Today, Jade Hairpins—the duo of Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk (Fucked Up)—announce their sophmore album, Get Me the Good Stuff, arriving September 13 on Merge Records. Leading things off is the glam- and disco-saturated “Drifting Superstition,” a song that swaggers its way into the winner’s circle on an undeniable heater of a clavichord line but is, in winking Hairpins fashion, as self-deprecating as it is anthemic. It is accompanied by a Falco-directed video, a hero’s journey wherein the hero’s only guides are empty platitudes. Listen to “Drifting Superstition” wherever you stream music, and reserve your copy of Get Me the Good Stuff on CD or LP in the Merge store!

Jonah Falco on “Drifting Superstition”:

The song is about the double dead end of not trusting yourself enough to make good decisions, musically wrapped in a Mondays-meets-Bolan, funky filo pastry. With the video I am trying to bring together a simplified and lighthearted sense of the deeper contradictions and folkloric fantasies taken from the lyrics into something in the visual world of Pet Shop Boys’ “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and Lina Wertmüller.

Get Me the Good Stuff is an audacious record, cramming a discography’s worth of musical ideas and sonic evolution into a single LP. “Drifting Superstition” is one showpiece on an album full of them, existing, as Jade Hairpins’ best songs do, in contradiction, simultaneously taut and proudly excessive, bombastic and a little wounded. Alongside the absurdist punksploitation romp “L.I.E.” (“Life in England”), which served as early notice of what Jade Hairpins had been cooking up following their 2020 debut Harmony Avenue, it’s a tantalizing morsel of the good stuff they’ve got in store.

Before Get Me the Good Stuff launches in September, Jade Hairpins will embark on a brief tour of the UK and Europe, with more dates to come!

Jade Hairpins on tour:
Aug 24 London, UK – New River Studios
Aug 28 Istanbul, TR – The Wall
Aug 30 Yerevan, AM – Muha
Aug 31 Tbilisi, GE – Secret Place