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The Technicolors Announce Album ‘Heavy Pulp’

The Technicolors are back with their first new music in four years. Their new album, ‘Heavy Pulp,’ is due out August 29th via SoundOn.

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1 year ago

05/16/2025

Aaron Willschick

The Technicolors, photo by Lupe Bustos

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American rock staple The Technicolors have announced their sonically massive, brooding new album, Heavy Pulp, will be released on August 29th via SoundOn. Their first album since 2021, their time away was less of a hiatus and more of a chance to create very deliberately. For as commanding and driving as the album is, the band has chosen to announce the new LP with a gentler moment, with the aptly named “Softcore.”

Sean Silverman shares:

“‘Softcore’ was one of the first ideas Brennan (Smiley) and I developed for the record. We were still in the exploratory phase of the album, and this one seemed to emerge out of the ether. This came after a season where we hadn’t been in the same space together for a while. It felt like discovering a song that had always been there, which, even as I write this, feels a bit trite, but it’s true. It was familiar, yet sonically unexplored for us—a tender moment after a more aggressive slate of tunes. It’s my personal favourite on Heavy Pulp.”

Heavy Pulp was produced by Grammy-nominated Robert Adam Stevenson (Queens of the Stone Age, The Kills) and features Broncho’s Nathan Price on drums. The Technicolors’ Brennan Smiley will be out on the road playing guitar in Broncho on their tour this summer.

Following their last album, Cinema Sublimina, The Technicolors needed a moment to take a breath. Spending over a decade out on the road and constantly trying to put out enough music to keep other people happy, the band decided to slow down in order to not cut important corners. During this period of “dormancy,” the band’s catalogue shot to new heights, priming them for their biggest chapter yet. After putting their heads down in a time where bedroom pop was being favoured, the band got to work and now reemerges in a space where being a rock band feels viable again.

Writing Heavy Pulp over the last two years, The Technicolors wanted to physically be in the room with the creatives they were working with. Ahead of the album’s August 29th release date, they have so far released the heavily muddied “Posh Spice” along with an official video.