LISTEN AND WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘COCAINE AND LEXAPRO’ FT. KEVIN DEVINE AND STREAM ‘BERLIN’ FT. TIGERS JAW.

‘Cocaine And Lexapro’ is the heart-wrenching answer to ‘Beer & Nyquil (Hold It Together)’ off of 2018’s Schmaltz. It addresses all the same fears of feeling stuck and frustrations about the non-linearity of life, but through a newer, matured lens. “I’ve been trying to work with Kevin for a while now” shares frontman and guitarist Dylan Slocum. “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.” 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.”

The EP stands apart as its own self-contained world, a cul-de-sac of sorts in the band’s evolving career. There’s a looseness and honesty in the songs that could only come from having no plan, just an acoustic guitar, a mic, and the willingness to see where things might go. It’s an intermission, yes – but one that ended up meaning a lot more than expected. It serves as the follow-up to the band’s 2025 ‘No Joy Sessions’ and marks their first new music since 2023’s ‘No Joy’. The EP can be described best as a reflective pause, as group both pull from their past and look ahead to the uncertain future. 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.

‘A Brief Intermission In The Flattening Of Time’ Tracklisting:

Cocaine And Lexapro ft. Kevin Devine
Berlin ft. Tiger’s Jaw
Heaven Head ft. Illuminati Hotties
Lifers Too ft. The Wonder Years

The band just kicked off an extensive run of European and UK shows, beginning with a headline tour featuring support from The Dirty Nil, Sincere Engineer, Kali Masi. On October 18, 19, and 20, Spanish Love Songs will join the traveling 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

Photo credit: Hannah Gray Hall