As if we we’re already being treated by Spanish Love Songs with their upcoming Common Threads tour, they’ve only gone and announced new music. After the gorgeous album that was ‘No Joy’ our ears are already perked and on standby for their forthcoming EP ‘A Brief Intermission In The Flattening Of Time’.
While we will be waiting just over a month until its release via Pure Noise Records on 21st November 2025, the band haven’t left us completely high and dry. There is a taste of what to come with two new singles, “Cocaine and Lexapro” ft Kevin Devine, and “Berlin” ft Tigers Jaw.
Digging a little deeper, “Cocaine and Lexapro” is the heart-wrenching answer to “Beer & Nyquil (Hold It Together)” from 2018’s Schmaltz. Addressing the same fear of feeling stuck, as well as the frustrations of lifes non-linear vibe; all through a new and matured lens.
Talking on the releases, frontman and guitarist Dylan Slocum shared,
“I’ve been trying to work with Kevin for a while now. We have a good number of mutual friends but had never met up until this. The reasoning was simple — our band doesn’t exist without Kevin Devine, so when he agreed to sing on a song, he got to sing on a song. He took what I had demoed as an angry, contrarian second verse and turned it into something delicate and full of pathos. It absolutely floored me the first time I heard his vocal tracks dropped in.”
On this double announcement release, second offering “Berlin” is what Slocum calls “a spy movie of a love song.” A moody, darkly romantic track, it tells the tale of a partner whose questionable past keeps coming back to haunt the both of you.
“Tigers Jaw is another band that we love dearly and had somehow never met despite having friends in common,” explains Slocum. “When we announced the Common Thread tour this year and saw they were on the bill, we figured we’d take a shot and asked if they’d be interested to sing on our weird song. At first, we thought only Ben was tracking, but when we received the track back and heard Brianna doing the harmonies we absolutely lost our mind. It’s the Tigers Jaw thing we love on an SLS song. That feeling is one of the core reasons we even toyed with the idea of having features, and in that moment made the entire experiment worth it.”
A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time acts as the follow-up to the 2025 No Joy Sessions and celebrates their first new music since 2023. Acting as a reflective pause and pulling from both their past and looking ahead to an an uncertain future, there’s so much to look forward to. From spontaneous studio sessions with producer Arun Bali and shaped by collaborations with friends, each track is a raw, emotionally charged sonic snapshot that grapples with our own messy existences.
The band just kicked off an extensive and much anticipated run of European and UK shows. Starting things off with a headline tour. Featuring support from The Dirty Nil, Sincere Engineer, and Kali Masi. On October 18, 19, and 20, Spanish Love Songs will join the travelling Common Thread festival before resuming their headlining dates. They’ll wrap up the year with two additional Common Thread performances, wrapping on October 26 in Leeds, UK. A complete list of tour dates is available below, and tickets can be purchased at spanishlovesongs.com.
Spanish Love Songs Tour Dates
October 9 – Vienna, AT – Szene
October 10 – Stuttgart, DE – Club Cann
October 11 – Schweinfurt, DE – Stattbahnhof
October 12 – Milan, IT – Legend Club
October 14 – Zurich, CH – Dynamo
October 15 – Wiesbaden, DE – Kesselhaus
October 16 – Hamburg, DE – Knust
October 18 – Oberhausen, DE – Turbeninhalle *
October 19 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique *
October 20 – Haarlem, NL – Patronaat *
October 22 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute 2
October 23 – Manchester, UK – New Century Hall
October 24 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
October 25 – London, UK – Roundhouse *
October 26 – Leeds, UK – Leeds University Union *
* Common Thread Tour with Tigers Jaw
