Today sees the release of 2023 Breakthrough Artist Of The Year ARIA Award Winners Teenage Dads highly anticipated sophomore album, MAJORDOMO, coming six years on from the release of their 2018 debut record, POTPOURRI LAKE. The sophomore record marks a pivotal moment for the breakthrough act who since their debut have sold out numerous headline shows in their home country and across the globe, garnered critical acclaim for their previous releases and have been nominated for and taken home multiple awards recognising their exponential growth.
Featuring recent singles ‘Weaponz’, ‘I Like It’, ‘Tale Of A Man’ and ‘Speedracer’as well as eight never-heard-before tracks, MAJORDOMO offers a fusion of the band’s soundscapes blending nostalgic, colourful arrangements amongst punchy, alt-rock anthems that pay tribute to the band’s earlier sound highlighting the band’s growth since their debut.
“A Majordomo is a person whose job is to make arrangements or take charge for another: someone who runs the enterprise,” the band says of the new record.
“We wanted to take that word and explore themes of control: how sometimes you might be the majordomo seizing the day, and others you are falling from the sky in a box, unable to do anything”.
Written, recorded and produced over the past two years working closely with Chris Collins (Royel Otis, The Buoys, Tyne-James Organ), the band explain “We recorded ‘Speedracer’ first in 4 hours … ‘I Like It’ and ‘Tale Of A Man’ came next and Summer 2023-2024 was when we bunkered down in the studio to record and finish everything and then some. So it has been a long journey for sure, but all the songs still feel so fresh to us which is exciting”.
MAJORDOMO is not just a musical evolution but a testament to Teenage Dads’commitment to authenticity and artistic integrity.
Album opener and focus track ‘Boarding Pass’ sets up listeners for the sonic journey they’re about to embark on throughout MAJORDOMO.
“From quite early on in the recording phase we all agreed that ‘Boarding Pass’ should open the album … Not only do the opening guitars feel right as an opening but as a whole, this song feels like it captures sounds from all points of the album; it’s vocally anthemic, the guitars rock out yet they also lay back at times and there’s even some worldly percussion in there” the band say of the focus track. “In the context of the lyrics, the song begins with the flight crew addressing the passengers before take off so that kind of literally represents us preparing the listeners for the rest of the album.”
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To celebrate the release of their new album, Teenage Dads will kick off their MAJORDOMO AU/NZ Headline Tour today, taking their new record to major cities across Australia and New Zealand playing their biggest venues to date. The New Zealand headline dates are Friday September 6 – Galatos, Auckland; Saturday September 7 – Moon, Wellington; and Sunday September 8 – The Church, Christchurch.
Tickets are on sale now available at https://www.teenagedadsofficial.com/tour
Following on from the huge AU/NZ album tour – including a festival appearance at New Zealand’s Snow Machine Festival – the band will be heading back to the US to join indie-pop royalty Dayglow as the main support on his US headline tour.