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SUNSET KIDS ARRIVES FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 VIA WICKED COOL/THE ORCHARD/VELVET ELK

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The upcoming tour celebrates Malin’s hugely anticipated new , SUNSET KIDS, due Friday, August 30 via Wicked Cool/The Orchard/Velvet Elk; pre-orders are available now HERE. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner and engineered by the late David Bianco (Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, AC/DC) and Geoff Sanoff (Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, Fountains of Wayne), the album is heralded by the stellar first single, “Room 13 (Feat. Lucinda Williams),” streaming now HERE. The track – one of two songs on SUNSET KIDS co-written by Williams – had its exclusive world premiere via Rolling Stone, which simply raved, “With jangly guitars and a moody vibe, ‘Room 13’ is peak Malin.”

SUNSET KIDS – which marks Malin’s first new LP since 2015’s OUTSIDERS – further includes the remarkable Malin/Williams duet, “Dead On,” along with guest appearances from Joseph Arthur on three tracks and newly arranged versions of songs from his classic 2010 LP with the St. Marks Social, . Additional highlights include “Strangers and Thieves” co-written by and featuring vocals from ’s .

Hailed by the Times of London for “(writing) vivid songs with killer tunes and (singing) them with scary conviction,” Malin first met Williams in the early 2000s at a jazz club in NYC’s West Village. A fast friendship ensued, though it wasn’t until 2017, when Williams invited Malin to Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl to see her open what would be the final Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers concert, that talk of her producing the album first took shape. Recorded in studios on both coasts during breaks in both artists’ schedules, SUNSET KIDS proves Malin’s most big-hearted and expansive collection to date, deeply informed by a number of people lost during the making of the LP, among them its very own engineer David Bianco as well as Main’s lifelong friend and bandmate, , his father, and other dreamers.

“From the early frontier days of hardcore in to all the and singer/songwriter touring,” says Malin, “it’s all been about survival and reinvention. I wanted to make an open-sounding record with the space to tell these stories. I like to write about characters and people I meet along the way. The dreamers, schemers, hustlers, romantics, lovers, leavers and believers.”

JESSE MALIN SUNSET KIDS (Wicked Cool/The Orchard/Velvet Elk) Street Date: Friday, August 30

Tracklisting: 1. Meet Me At The End Of The World Again 2. Room 13 3. When You’re Young 4. Chemical Heart 5. Promises 6. Shining Down 7. Shane 8. Strangers and Thieves 9. Revelations 10. Gray Skies Look So Blue 11. Do You Really Wanna Know 12. Friends in Florida 13. Dead On 14. My Little Life

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