ANDY SHAUF RELEASES THE PARTY (10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) + THE AFTERPARTY EP TODAY

LISTEN TO PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD TRACK “ANGELA THE TRAVELLER”

ANDY SHAUF’S THE PARTY (10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) + THE AFTERPARTY EP
OUT TODAY VIA ARTS & CRAFTS 

BUY / STREAM THE PARTY (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) HERE

“‘The Party’ is definitely worth celebrating.” - Uncut

“A folk record so lush it feels as though Shauf made a feature film, providing settings, characters and colour to fill out a full motion picture with just 10 songs. Dipping into '60s pop melodies, it’s easy to see yourself slow dancing to ‘The Party’ while closing out your own messy gathering.” - CBC Music

“The result recalls classic pop songwriters in the vein of Harry Nilsson or Randy Newman, coupled with the plainspoken timbre of a Paul Simon, albeit with a laconic Canadian drawl. Shauf also possesses a keen, emotive ear for complex arrangements and lavish orchestrations.” - NPR Music 

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A breakout album upon its debut in 2016, Andy Shauf is releasing The Party (10th Anniversary Edition) today, a special double vinyl piece with nine additional tracks accompanying the original studio version, including three never-before-released songs plus alternate cuts and demo recordings. This bonus material is also out now digitally as a collection of songs called the afterparty.

BUY / STREAM THE PARTY (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) HERE

With The Party Shauf masterfully creates a cast of memorable and unique characters. They show up “Early to the Party,” reveal secrets (“To You”) or try to reveal nothing (“The Magician”). In “a city the size of a dinner plate,” everyone knew the guy who keeled over after smoking what he promised would be his last pack of cigarettes (“Alexander All Alone”). There’s the girl dancing by herself in the middle of the room, with the “Eyes of Them All” upon her. One moment you’re dancing with someone who bears an uncanny resemblance to your ex (“Martha Sways”) and later slagging your best friend as a way of endearing yourself to his recently dumped ex (“Quite Like You”). All of this is set to ornate arrangements of fuzzed-out guitars, string sections, clarinets and dreamy synths; all draped over delicate piano, acoustic guitars and rainy-day drums. 

“The Party didn’t happen because I knew what I was doing, it happened because I kept making mistakes,” Shauf explained when asked to reflect on the making of this seminal album. “[It was] four years of trying and trying again until eventually the happy accidents added up to something cohesive. It was a process of learning, like anything is. If I’d taken the same revisionist approach to my real life, maybe the lost period wouldn’t have stretched out for so long. Mistakes made in songs led to new arrangements and new approaches, mistakes in life led to more and more confusion and hurt. Thankfully life has allowed me the time to learn that I was simply lucky to have been given the chance to explore at all.” Read his essay in full at andyshauf.com.  

LISTEN TO PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD TRACK “ANGELA THE TRAVELLER”

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THE PARTY TRACKLIST
1. The Magician
2. Early to the Party
3. Twist Your Ankle
4. Quite Like You
5. Begin Again
6. The Worst in You
7. To You
8. Eyes of Them All
9. Alexander All Alone
10. Martha Sways 

the afterparty EP TRACKLIST
1. the magician (demo)
2. angela the traveller
3. begin again (v2)
4. eyes of them all (demo)
5. the interrupter 
6. losing
7. twist your ankle (demo)
8. my brother jeremy (demo)
9. martha sways (v2)
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ANDY SHAUF ANNOUNCES THE PARTY (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION), SHARES UNRELEASED TRACKS

ANDY SHAUF ANNOUNCES THE PARTY (10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
+ the afterparty EP

OUT OCTOBER 16, 2026 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS 

LISTEN / SHARE “LOSING” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LOSING” HERE

PRE-ORDER THE PARTY (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) HERE

Photo Credit: Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Originally released in the spring of 2016, ten years have passed since the arrival of singer-songwriter Andy Shauf’s seminal album The Party. To commemorate a decade of these classic, lived-in songs, The Party (10th Anniversary Edition) will be released on October 16 on double vinyl with nine additional tracks accompanying the original studio version, including three never-before-released songs plus alternate cuts and demo recordings. The bonus material will be made available as a digital release titled the afterparty, also due October 16.

‘I know it's a fight / and I know that I’m losing’ Shauf sullenly ponders on “losing,” one of the three previously unreleased tracks. Coming home from the party, the song’s narrator has arrived at their partner’s place a little too drunk a few too many times. 

LISTEN / SHARE “LOSING” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LOSING” HERE

In a new essay reflecting on this period of his life, Shauf looks back with a clarity he didn’t have at the time:

“The Party was written when I was in my mid-twenties and was released a few days before I turned twenty-nine. This time feels like a lost period for me. I was on the road in North America and Europe consistently, ‘partying’ a lot, letting alcohol lead me to experiences I thought necessary for having something to write about. My dream of becoming a touring musician and recording artist was starting to play out, but I avoided acknowledging that reality out of fear that it would vanish. It’s clearer now that this avoidance more so gave me an inability to see myself as the destructive force at the center of the chaos beginning to surround me.

