Home Is Where - Hunting Season

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Wax Bodega

“Home Is Where broke out making athletic, anthemic hardcore, and have only limbered up with time…. an album that feels like embarking on a freewheeling road trip while your companion waves a machete out the window.” – Pitchfork

“Hunting Season looks like fifth wave emo’s answer to Meat Puppets II; it’s a swampy, noisy, country/punk crossover that suits today’s DIY scene in the same delightfully strange way that that album suited the SST era… in a time when artists are going country left and right, Home Is Where’s oddball approach to the genre is like pretty much nothing else.” – BrooklynVegan

Home Is Where has announced a headlining fall tour supporting their anticipated new album, Hunting Season, due out this Friday (May 23rd) via Wax Bodega. The 25-date tour sees the band of Bea MacDonald (vocals, multi-instrumentalist – she/her), Tilley Komorny (guitar, vocals – she/her), Connor O’Brien (bass – he/they), and Josiah Gardella (drums – he/him) playing their biggest venues to date. Beginning on September 26th in Grand Rapids, MI, the cross country trek includes shows at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom on October 5th and Los Angeles’ The Echoplex on November 12th. The band has also partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold is donated to the Campaign for Southern Equality, and tickets go on-sale this Friday, May 23rd at 10am local time; see the full dates HERE and contact us with any requests!

Following the release of Hunting Season, Home Is Where are among several headlining acts of Washington DC’s new Liberation Weekend Festival–a trans rights festival where all proceeds beyond event expenses will go to Gender Liberation Movement to help fund and support future rallies, demonstrations, and direct actions in protest of anti-trans policymaking and business activity. The band plays Night 1 at The Black Cat on May 30 th, which includes sets by Pinkshift, The Ophelias, and more.

Produced by Jack Shirley (Jeff Rosenstock, Joyce Manor, Deafheaven) at Atomic Garden in Oakland, CA, Home Is Where’s third full-length and follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2023 LP, the whaler, finds the band fully embracing their broad and unexpected influences, like Bob Dylan and 70s country music, to create its bold sound. Album singles include “milk & diesel” and “migration patterns,” which earned praise and support from Pitchfork, Alternative Press (Best Songs of the Week), Stereogum, Guitar World (Best of April), Paste (Best Songs of the Week), Consequence (Best Songs of the Week), Brooklyn Vegan (Favorite Songs of the Week), The Needle Drop, Uproxx’s Indiecast, and more. Hunting Season is available for pre-order HERE.

MacDonald wanted to write The Great American Song. Hunting Season has 13 of these, each one detailing the dying thoughts of an Elvis impersonator consumed by fumes and flames in a car wreck. To be clear, these songs are not all sung from the perspective of the same dying Elvis impersonator, but from 13 different Elvis impersonators, all dying in a thirteen-car pileup. An unlucky number of imitation Elvises, each grasping at their final scraps of life as they all burn—stuck in separate cars, but together in wreckage and in death. What could be more American than that?

In the lead up to the writing and recording sessions for Hunting Season, the band spent a lot of time on the road—both together and apart–on cross-country moves. Folk icons like Neil Young, Alan Jackson, and Gram Parsons were on heavy rotation in their tour van, as was Dylan, whose famous description of Blonde on Blonde as “Thin Wild Mercury Music” inspired MacDonald in defining the new album’s sound. Tracks like “Shenandoah” and “Milk & Diesel” best demonstrate this sonic shift: untamed, malleable, and coming and going all at once. (continue reading full bio on our DISCO)