the tragedy in the minutiae of human interactions." — The FADER
"Even at their most obscure, Shauf’s songs are as alive and full of mystery as the stranger beside you at checkout." — Pitchfork
“It's an album that further solidifies his position as a genre-leading storyteller” - Exclaim!
“A dreamlike serenity is undercut with unsettling desperation in ‘Catch Your Eye’” - New York Times
"[Andy Shauf is] just such a phenomenal storyteller." — NPR Music
“The certified crooner sharpens his pen for another beautiful narrative-based offering” -
RANGE Mag
"Rather than connecting the dots of its characters’ lore, Norm questions the format of the concept album in the first place, presenting pieces of evidence and asking the listener to find the story and draw their own conclusions" — Paste
"Like any good story, Norm rewards multiple listens. Its most indelible moments are enriched with Shauf’s curious details: The Price Is Right soundtracking a divinely hallucinogenic vision, a movie theater as a haven for peeping, and a climactic trip to a Halloween store." — MTV News
. “...each song like a new episode of a TV miniseries thought up by a more subtle Hitchcock, a less gothy Burton, a more disturbed Wes Anderson” - Northern Transmissions
"With his delicate touch and keen eye for detail, Shauf weaves together a rich tapestry of sounds and lyrics to create an atmosphere that is at once dreamy and introspective.” — Glide
