Imperial Teen is excited to announce their seventh studio album All Over You out October 9. Today, the band is sharing the album’s lead single “Overdrive” alongside its official music video. Watch it below, and listen to “Overdrive” wherever you stream music. All Over You is now available for preorder digitally or on CD, LP, and limited edition Marbled Violet Peak Vinyl from the US and UK Merge stores, as well as Imperial Teen's Bandcamp page!

Written during a late-session burst of inspiration in Provincetown, “Overdrive” captures the band’s signature mix of urgency, wit, and hook-driven energy, complete with a sly Sex Pistols nod and the album’s only reference to the internet. It's the first blush of an album that features the band’s most expansive, textured palette to date, drawing from bubblegum pop and boy/girl harmonies, electro beats and grungy distortion, power-pop anthems, and kiss-off lyricism, elements once dismissed as fads but long since proven timeless. All Over You makes a compelling case for Imperial Teen as architects of that sound, continuing to push the boundaries of pop music from one song to the next.

Lyrically, All Over You spans desire, disconnection, and the realities of making art under capitalism, while never losing the band’s core mission. “We want to make people dance and think and feel at the same time,” says Will Schwartz.

There will be plenty of opportunity to do so, as the band has also announced their first run of tour dates since 2020. They will join The Breeders at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre on August 22 and 23, followed by a run of headline shows in October spanning both coasts, with stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, and more. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.



Imperial Teen on tour: 
Aug 22 San Francisco, CA – The Castro Theatre * [SOLD OUT]
Aug 23 San Francisco, CA – The Castro Theatre * [SOLD OUT]
Oct 14 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon +
Oct 15 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill +
Oct 17 Seattle, WA – Barboza +
Oct 18 Portland, OR – Swan Dive +
Nov 03 Boston, MA – The Lilypad [SOLD OUT]
Nov 04 Brooklyn, NY – Baby's All Right
Nov 05 Philadelphia, PA – Nikki Lopez
Nov 07 Durham, NC – The Pinhook

* w/ The Breeders
+ w/ Kids on a Crime Spree