Special Interest Announce New Album Endure, Share Video for New Song With Mykki Blanco: Watch

Special Interest have announced their new album Endure with a video for their new song “Midnight Legend” (featuring Mykki Blanco). The LP is due out November 4 via Rough Trade. They have also announced a run of North American tour dates; check out the full list of shows and the visual for “Midnight Legend” below.

Endure was self-produced and recorded at HighTower in New Orleans with James Whitten and Collin Dupuis. The record includes the single “(Herman’s) House,” which is about the Black revolutionary Herman Wallace of the Angola Three.

Of the new song, Special Interest’s Alli Logout said in a statement: 

[It’s] a love song to all the girls leaving the club at 6 a.m., a love song to everybody who doesn’t have love around them. The ways we numb ourselves or participate in high-risk behavior because we all feel so isolated and alone is also very much enabled by clubs, institutions, and party “friends.” This song is about listening to people who never actually get heard.

Special Interest released their last LP, The Passion Of, in 2020. Their debut LP, Spiraling, featured the Nina Simone–sampling “Young, Gifted, Black, in Leather.”

Endure:

01 Cherry Blue Intention
02 (Herman’s) House
03 Foul
04 Midnight Legend
05 Love Scene
06 Kurdish Radio
07 My Displeasure
08 Impulse Control
09 Concerning Peace
10 Interlude
11 LA Blues

Special Interest:

09-12 San Diego, CA – The Casbah
09-13 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
09-14 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
09-17 Los Angeles, CA – Primavera Sound
11-03 Bristol, England – Rough Trade
11-04 London, England – Studio 9294
11-05 Manchester, England – White Hotel
11-06 Glasgow, Scotland – Stereo
11-08 Leeds, England – Headrow House
11-09 Brighton, England – Komedia
11-10 Rotterdam, Netherlands – V11
11-11 Frankfurt, Germany – Ono2
11-12 Haarlem, Netherlands – Slachthuis
11-13 Kortrijk, Belgium – Sonic City
11-29 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
11-30 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
12-02 Toronto, Ontario – Velvet Underground
12-03 Montreal, Quebec – Casa del Popolo
12-05 Portsmouth, NH – The Press Room
12-06 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
12-08 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
12-09 Philadelphia, PA – Foto Club
12-10 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
12-12 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
12-13 Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor
12-14 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
12-16 New Orleans, LA – The Saturn Bar

Special Interest: “Endure” Tour 2022