QUEEN OF JEANS to Release New Album hard/SWEET

Philadelphia band QUEEN OF JEANS is set to release a new album, hard/SWEET, this fall via Memory Music. The record explores tenderness as a form of resistance, with its title drawn from a lyric in the album's closing track. Ahead of the album's release, the band has also released a new single, Sweet Devotion.

Out October 9 on Memory Music, the label founded by Grammy Award-winning producer Will Yip (Turnstile, Title Fight), the title is taken from a lyric in the album's closing track ('I COULD BE HARD OR I COULD BE SWEET, JUST TELL ME THE VERSION YOU'RE NEEDING OF ME'), but works as a theme for the record as a whole.

Throughout, Queen of Jeans balance the tension between self-protection and kindness. 'We all have the ability to be hard or put up a wall,' the band explains. 'But we also share the vulnerability of waiting for someone to truly know us and break through.'

Produced and engineered by Justin Bartlett, mixed by Yip and Bartlett, and mastered by Yip, it's a fitting title for the band's fourth LP. Since forming in 2017, Queen of Jeans' sound has always been soft around the edges but explores feelings that are anything but. Over the years, they've refined a Signature Sound built around dreamy guitars, adventurous instrumentation, crushing lyricism, and one of the most underrated voices in modern indie rock: vocalist/guitarist Miri Devora.

With guitarist Mattie Glass, bassist Andrew Nitz, and drummer Patrick Wall, Queen of Jeans are effortlessly timeless but still of-the-times, and continue to be one of indie's most consistently compelling bands.

On August 11, Queen of Jeans share 'Sweet Devotion,' a song that lives somewhere between self destruction and self respect.

A grungy ballad with dirty guitars and flirty bass clashing into Miri's warm blanket vocals, it begins with the impulse to pick apart every flaw for someone you think will finally make you feel at home in your body. 'PICKING AT MYSELF, GUESS I'M TRYING TO REWRITE THE PAST,' Miri sings of the urge to become someone else's idea of enough before turning into a promise to finally care for your own heart instead.

Elsewhere on hard/SWEET, Queen of Jeans passionately muse about growing up ('Still Learning'); search for connection in a world that often feels increasingly divided ('Nothin''); and remind us that queer love deserves celebrating, especially in the places that grew us ('Bucks County').

By the end, it's less a reflection on relationships and more about hope, despite the overwhelming uncertainty of the world. It's a reminder that even in our darkest moments, the people beside us can be our anchor if only we're able to let them in.

Tracklist

Still Learning

Bucks County

Love Like Mine

Go, Be, Now

Sweet Devotion

Nothin'

Rush

Common Condition

Wait & See

HARD sweet

Sweet Devotion was produced by Justin Bartlett and mastered by Grammy Award-winning producer Will Yip, known for his work with TURNSTILE and TITLE FIGHT, at Memory Music, the label he founded.

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