‘Why Would I Watch’ – the highly anticipated new album from Hot Mulligan is officially out today. It can now be streamed in full at the following link: https://lnk.to/HMwhywouldiwatch. Additionally, the band will release a new music video for the song “No Shoes In The Coffee Shop (Or Socks)”, which can be seen on YouTube at 5pm BST HERE or by clicking the image below. 
“’No Shoes” is about that “physical recoil” level of regret you feel when you think about the past,” explains vocalist Tades Sanville on the song. “Like when you didn’t stand up for a friend, or said something you didn’t mean, or when you were the sole reason that plan was ruined. I don’t wanna buy the camera because I don’t want to look at my past. It keeps me up, and makes me feel worse about myself. So why would I watch?” Before the album’s release, Hot Mulligan shared the singles and music videos for “Shhh! Golf Is On” and “Gans Media Retro Games”. Produced by longtime collaborator Brett Romnes, ‘Why Would I Watch’ is Hot Mulligan at their loudest, their poppiest, and, ultimately, their most poignant: twinkly Midwestern emo guitars and mathy, synthy-heavy rhythms, Tades Sanville’s sandpaper vocals and indelible melodies. This lightning-in-a-bottle kinetic energy is encompassed on the aforementioned first single and in true Hot Mulligan fashion, a closer listen to the lyrics reveal an intense honesty that could get written off if you don’t pay attention. Therein lies the true magic of Hot Mulligan, the push and pull of puns and pathos that might seem diametrically opposed at first but actually intersect to perfectly encapsulate life in a heavy, ADD-addled world. The band don’t consider these groundbreaking topics, opting for more measured and at times resigned realism to deal with the melancholia and malaise of life’s ups and downs. “No one who’s depressed is crying all the time,” Sanville says. “The media likes to portray deep depression as sadness, but most of the time it’s indifference. That works its way into alternative comedy and shitposting. The two cultures collide perfectly. The titles are the shitposts and the songs are what everyone in this position actually feels.” ‘Why Would I Watch’ tracklisting Shouldn’t Have a Leg Hole But I Do It’s a Family Movie She Hates Her Dad And I Smoke This Song is Called it’s Called What’s it Called No Shoes in the Coffee Shop (Or Socks) Christ Alive My Toe Dammit Hurts Betty Cock Party 2 (Better Than The First) Shhhh! Golf is On Gans Media Retro Games Smahccked My Head Awf John “The Rock” Cena, Can You Smell What the Undertaker Listen to ‘Why Would I Watch’ Here: https://lnk.to/HMwhywouldiwatch Hot Mulligan recently announced an Autumn tour with Spanish Love Songs. The tour will see the bands play across the UK for seven shows before heading over to Europe. Full dates below: HOT MULLIGAN with SPANISH LOVE SONGS 1st September – Stylus, Leeds 2nd September – Academy 2, Manchester 3rd September – The Garage, Glasgow 5th September – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 6th September – SWX, Bristol 7th September – Electric Ballroom, London 8th September – o2 Academy 2, Birmingham Tickets On Sale Now Since forming in Lansing, Michigan, in 2014, the college friends – vocalist Tades Sanville, guitarists Chris Freeman and Ryan Malicsi and drummer Brandon Blakeley – have ascended from basements to buzz band on the back of two beloved albums, 2018’s Pilot and 2020’s ‘you’ll be fine’. Now, bolstered by 140 million Spotify streams, a sold-out nationwide headlining tour, support slots for the likes of The Wonder Years and New Found Glory and headlines in Alternative Press and Rock Sound, the band’s third cements their evolution as one the most versatile and profoundly moving bands in the underground. Listen to ‘Why Would I Watch’ Here: https://lnk.to/HMwhywouldiwatch | 
