Exclusive: Elijah Johnston Shares “I Know What You Did Last Summer”

Atlanta singer-songwriter Elijah Johnston has announced his new album, Stupid Soul. The 12-song LP, produced by Tommy Trautwein in Athens, Georgia, will arrive June 20 via Strolling Bones Records, following up his 2023 release, Hometown Vampire. The tracks will, according to a press statement, will explore “young people struggling with their own bodies,” “baby bands trying to find their sound,” and “anybody weathering football season in a college town.”

Gideon Johnston, Drew Beskin, Trautwein, Hotel Fiction’s Aidan Hill, and Rose Hotel‘s Jordan Reynolds are featured on the album. “Even though it’s just one person’s name, it’s super collaborative. People have asked me, Why don’t you just come up with a band name?” Johnston says of his collaborators. “And the only real answer I have is that it’s too late. We’re too far down the track.”

New single “I Know What You Did Last Summer” pulls from the (in my opinion) underrated horror flick of the same name. Johnston says of the song: “This song uses the campy ’90s teen horror classic of the same name as a framework to explore teenage feelings of shame and angst that linger with us into adulthood, shaping the way we view our bodies and our relationship to moral standards.”