‘Hang Touch’, the next peace album, has contributions from drummer Josh Freese and guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, two decades after everyone played together at Perfect Circle
PEACE LENCHANTINwhich played low in the Pixies between 2014 and 2024, after tickets at Zwan and The Perfect Circleis relaunching his solo career with the album Sadwhich arrives on October 17th. She just launched the debut single “Hang Togh”accompanied by a video.
“I had to do this album alone,” he says Lechantin in a statement. “Not to prove anything, but just to have faith that music can nourish me again. And it did.”
Lechantin created much of the music of Sad alone, but recruited two of his former bandmaters from the The Perfect Circle – The drummer Josh Freese and the guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen – To join her in the studio. She also had Spanish -speaking musicians she met after posting an ad in Instagram.
The album began to take shape last year in Petatlán, Mexico, when Lechantin He wrote a series of songs about a young woman falling in love with Jesus.
Lechantin It is not necessarily religious, ”says the album’s official biography,“ she saw history as a metaphor for salvation: the human impulse to look for a God or divine figure, and dedicate herself to something that cannot love you back … This guiding metaphor shaped the dream logic of the album, with each letter reflecting a fragment of their own life Lechantin in a broader analogy.
“What was special to me when doing this album was that I learned who I am, so far on my musical journey, simply allowing myself the freedom of my own choice,” he said Lechantin. “It became as witnessing a fallen tree in my own forest, without the need to scream ‘wood’.”
The music of Sad It is a major change in relation to the work of Lechantin with the Pixies. She joined the Alt-Rock icons in 2014, after the bassist’s departure Kim Shattuck. “Charles [Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis] It’s the greatest artist I’ve ever worked with, ”she told Rolling Stone in 2022, as part of our interview series Unknown Legends. “I used to think: ‘This band is missing, and that’s missing that band …’ but working with Charles, Joey [Santiago] and David [Lovering] It really united me and completed me in every way I was looking for. It really is the peak of the mountain. ”
In 2024, after recording three albums with the Pixies and tours around the world several times, the band announced that it was separating from Lechantin. “My departure is a little surprising to me, just like many,” Lechantin said to Rolling Stone When the news was released. “But it seems that they have a solid plan, which, in turn, has driven me to move on with new projects in which I am excited.”
Shortly thereafter, a “great artist” invited Lechantin to join your band as a bassist. “I froze,” she tells of the album’s biography, stating that her previous experiences in high profile groups made her “traumatized”. “And how far can this take you?” she asks, noting that she refused the offer to create Sad. “Otherwise,” she said, “You just walk in circles.”
This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Andy Greene on August 19, 2025, and can be checked here.
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Source: Rollingstone
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