Exclusive: Listen to Buxton’s New Album, Stay Out Late

Buxton have shared an advance stream of their new album Stay Out Late, premiering exclusively here at Paste before its wide release this Friday, Oct. 19, on New West.

Stay Out Late emerged from frontman Sergio Trevino’s prolonged experience with writer’s block after the band’s previous album, 2015’s Half a Native. Trevino attributed the creative stoppage to a level of contentment he felt he had reached. “Often I’d feel like it was due to the fact that I was happy, with no angst or turmoil to sing about,” he said in a statement. “I was about to get married and I had built a studio behind my house, and I had access to everything I needed to be creative, but I wasn’t coming up with anything.”

To move forward, Trevino found he had to look backward. The songs that populate Stay Out Late are not reliant on reckoning with the now, but on grappling with ghosts long since vanished. “I think it’s a reflective album. It’s almost like looking at your past in a mirror. Looking back at time, love, music and growing older.”

While he eventually found some fertile creative ground in writing about his marriage, Trevino said it was Talk Talk’s seminal post-rock opus Laughing Stock that kickstarted the songwriting process. He listened to the album while hiking through the California redwoods and came back with a newfound desire to create. “Killing your idols has always been a motto of mine, make something better than the people you admire, but with Talk Talk it’s like trying to kill a ghost.”

The songs on Stay Out Late find their engine in the space between cloistered isolation and contented company. They’re alternately haunted and sprightly, full of acoustic strokes and pearlescent electric touches. Aside from Talk Talk, Trevino cites Jason Molina of Electric Magnolia Co. and Songs: Ohia as an influence, and Molina’s sprawling Americana can be felt in songs like “Haunt You” and “The Place Reminds Me of You.”

Stream Buxton’s Stay Out Late in full below, exclusively here at Paste, and find a 2011 Buxton performance from the Paste archives, as well as the Stay Out Late album art and tracklist, further down. The band will be touring for the remainder of the year—keep scrolling for their dates.

Stay Out Late Album Art:

Stay Out Late Tracklist:
01. The Place Reminds Me of You
02. Jan
03. Blood Runs Blue
04. Haunt You
05. Hanging On the Coast
06. Inside Out
07. Miles and Miles
08. New World
09. Made For Now
10. Hole Heart
11. Green of Endless Pines

Buxton Tour Dates:

October
18 – Austin, Texas @ Hotel Vegas w/ Claire Morales
19 – Houston, Texas @ The Heights Theater
20 – Dallas, Texas @ Double Wide

November
30 – Athens, Ga. @ Caledonia Lounge

December
02 – Durham, N.C. @ Pinhook
04 – New York, N.Y. @ Berlin
05 – Cincinnati, Ohio @ MOTR Pub
06 – Chicago, Ill. @ The Hideout
09 – Nashville, Tenn. @ The High Watt