Hesitant Alien

Gerard Way

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Former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way will release his debut solo album ‘HESITANT ALIEN’ on September 29th via Warner Bros. Records. The new album will be available for pre-order at all digital retailers on Tuesday, August 19th. Fans who pre-order the album will receive the tracks ‘Action Cat’ and ‘No Shows’ instantly, while the accompanying video for ‘No Shows’ will also premiere on August 19th.

Working with producer Doug McKean, Way knew immediately what he wanted ‘HESITANT ALIEN’ to sound like. “I wanted to make the small things sound big,” he says. “My intention was to make 100 percent uncompromised art, using the currently least radio-friendly instrument, the guitar. I knew there would be lots of fuzz pedals. I knew I would play Fender instruments. I knew I would look at who my guitar heroes were in art school, Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein, and I drew a lot of influence from shoe-gaze and Britpop. I want the record to sonically galvanize people.” ‘HESITANT ALIEN’ was mixed by Tchad Blake (Arctic Monkeys, Black Keys).

Lyrically, Way wrote about what he knew at the time, “which was struggle, beginnings, finding a newness in the mundane and the abstract,” he says. “I looked to the Britpop poets like Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn, drawing upon everyday life. I also experimented with the abstract, and looked at Frank Black’s work both with the Pixies, and as a solo artist. There was no concept and no call-to-arms.”

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Track Listings

1. Bureau
2. Action Cat
3. No Shows
4. Casting Shadows
5. Millions
6. Zero Zero
7. Juarez
8. Drugstore Perfume
9. Get The Gang Together
10. How’s It Going To Be
11. Maya The Psychic

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