CocoRosie announce new album, share new song "Smash My Head"

October 30, 2019

After contributing to the new Chance the Rapper album, CocoRosie released their first new song in two years, “Lamb & the Wolf,” and today they announced what will be their first album in four and a half years, Put The Shine On, due March 6 via Marathon Artists (pre-order). It features “Lamb & the Wolf,” as well as the just-released “Smash My Head,” which sounds like classic CocoRosie, until it goes off into outer space Flaming Lips territory at the end. It’s pretty cool stuff — listen and watch the Bianca Casady-directed video below. Here’s what the duo says about it:

For us, our song “Smash My Head” is a running-on-fire cry from the teenage heart, an inner scream we never dared to let out. The song climaxes in an exaltation, an expression of ecstatic death. It journeys from a hard-knock desert childhood scene to a transcendent cosmic passing to another realm.

CocoRosie also have a Europe/UK tour announced for 2020. All dates are listed, with the album tracklist, below.

Tracklist
01. High Road
02. Mercy
03. Restless
04. Smash My Head
05. Where Did All The Soldiers Go
06. Hell’s Gate
07. Did Me Wrong
08. Lamb And The Wolf
09. Slow Down Sun Down
10. Burning Down The House
11. Ruby Red Bass
12. Aloha Friday

CocoRosie — 2019 Tour Dates
16th March Electric Ballroom, London, UK
17th March Trinity, Bristol, UK
18th March Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK
19th March The Art School, Glasgow, UK
20th March Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
23rd March Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
25th March Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
26th March AB, Brussels, BE
27th March Mojo, Hamburg, DE
28th March Zakk, Düsseldorf, DE
29th March L’Aeronef, Lille, FR
31st March Wagenhallen, Stuttgart, DE
1st April Les Docks, Lausanne, CH
2nd April Rote Fabrik, Zürich, CH
3rd April Le Trianon, Paris, FR
4th April Le Bikini, Toulouse, FR