New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Hand Habits, the moniker of Los Angeles-based Meg
Duffy (they/them), shares "The Bust of Nefertiti," the final single from their upcoming new record, Sugar The Bruise, out this Friday June 16th on Fat Possum.
Sugar The Bruise, a new collection of songs focused on being in the moment, collaboration and improvisation has received praise from NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The FADER, Stereogum, Paste, UPROXX, Under The Radar, Brooklyn Vegan, and FLOOD, amongst others.
Hand Habits has also announced your dates supporting The
National in addition to the already announced headlining North
America summer tour. All dates below.
Inspired by month-long songwriting class
Duffy taught in the summer of 2021, they re-discovered, with newfound clarity, the generative capacity of embracing the unknown, and how essential collaboration and improvisation are for accessing the indescribable.
Working with Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic, Art Feynman) and Philip Weinrobe (Adrienne Lenker, Cass McCombs),
Duffy surrendered to the present moment, trusting that whatever sounds and words emerged were meant to emerge. With additional production, engineering and arranging from Jeremy Harris,
Duffy created something which, in their words, "turned out nothing like I'd imagined it would."
The result of this collective experiment, born equally from play and intention, is a radical gift for listeners: proof that our most vital processes, creation and destruction, are exquisitely entangled. The unanswerable and untenable suffering of experience is the fact of perpetual loss. And, yet, there is precious, vivid magic created by this condition. In Sugar the Bruise, grief folds in on itself and becomes laughter; language fades away into sonic expanses of the inexpressible; melodies melt into cacophonies; love songs surrender to loss; historic violence is supplanted by the disks of sunlight.
Tour Dates:
6/15 - Healdsburg, CA -
Little Saint^
6/17 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios^
6/18 - Vancouver, BC - The Cobalt^
6/20 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern^
6/22 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel^
6/24 - Los Angeles, CA - Barnsdall Gallery Theatre^
9/24 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook
9/26 - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
9/27 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
9/28 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
9/29 - Troy, NY - No Fun
9/30 - Montreal - POP Montreal
10/15 - Bristol, UK - The Louisiana
10/16 - London, UK - Omeara
10/17 - Manchester, UK - Gullivers
10/18 - Leeds, UK - Mill Hill Chapel
10/19 - Glasgow, UK - Hug & Pint
11/10 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium*
11/11 - San Diego, CA - Open Air Theater*
11/17 - Austin, TX - Moody Center*
11/18 - Houston, TX - White Oak Lawn*
11/19 - Dallas, TX - Toyota
Music Factory*
^ w/ Gregory Uhlmann
* w/ the National.
