fanclubwallet – Living While Dying
fanclubwallet, the indie-pop songwriting project of Hannah Judge, announces their sophomore album Living While Dying, out October 24 via Lauren Records.
Alongside the announcement, the band releases new single/video, “New Distraction,” out today.
Written during her ongoing experience with chronic illness, “New Distraction” captures the restless search for something – anything – to break the monotony. “‘Cmon, I’m waiting, for some kind of new distraction’ was a mantra circling my brain these last couple years,” says Judge. “This song came out of nowhere for me, though. I was too anxious to write a solo guitar lick for this but the band encouraged me, and it became one of my favourite parts. It reminds me of a Coldplay B-Side.”
On Living While Dying, the question of mortality looms large. Paradoxically, it’s also a record of pristine, sun-drenched pop: Shania Twain with a Casio. The album inhabits a conceptual world of ghosts, haunted houses, the Black Lodge of Twin Peaks, and the bleakness of Fargo – spaces of liminality, isolation, and dread. But through all that darkness shines something human and deeply moving.
Judge began writing Living While Dying during a period of intense solitude and illness, managing Crohn’s disease. “I was thinking about dying a lot,” she says. “It felt like I was stuck. Alive, but in freefall.” Illness became its own kind of limbo. A later surgery brought a period of relief – a sudden return to hope and joy – only for illness to return again. The album captures all three phases: despair, recovery, and the fragility of both.
Tour Dates (w/ TOLEDO)
- November 5 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
- November 6 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café
- November 7 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
- November 9 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
- November 11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
- November 13 – Seattle, WA @ The Sunset Tavern
- November 14 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
- November 16 – San Francisco, CA @ 4 Star Theater
- November 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Moroccan Lounge
- November 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit Live
- November 22 – Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage
- November 23 – Dallas, TX @ Dada Dallas
- Nov 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Purgatory
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