Skylar Spence shares new single “Superman”

Skylar Spence shares Ryan Hemsworth's remix of his new single "Superman". Skylar Spence's new album 'Prom King' out September 25th

This fall Skylar Spence will release his forthcoming LP Prom King. After last week’s release of Ryan Hemsworth’s remix of Skylar’s summer anthem “Can’t You See”, he is back today to share new single “I Can’t Be Your Superman”. Speaking about the track, Skylar said the song is about “a friend of mine who was living very dangerously for a while. Around the time I wrote the song, I realized I was an enabler of this behavior by not acknowledging the problem, but things soured as soon as I opened my mouth about it.”

The track’s release also comes in conjunction with the launch of skylarspence.com and the announcement that Skylar Spence will be playing a record release show for his forthcoming Prom King on September 25th at Palisades in Brooklyn alongside longtime cohort Ricky Eat Acid. Shortly after the record release show, Skylar will embark on his US fall tour, joined on the West Coast by Kero Kero Bonito.

When Ryan DeRobertis announced the name change of his project from Saint Pepsi to Skylar Spence, there was no indication of any stylistic departure, though the change arrived with a musical shift toward faster tempos and more pristine production. Whereas Saint Pepsi had often used decades-old boogie, disco, and new wave as grist for the sampling mill, Skylar Spence is intent on trafficking more overtly in those genre aesthetics through his own production techniques and vocal contributions. With Prom King, DeRobertis reorients his music for his new full-band live act and winds up with an album full of tight and enveloping dance tunes.

Working with Carpark Records “gave me the confidence to ‘go big’ with the new material: to write pop songs with universal messages in the sonic wrapping paper that I’ve grown accustomed to,” DeRobertis says. “A few songs on Prom King are about specific events in my life-a party where I got too messed up, watching a friend’s life spiral out of control and trying to help-but I tried hard not to be too autobiographical because I want my music to unite, above all else. I’m much more interested in connecting with the listener than mystifying my personality.”

Tour Dates
09/25 Brooklyn, NY – Palisades (Prom King Record Release show) ^
09/25-27 Boston, MA – Boston Calling
10/14 Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club*
10/15 Seattle, WA – Chop Suey*
10/16 Portland, OR – Holocene*
10/17-18 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Music Festival
10/22 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo*
10/23 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar*
10/24 Santa Ana, CA – Beach Goth Festival
10/25 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
10/26 Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture
10/27 Albuquerque, NM – Stereo Bar
10/28 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
10/29 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
10/30 Dallas, TX – Cambridge Room
10/31 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Jr.
11/02 Norman, OK – Opolis
11/03 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
11/04 Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern
11/15 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
11/17 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
11/18 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
11/19 Orlando, FL – The Social
11/20 Miami, FL – Bardot
11/21-22 Mexico City, Mexico – Corona Capital Festival

^ w/ Ricky Eat Acid, Peter Berkman, Sharpless
* = w/ Kero Kero Bonito

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