Smith Westerns’ Cullen Omori Details Debut Solo Album New Misery, Shares “Cinnamon” Video

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Former Smith Westerns frontman Cullen Omori has announced the details of his solo debut. New Misery is out March 18 via Sub Pop. Find the artwork, tracklist, and music video for album cut “Cinnamon” (directed by Abigail Briley Bean) below. 

New Misery was recorded by Shane Stoneback (Sleigh Bells, Vampire Weekend, Fucked Up). Omori began writing these songs early last year, and in a statement, he said he wrote the music following long shifts listening to Top 40 radio at his medical supply company day job.

There is so much dirt in hospitals and fuzz and lint and dried blood on these [stretchers and wheelchairs]. We’d clean them down, which in a way is kind of therapeutic, and listen to the radio. Then we’d go back to [band member] Adam [Gil]‘s house and record demos for what was to become the skeleton of New Misery. I can’t sit down and say I’m going to write a Sam Smith or an Adele song or whatever. The closest I can get to that is making like this weird hybrid of what I think is a pop song.

Omori and his band will tour this year, as well. Check out the dates below.

New Misery:

01 No Big Deal
02 Two Kinds
03 Hey Girl
04 And Yet the World Still Turns
05 Cinnamon
06 Poison Dart
07 Sour Silk
08 Synthetic Romance
09 Be a Man
10 LOM
11 New Misery

Cullen Omori:

02-03 Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi
02-04 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
02-05 Champaign, IL – The Accord
03-24 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
03-25 Madison, WI – High Noon
03-26 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry
03-28 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
03-29 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
03-30 Boise, ID – Neurolux
04-01 Seattle, WA – Barboza
04-02 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fortune Sound Club
04-03 Portland, OR – Doug Fir
04-05 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
04-07 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
04-08 San Diego, CA – Casbah
04-09 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
04-11 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Jr
04-12 Dallas, TX – Prophet Bar
04-13 Houston, TX – Raven Tower
04-15 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
04-16 Nashville, TN – High Watt
04-17 Columbus, OH – The Basement
04-18 Washington, DC – DC9
04-19 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
04-21 Boston, MA – Great Scott
04-22 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
04-24 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe Tavern

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