Andy Shauf shares new single / video “Telephone”. New album ‘Norm’ out February 10th on ANTI-

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Andy Shauf shares new single / video “Telephone”

New album ‘Norm’ out February 10th on ANTI-

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Andy Shauf returns with “Telephone,” his new single/video off his forthcoming album, Norm, out February 10th on ANTI-. With Norm, Shauf upended his songwriting methods, creating a deeply haunting and unpredictable universe. “Telephone” follows the “jaunty” and “existential” (Stereogum) lead single “Wasted On You” and “Catch Your Eye,” in which “a dreamlike serenity is undercut with unsettling desperation” (New York Times). Shauf hates talking on the phone, so, imagining someone different, he wrote “Telephone.” The yearning intensity of the song went unusual places, and Shauf deemed it worth keeping. “I wish you’d call me on the telephone,” he begins in a half-whisper, “I want to hear your voice // reaching late into the night.”

The accompanying video, animated by Chad VanGaalen, features a returning character from Shauf’s “Catch Your Eye” video, and offers a fantastical continuation of its predecessor’s plot. "I love Chad’s animation style so much,” Shauf says of the video. “He takes normal things and makes them odd, but also makes odd things seem totally normal. We asked him to take us into the weird world of Norm and a few months later we received an email with a link to this video and it was everything that we hoped for and much more." There’s a story unfolding on Norm, leaping from song to song and video to video, illuminating the comedy and cruelty of humanity. Most of the action takes place in the gaps between tracks, but Shauf deliberately left open spaces through which audiences could enter to find the story and create meaning for themselves.

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