“The Party didn’t happen because I knew what I was doing, it happened because I kept making mistakes. Four years of trying and trying again until eventually the happy accidents added up to something cohesive. It was a process of learning, like anything is. If I’d taken the same revisionist approach to my real life, maybe the lost period wouldn’t have stretched out for so long. Mistakes made in songs led to new arrangements and new approaches, mistakes in life led to more and more confusion and hurt. Thankfully life has allowed me the time to learn that I was simply lucky to have been given the chance to explore at all.” Read the essay in full at andyshauf.com. 

With The Party Shauf masterfully creates a cast of memorable and unique characters. They show up “Early to the Party,” reveal secrets (“To You”) or try to reveal nothing (“The Magician”). In ‘a city the size of a dinner plate,’ everyone knew the guy who keeled over after smoking what he promised would be his last pack of cigarettes (“Alexander All Alone”). There’s the girl dancing by herself in the middle of the room, with the “Eyes of Them All” upon her. One moment you’re dancing with someone who bears an uncanny resemblance to your ex (“Martha Sways”) and later slagging your best friend as a way of endearing yourself to his recently dumped ex (“Quite Like You”). All of this is set to ornate arrangements of fuzzed-out guitars, string sections, clarinets and dreamy synths; all draped over delicate piano, acoustic guitars and rainy-day drums.

PRAISE FOR THE PARTY
“The Party is definitely worth celebrating.” - Uncut

“A folk record so lush it feels as though Shauf made a feature film, providing settings, characters and colour to fill out a full motion picture with just 10 songs. Dipping into '60s pop melodies, it’s easy to see yourself slow dancing to ‘The Party’ while closing out your own messy gathering.” - CBC Music

“The result recalls classic pop songwriters in the vein of Harry Nilsson or Randy Newman, coupled with the plainspoken timbre of a Paul Simon, albeit with a laconic Canadian drawl. Shauf also possesses a keen, emotive ear for complex arrangements and lavish orchestrations.” - NPR Music

“At times the budget grandeur posits Shauf as a sort of indie Burt Bacharach: don’t be fooled by the chintzy synths and general thrift-store appearance. One track, “Martha Sways”, injects notes of dissonance – off-kilter violins, random stabs of piano – that will be familiar to fans of Big Star’s Sister Lovers. Then again, a lot of these songs have the warm, easy-listening appeal of the hippest mainstream 70s songwriters, up to and including Nilsson, while reclaiming aspects of the cheesiest.” - The Guardian

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THE PARTY (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
1. The Magician
2. Early to the Party
3. Twist Your Ankle
4. Quite Like You
5. Begin Again
6. The Worst in You
7. To You
8. Eyes of Them All
9. Alexander All Alone
10. Martha Sways

1. the magician (demo)
2. angela the traveller
3. begin again (v2)
4. eyes of them all (demo)
5. the interrupter
6. losing
7. twist your ankle (demo)
8. my brother jeremy (demo)
9. martha sways (v2)

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ANDY SHAUF RELEASES VIDEO FOR “HALLOWEEN STORE”, ANNOUNCES SOLO TOUR

ANDY SHAUF SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “HALLOWEEN STORE” FROM NORM, OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

WATCH / SHARE “HALLOWEEN STORE” HERE

SOLO TOUR OF INTIMATE VENUES BEGINS MARCH 2024

BUY / STREAM NORM HERE

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Today, Andy Shauf presents a music video for “Halloween Store” — one of “the best two songs on [Norm]…grounded by acoustic guitar but [featuring] lush instrumental breaks and repeating hooks” (Variety) – and announces a 2024 solo tour. In an enlightening interview with Stereogum in which he shared the story behind every song on the album, Shauf revealed “Halloween Store” was one of the first written for Norm, mulled over and reworked from when he envisioned it as a disco record. “It’s definitely a Halloween story,” he said, “I was hoping to put it out around Halloween, but I missed deadlines.” Now, with Halloween just around the corner, Shauf shines a flashlight on the much-adored Norm standout and “the album’s peak” (Treble). The hand-drawn “Halloween Store” video is charming and timely, a perfect visual accompaniment for the fast-approaching holiday.

Next spring, Shauf will embark on a North American solo tour, bringing his beloved live set to a slew of intimate venues in major cities and smaller markets. A full list of dates are below, and tickets are on-sale this Friday at 10am ET. 

WATCH / SHARE “HALLOWEEN STORE” HERE

Recently, Denmark’s Brodie Sessions released a special performance by Shauf and his band performing Norm’s title track, “Halloween Store” and “Sunset”. This was shot on 16mm and filmed at H.C. Ørsted Power Station in Copenhagen.

