Angelo De Augustine has announced plans for his follow-up to 2019's Tomb. Fourth Studio album Toil and Trouble will arrive on June 30 via Asthmatic Kitty.
Having teamed up with longtime collaborator Sufjan Stevens on 2021 album A Beginner's Mind, De Augustine is once again focusing on his solo work, spending the last three years writing, arranging, recording, producing and mixing Toil and Trouble, which is said to be "an all-enveloping work that exists according to its own quixotic logic, inhabiting a psychic landscape as sublimely mystifying as a fever dream or fairy tale."
The artist explained, "This album came from thinking about the madness of the world right now and how overwhelming that can be. I used a sort of counter-world as a guide to try to gain some understanding of what's actually going on here — I had to take myself out of reality in order to try to understand reality."
Today, he shares the record's lead single, "Another Universe," alongside a self-directed claymation music video fabricated and animated by Owen Summers.
"I grew tired of reality and so I decided to make a world of my own. It is a safe world. The kind of place in which only good things happen," De Augustine said of the song.
Watch the video for "Another Universe" below, where you'll also find the album's tracklist.
Toil and Trouble:
1. Home Town
2. The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
3. Memory Palace
4. Healing Waters
5. The Painter
6. I Don't Want to Live, I Don't Want to Die
7. Another Universe
8. Song of the Siren
9. Blood Red Thorn
10. Naked Blade
11. D.W.O.M.M.
12. Toil and Trouble
Having teamed up with longtime collaborator Sufjan Stevens on 2021 album A Beginner's Mind, De Augustine is once again focusing on his solo work, spending the last three years writing, arranging, recording, producing and mixing Toil and Trouble, which is said to be "an all-enveloping work that exists according to its own quixotic logic, inhabiting a psychic landscape as sublimely mystifying as a fever dream or fairy tale."
The artist explained, "This album came from thinking about the madness of the world right now and how overwhelming that can be. I used a sort of counter-world as a guide to try to gain some understanding of what's actually going on here — I had to take myself out of reality in order to try to understand reality."
Today, he shares the record's lead single, "Another Universe," alongside a self-directed claymation music video fabricated and animated by Owen Summers.
"I grew tired of reality and so I decided to make a world of my own. It is a safe world. The kind of place in which only good things happen," De Augustine said of the song.
Watch the video for "Another Universe" below, where you'll also find the album's tracklist.
Toil and Trouble:
1. Home Town
2. The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
3. Memory Palace
4. Healing Waters
5. The Painter
6. I Don't Want to Live, I Don't Want to Die
7. Another Universe
8. Song of the Siren
9. Blood Red Thorn
10. Naked Blade
11. D.W.O.M.M.
12. Toil and Trouble
