Sweet Pill with Heart to Gold and Emily How

Sweet Pill has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold goes to Calling All Crows and their work mobilizing music fans and artists to fuel feminist movements.In addition to this partnership, Calling All Crows will also be providing the band with Mental Wellness Allyship Training focused on recognizing and responding to challenges on the road, helping equip them with tools and shared protocols to better support one another throughout the tour.Sweet Pills sophomore album, Still Theres a Glow, is a hard-fought document of self-reflection and growth. It is raw and real, stacked with a lyrical honesty thats matched by singer Zayna Youssefs soaring, expressive vocals. Written and recorded in the wake of a whirlwind three years following their 2022 debut LP, Where the Heart Isand after scrapping essentially an entire albums worth of demosStill Theres a Glow is a dynamic, cathartic journey of making conscious change within oneself.I went through some depression last spring, and then I went into therapy. It was also a big turning point in my life as I was about to turn 30, while Id written our first record when I was graduating from collegethats a big change, Youssef explains. I couldve kept making bad choices because theyre easy, but I had to come clean to myself. Half the album was written before and the other half after, so the songs are kind of hard on myself but some are also hopeful, with a light at the end of the tunnel. You put out a fire, theres still an ember thats still glowingthats the record. Its about being at a low and climbing out of it.The close-knit New Jersey/Philadelphia quintet had been going virtually nonstop since the release of Where the Heart Is (Topshelf). They went on tour with bands including La Dispute and The Wonder Years, embarked on their own headlining runsorganically growing a devoted fanbase with their passionate live show, which Stereogum has lauded as an immensely charming powerhousesongs that obliterate the distinctions between power and finesse, between pop and hardcore, between emo and the larger continuum of crowd-pleasing rock n roll. The young band earned co-signs from stars like Hayley Williams and Doja Cat, while continuing to tour nonstop worldwide and play festivals like Best Friends Forever, Riot Fest, and Outbreak.Though they were writing all the while, the exhaustion of new expectations and such an intense touring regimen took its toll. When the time came for Sweet Pill to begin recording the material they felt was meant to be their next album, Youssef was still figuring out what and how she wanted to sing on nearly half the songs. She was blockedno matter how many times she sat down and tried, things wouldnt click into place. I had just been trying to write these same parts for such a long time, she says. You do it, you say it, and you dont even have to think about it really. You just make the sounds, noises, and words, and you think absolutely yes, [but] it was like fuck, no every single time. I couldnt differentiate between what was just being hard on myself, or if it was like actually fuck, no. Now, I realize it was definitely 50/50. The band decided to start fresh and step away from most of the demos theyd created, choosing to instead pause, look inward, and move on their own time in order to ease the pressure they had been heaping on themselves over the past three years.

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