POST ANIMAL & Joe Keery Share New Song/Video For "What's A Good Life"
POST ANIMAL
SHARES NEW SONG & MUSIC VIDEO FOR “WHAT’S A GOOD LIFE”
NEW ALBUM IRON, MADE WITH JOE KEERY, OUT JULY 25
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ON-SALE NOW, SUPPORTING DJO ON US/EU/UK TOUR NOW
Post Animal will release IRON, their new album – and first album reunited with original band member Djo / Joe Keery in 7+ years - next month. Today the band teases the record with another amazing single, “What’s A Good Life,” alongside a video featuring all five members of Post Animal and Keery, which is fitting as all six of them take turns on vocals for this track. Listen to “What’s A Good Life” now HERE, which follows the previously-released album lead single “Last Goodbye” and "Pie In The Sky".
The music video also features the Omaha Hell Hounds, Nebraska’s premier armored combat team, who invited the guys to their gym while they passed through town. On “What’s A Good Life,” the Hell Hounds give a glimpse into what it’s like to be on their team, performing combat with real weapons, but they also give back to their community hosting charity fundraisers for local non-profits. The band said, “They shifted their weekly strength training plans to accommodate our visit. Great people, real friends, making sure to do what they love to do.”
Post Animal just wrapped a fully sold-out U.S. tour with their bandmate Djo, which will continue throughout North America & UK/EU this year. Post Animal will also go on a five-piece headline headline tour. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE.
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When Post Animal began recording IRON, it was the first time all six original members were in the studio together for nearly a decade. In 2017, Joe Keery left the band to focus on acting as Stranger Things began to take off, and has since made music under the moniker Djo. Three band members also relocated away from Chicago, while they all explored other projects and toured with other friends. But in 2024, the six musicians started right back up at the beginning, rediscovering that uncompromising closeness of connection they all shared. The product of a few straight weeks together in the middle of the woods in Indiana, IRON not only finds Post Animal reunited with Keery, but is the embodiment of their renewed and ironclad connection.
IRON will be released on July 25th. With each band member bringing in song ideas, and taking turns on lead vocals, the entire record was written and produced by the five members of Post Animal and Keery. It was engineered by Dalton Allison & Charles Glanders, and mixed by DJO co-producer Adam Thein & Allison. “This record felt like a revitalization of our friendships and our band,” Hirshland says. “We always work collaboratively, but it’s amazing how reintroducing Joe into the mix brought back that dynamic from 2017.”
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TRACK LIST
01 Malcolm’s Cooking
02 Last Goodbye
03 Maybe You Have To
04 Setting Sun
07 Main Menu
08 Dorien Kregg
09 Common Denominator
10 Iron
TOUR DATES
September 30 - Asheville Yards Amphitheater - Asheville, NC ** ** SOLD OUT
October 1 - Coca-Cola Roxy - Atlanta, GA ** ** SOLD OUT
October 2 - The Pinnacle - Nashville, TN ** ** SOLD OUT
Oct 5 - White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX **
October 7 - Grinders KC - Kansas City, MO ** ** SOLD OUT
Oct 9 - The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory - Irving, TX**
October 13 - The Criterion - Oklahoma City, OK ** ** SOLD OUT
October 15 - Arizona Financial Theatre - Phoenix, AZ ** ** SOLD OUT
October 17 - Channel 24 - Sacramento, CA ** ** SOLD OUT
October 18 - The Greek Theatre - Berkeley, CA ** LOW TICKET WARNING
October 20 - The Greek Theatre - Los Angeles, CA ** ** SOLD OUT
October 21 - The Greek Theatre - Los Angeles, CA ** LOW TICKET WARNING
November 1 - Detroit, MI - El Club
November 2 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison - SOLD OUT
November 4 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
November 5- Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
November 7 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
November 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
November 10 - Washington, DC - DC9 Nightclub
November 11 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room
November 13 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
November 14 - Nashville, TN - Third Man Records (Blue Room)
November 15 - Saint Louis, MO - Off Broadway Nightclub
November 17 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
November 18 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
December 3 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
December 5 - Dallas, TX - Dada
December 6 - Austin, TX - The Parish
December 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
December 10 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
December 12 - Portland, OR - Polaris Hall
December 13 - Seattle, WA - Neumos (Barboza)
December 15 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
December 17 - Denver, Co - Bluebird Theater
** supporting Djo
More on Post Animal & IRON:
After the release of 2022’s sublime Love Gibberish LP, Post Animal found themselves sunk deeper into their work than ever before. That record was their first released independently, with all the extra effort that entails. They also toured extensively, both on their own and with UK psych band Temples. By the time things started settling down, Post Animal was scattered to the wind. Guitarist Javi Reyes and drummer Wesley Toledo dropped back home to Chicago, while guitarist Matt Williams moved to Los Angeles, bassist Dalton Allison decamped for Ithaca, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Hirshland relocated to Brooklyn. “There was some burnout happening,” Allison says. “We were ruthlessly fighting and grinding.”
But then Keery showed up at a New York tour stop, and the idea was hatched that they cut another record—all six original band members together again, for the first time since 2017. “When we made When I Think of You in a Castle, that was near the start of Stranger Things,” Keery recalls. “And now with it kind of coming to an end in my own life, we all felt it'd be great to do something like that again, to go somewhere and be isolated and work on music together. It was a labor of love.” A big part of that process was focusing on the experience rather than putting pressure on an outcome. “We all agreed that even if we went and just hung out, we’d be happy with it,” Toledo says. “We're just heartfelt, sentimental, and emotional, but there was a real positivity and optimism among us.”
They would set up camp at the Indiana home of their friends Malcolm Brown and Charles Glanders, an A-frame tucked into some woodlands with massive windows for views of the fall foliage. In addition to the lush surroundings, the band’s hosts pitched in: Glanders engineered the tracks with Allison, while Brown inspired via chef-caliber meals. “We got back to our roots, hanging out and writing music without the expectations or pressure,” Hirshland says. Keery agrees, noting both how close they’ve remained and also much has changed since their last work together. "We're all still such great friends, but now everybody has a lot more experience under their belts," he says. "I was just appreciative to be spending this time, knowing we might not get another chance to do this the way we're doing it right now. The record reflects that enjoyment, and you can feel the fun."
Even when IRON touches on heavy themes, Post Animal finds fluidity and strength in their compositions—a clear result of sharing so much time together. Members of the group would come and go from the home studio, a free-flowing stream of ideas. “This is the easiest experience I’ve had making an album,” Williams says. Reyes agrees, noting that ease comes from understanding—and growing from—your past: “It’s a return to ourselves, but down the road, feeling better than we ever have.”
Throughout the album, Post Animal use that honed edge to push and pull at genre threads, imbuing some synthpop here and some folk there, vintage radio rock on one track and twitchy psychedelia on the next. Like the six sides of a die, the members of Post Animal and Keery each brought their own energy and style into an interconnected whole. As Hirshland explains it: “This is an exploration of being alive and in this group of friends.”
IRON puts the listener directly into the room with the band, freewheeling and experimental yet played with precision. That atmosphere should be palpable as the band hits the road with Keery’s Djo project, Toledo and Reyes pulling double duty as well by working in his backing band—the whole group getting to spend even more time together. “We’re having fun making things that we’re proud of. It’s a more mature period for us as collaborators and as friends,” Reyes says. “We’re all vibing with each other creatively, enjoying the momentum and our friendship.” Allison vehemently agrees: “All of these creative forces coming together, it was like iron sharpening iron,” he says. “When we’re in proximity with one another, we make each other better.”
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