Celebrated as one of Alternative rock’s most important trailblazers, Louise Post – of seminal band Veruca Salt – will be releasing her first solo album, entitled Sleepwalker, on June 2 on El Camino Media.
Produced by Matt Drenik (Lions, Battleme), Sleepwalker is a classic combination of Post’s ability to weave intricate lyrical tapestries with undeniable, hook-heavy melodies. The album’s first song, a perfect reverie of guitar haze called “Guilty,” is available to hear now. Louise has also announced a 19-date headlining tour in support of the album.
For the past three decades, Louise Post has been the co-frontwoman of the celebrated act Veruca Salt, whose massive hit singles like “Seether” and “Volcano Girls” are still in regular rotation on rock radio. Although Veruca Salt has consistently released music with Post as the sole constant member, during the pandemic she started writing a collection of songs that felt more personal and less like the follow-up to Veruca Salt’s 2015 return-to-form, Ghost Notes. “Out of nowhere, these songs started flowing out of me and almost appeared to be writing themselves,” Post explains, adding that many of these melodies came to her during the transitive state between sleep and consciousness known as hypnagogia.
“I have always identified as a sleepwalker,” Post says of the album’s title. “I slept-walked around my house routinely when I was a child, and even down the street. I believe in hindsight it was me trying to process what was going on in my home with my parents’ troubled marriage. As far as I know, I stopped sleepwalking after the divorce when I was eight, but it has always been a part of me that I feel protective of, a little girl who I feel sad for,” she continues, adding that sleep has also served as her gateway to creativity.
During these inspired solitary sessions, Post eventually wrote three albums worth of material and was able to edit it down to this collection of eleven songs with help from producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Drenik (Lions, Battleme). She helmed recording guitar, bass and piano herself, asking a rotating cast of other musicians to help her fill out the sound and collectively build the sonic textures that she felt the songs needed.
Upcoming Louise Post Tour Dates
6/12 – Cobalt – Vancouver, BC
6/13 – Sunset – Seattle, WA
6/14 – MS Studios – Portland, OR
6/15 – Treefort Music Hall – Boise, ID
6/17 – Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO
6/19 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX
6/20 – Parish – Austin, TX
6/23 – Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
6/25 – Casbah – San Diego, CA
7/10 – Aisle 5 – Atlanta, GA
7/11 – Pinhook – Raleigh, NC
7/13 – Foundry – Philadelphia, PA
7/14 – Union Stage – Washington, DC
7/15 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
7/17 – Bar Le Ritz – Montreal, QC
7/18 – The Garrison – Toronto, ON
7/20 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
7/21 – Turf Club – Minneapolis, MN
7/22 – Ready Room – St. Louis, MO
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