The follow-up to his 2015 self-titled debut, was recorded with a full-band at Chris Walla’s Hall of Justice recording studio, and will be out on March 2 via Barsuk Records.
While most of the material on Hibou was recorded while Michel was still a teenager, there’s a newfound sense of maturity on this new release. And with getting older comes new worries to cope with. As such, Something Familiar finds Michel coping with anxiety and depersonalization. Michel elaborates in a press statement:
“Anxiety is an incredibly strange thing, and everyone has different forms of it. I think that songwriting was a really necessary way for me to try to express that, because people would always ask about it: What does it feel like? Describe it. I’d never be able to put it into words. It was such a relief when I began to experiment and communicate the effects of my anxiety with textures and poetry, rather than conversations.”
Pre-order the album here, check out the tracklist and watch the video for his brand new single "Fall Into", below.
Tracklsit:
01. Malison
02. Junipero Love
03. Amethyst
04. Fall Into
05. Glamour
06. Only In The Dark
07. Opia
08. The Way You're Breathing
09. Something Familiar
10. You Could Vanish Again
