Los Angeles–based group Young Jesus have announced a new album. It’s called Shepherd Head and it arrives September 16 via Saddle Creek. Today, the band has shared lead single “Oceans,” along with a music video directed by Stuart McClave and shot by Kadri Koop in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The new song features additional vocals from Young Jesus’ labelmate Tomberlin. Check out the visual below.
Shepherd Head follows Young Jesus’ 2020 full-length Welcome to Conceptual Beach. Frontman John Rossiter crafted the album following the death of a close friend, opting for a collaborative and improvisational songwriting process. Instead of the band’s usual method of rehearsing for months prior to recording, Rossiter and his band cut Shepherd Head live-in-studio in less than a week. Rossiter also added found sounds, voice memos, and more.
“I would pitch things down an octave and add strange reverb,” Rossiter said in a press release. “If a dog barked, I would isolate it and make it part of a beat. I recorded a voice singing on the street just walking by a storefront and Auto-Tuned it. Some guitar parts are just mistakes from voice memos that I chopped, stitched, and looped. I used sounds of rivers, people walking, friends talking. It was a lot of fun. I didn’t care about the fidelity of the recording. Whatever wanted to be in came in.”
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Shepherd Head:
01 Rose Eater
02 Ocean [ft. Tomberlin]
03 Johno
04 Shepherd Head
05 Gold Line Awe
06 Satsuma
07 Believer [ft. Arswain]
08 A Lake
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