Beach Bunny Announce Emotional Creature, Share “Fire Escape”

Beach Bunny’s back, baby. The Chicago-based quartet led by songwriter Lili Trifilio have announced their much-anticipated sophomore album Emotional Creature, coming July 22 on Mom + Pop Music. New single “Fire Escape” follows 2021’s “Oxygen,” two of 12 new tracks on the band’s Honeymoon follow-up, which was written “immediately prior to and during” the pandemic, per a press release, and produced by Sean O’Keefe (Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack) at Chicago’s Shirk Studios.

Trifilio says of Emotional Creature in a statement:

We are always changing, growing, and adapting—it’s a deeply ingrained part of the human experience. We strive to be stronger, trust we’ll grow smarter, and spend most of our lives reaching for comfort and happiness. Sometimes, life is stagnant, sometimes, life is difficult—but the wonderful part of being human is that we evolve and make the bleak moments beautiful—we find new ways to survive. Humans are emotional creatures and I wanted to capture that with this album in order to show how complex, sometimes tragic, and mostly wonderful the human experience can be.

“Fire Escape” is Beach Bunny at their hooky, heart-stirring best, their confident performances as accessible as Trifilio’s songwriting is emotionally challenging and evocative. Pain and beauty intertwine as she croons, “Life’s fragile, patient / Broken glass flyin’ through the air,” over red-hot power chords and cymbal crashes, confessing in the track’s lovesick bridge, “My heart is tipping over.”

Beach Bunny kick off a 35+ date tour of North America and Europe next month, which features both their Coachella and Primavera Sound debuts, and their biggest venues yet—befitting a band who recently crossed the 1 billion (!) stream mark across their catalog. You can grab tickets right here.

Check out “Fire Escape” below, plus Beach Bunny’s 2019 Paste Studio session, the details of Emotional Creature and the band’s tour dates.