IAN SWEET releases "Holographic Jesus," new album 'Crush Crusher' out 10/26 via Hardly Art

                          

IAN SWEET RELEASES "HOLOGRAPHIC JESUS"

FULL US TOUR KICKS OFF THIS MONTH

 CRUSH CRUSHER OUT 10/26 VIA HARDLY ART

Photo Credit: Kelsey Hart

LISTEN TO "HOLOGRAPHIC JESUS"

IAN SWEET, the project of LA's Jilian Medford, has released "Holographic Jesus," the third and final single from her anticipated new album, Crush Crusher. Stereogum, who premiered the self reflective and emotionally analytical song today is calling it "larger-than-life."The song tackles many of the album's central themes, like the internalized pressure to become a caretaker in close friends' lives. 

Of the song, Medford says "'Holographic Jesus' is a song based around collecting holographic Jesus posters from various bodegas and dollar stores while living in Brooklyn. I am in no way religious but I hung them up all over my room and was constantly finding the nuances and idiosyncrasies of each one. You could turn your head the slightest and see an entirely different image reflected. I felt connected to that idea. Some people collect ceramic frogs or action figures but I collect holographic Jesus posters. This song is about the things I went through in that room while these posters were so to speak 'watching over me.'"

Crush Crusher is available for pre-order now and due out October 26th via Hardly Art.

Additionally, IAN SWEET has announced a full US tour with Young Jesus and Sean Henry that kicks off in LA this month with a record release show at the Lodge Room in Highland Park. All dates below.

WATCH VIDEOS FOR THE ALBUM'S PREVIOUS SINGLES

"HIDING" & "SPIT"

PRAISE FOR IAN SWEET:

"As IAN SWEET, Jilian Medford dabbles in the depths of anxiety and attempts to find something beautiful along the way... Crush Crusher finds the singer/guitarist at her most dissonant, mutating the sound around her to feel like it's traveled miles to get to her listener." - Pitchfork

"Some of her most emotionally intimate creations to date." - The FADER

"Emotionally complicated music that offers no easy answers... a heavy, gnarled exploration of self-sabotaging relationships." - Noisey

"Kinetic in a way that her previous work has only hinted at... It's always exciting to hear an artist release their best work yet, and that's exactly what Ian Sweet is doing on 'Hiding.'" - UPROXX

TOUR DATES:

10/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room #

10/20 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill #

10/22 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #

10/23 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret #

10/24 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern #

10/25 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic #

10/26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court #

10/27 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive #

10/28 - Omaha, NE @ O'Leavers #

10/29 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry #

10/30 - Chicago @ Subterranean #

11/1 - Toronto, ON @ The Monarch #

11/2 - Buffalo @ Mohawk Place #

11/3 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott # ^

11/5 - Brooklyn, NY @ Park Church Co-op # ^

11/6 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's # ^

11/7 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage #

11/8 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook #

11/9 - Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight #

11/10 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn #

11/11 - Orlando, FL @ 11Eleven Fest

11/12 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Wilbury #

11/13 - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa #

11/14 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall #

11/15 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links #

11/16 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk #

11/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #

11/20 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar #

# w/ Young Jesus

^ w/ Sean Henry