LA-based singer-songwriter Rosie Tucker (they/them) is a dynamic creative force. Today, they’ve announced their third album Sucker Supreme out on April 30, their first with Epitaph Records. The new collection is a coming of age album aching with self-discovery, self-definition, and self-redefinition.
They have also revealed the album’s lead single/video “Habanero,” a song about waiting for a transformation that isn’t coming. “The first two verses of ‘Habanero’ are about flirting, which is an important distraction from both the problems of the self and the issue of mortality,” says Tucker. “Desire is not the same thing as a sense of self, but it’ll work as an added sugar corn syrup kind of substitute. The third verse pulls from an early memory of a stream dense with tadpoles, watching them wriggle around my fingers in the water. I was obsessed – obsessed – with amphibians in general, and frogs in particular. I loved that they couldn’t be confined to one environment. I loved that they grow up by way of shape-shifting.” They continue, “I’ve spent a lot of time refusing to come to terms with the fact that I am stuck with myself, being the person I am all the time. I have gotten adequate at living while impatiently waiting for the smarter, kinder, better looking version of myself to come along, lead me out back, and put me out of my misery.”
Listen to “Habanero” and watch the video for it below:
On this album, Rosie’s openhearted, sing-song alto melodies are king; wry, detailed lyricism is queen; and noise is the old man with the long beard who seems like he came from nowhere. As with all things Rosie Tucker, this album is not easily slotted into a binary like happy or sad. In the world of Sucker Supreme, concepts like male or female, married or divorced, destruction or salvation, are not two opposite sides of the same coin, they are all connected points on the same sphere.
Sucker Supreme artwork & tracklist:
1. Barbara Ann
2. Habanero
3. Different Animals
4. Trim
5. For Sale: Ford Pinto
6. Ambrosia
7. Arrow
8. Creature of Slime
9. Brand New Beast
10. Airport
11. Dog
12. Clinic Poem
13. Peach Pit
14. How Was It?