WATCH ANDY SHAUF PERFORM “NORM”, “HALLOWEEN STORE”, & “SUNSET”
FOR BRODIE SESSIONS

As hailed by Pitchfork, "[Shauf's] eighth album, Norm, is his most meticulous and beguiling, straying from his semi-autobiographical past work to span three perspectives and tactfully downplaying its philosophical quandaries with his lushest arrangements to date.” Shauf wrote, performed and recorded the album in its entirety and enlisted Neal Pogue (Outkast, Tyler, The Creator) to mix. Pogue took the music’s sonic framework in a new direction, one with a greater sense of clarity and lots of space. Listen closely, and deep in the music, a shift happens as the world goes sideways. The tempo slows, vertigo slips in, or a discordant note appears. An uneasy clarinet phrase devolves into a busy signal. A lyric veers from a bird’s-eye-view to intimate thoughts. The result is a recognizable Shauf production, but with a flowing landscape of suppressed grooves propelling the songs toward uncertain destinations. He’s driving us out to a wild and dangerous place. 

WATCH / SHARE “WASTED ON YOU”  HERE

WATCH / SHARE “CATCH YOUR EYE” HERE

WATCH / SHARE “TELEPHONE” HERE 

ANDY SHAUF TOUR DATES
Oct. 22 - Dublin, IE @ The Sugar Club
Oct. 23 - Cork, IE @ St. Luke's
Oct. 25 - Toulouse, FR @ Le Metronum
Oct. 26 - Barcelona, ES @ La Nau
Oct. 27 - Zaragoza, ES @ La Lata De Bombillas
Oct. 29 - Madrid, ES @ El Sol
Oct. 30 - Porto, PT @ Mouco
Nov. 1 - Kortrijk, BE @ De Kreun
Nov. 2 - Liège, BE @ Reflektor
Nov. 24 - Seoul, KR @ Musinsa Garage
Nov. 27 - Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro
Nov. 28 - Osaka, JP @ Club Quattro
Nov. 29 - Aichi, JP @ Club Quattro
Dec. 2 - Hong Kong, HK @ Clockenflap Music Festival
Mar. 21 - Homer, NY @ Center For The Arts
Mar. 22 - Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios
Mar. 23 - Portland, ME @ First Parish Church
Mar. 25 - Boston, MA @ First Church Cambridge
Mar. 26 - South Deerfield, MA @ Tree House Brewing
Mar. 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Murmrr
Mar. 29 - Arden, DE @ The Gild Hall
Mar. 30 - Vienna, VA @ The Barns @ Wolf Trap
Apr. 1 - Asheville, NC @ Asheville Masonic Temple
Apr. 3 - Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records
Apr. 6 - Eau Claire, WI @ Pablo Center
Apr. 7 - Evanston, IL @ SPACE
Apr. 8 - Evanston, IL @ SPACE
Apr. 20 - Boulder, CO @ Bluebird Music Festival
Apr. 21 - Boulder, CO @ Bluebird Music Festival
Apr. 22 - Santa Fe, NM @ St. Francis Auditorium
Apr. 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project
Apr. 26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project
Apr. 27 - Ojai, CA @ Ojai Women’s Club
Apr. 28 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library
Apr. 30 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
May 1 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
May 3 - Seattle, WA @ Washington Hall
May 4 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church
May 5 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church
May 8 - Bend, OR @ Old Saint Francis
May 9 - Boise, ID @ El Korah Shrine
May 11 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Tavern

PRAISE FOR ANDY SHAUF AND NORM

"Norm is a gorgeously produced collection of short folk-fiction. When given closer attention, the album unfurls into an anthology of dark, interconnected tales of loss, unrequited love and casual brushes with the divine." — Variety

"Shauf has a knack for those sorts of observational details, and he approaches writing lyrics a bit like writing fiction." — Vanity Fair

"Andy Shauf is a master at capturing the tragedy in the minutiae of human interactions." — The FADER

"Even at their most obscure, Shauf’s songs are as alive and full of mystery as the stranger beside you at checkout." — Pitchfork

“It's an album that further solidifies his position as a genre-leading storyteller” - Exclaim!

“A dreamlike serenity is undercut with unsettling desperation in ‘Catch Your Eye’” - New York Times

"[Andy Shauf is] just such a phenomenal storyteller." — NPR Music

“The certified crooner sharpens his pen for another beautiful narrative-based offering” -
RANGE Mag

"Rather than connecting the dots of its characters’ lore, Norm questions the format of the concept album in the first place, presenting pieces of evidence and asking the listener to find the story and draw their own conclusions" — Paste

"Like any good story, Norm rewards multiple listens. Its most indelible moments are enriched with Shauf’s curious details: The Price Is Right soundtracking a divinely hallucinogenic vision, a movie theater as a haven for peeping, and a climactic trip to a Halloween store." — MTV News

. “...each song like a new episode of a TV miniseries thought up by a more subtle Hitchcock, a less gothy Burton, a more disturbed Wes Anderson” - Northern Transmissions

"With his delicate touch and keen eye for detail, Shauf weaves together a rich tapestry of sounds and lyrics to create an atmosphere that is at once dreamy and introspective.” — Glide

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