Photo by: Jimmy Fontaine
Official press release:
Today, Toronto, Canada-based punk artist ThxSoMch announces his unhinged, commanding debut record The Sound of You Laughing out on August 29 via Atlantic Records, available to pre-save now. With the announcement, ThxSoMch unveils a massive tour kicking off this September across North America with support from re6ce and Europe–see a full list of dates below.
Produced by grayskies (d4vd, Wisp) and mixed by legendary producer and engineer Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys) the album is as much self-expression as it is escapism, where he finds both solace and catharsis for himself and fans alike.
Recorded over seven months in Brazil, isolated from everything and everyone he knows alongside producer grayskies, ThxSoMch poured himself into a body of work that fully captures everything he is today–it’s vulnerable, raw and made with true intention and a clear purpose. Recalling what it felt like to make, the artist shares:
“It put me in the best mental place I’ve been in for a long time. No phone, no English, no sense of time—just a flow state that let me escape everything else. Creating this was like a cigarette after a long craving. I hope it can be that for someone else too—a fix, a release, something to hold onto when everything else slips. It’s the sound of acceptance and the sound of burying what’s really going on. It’s mockery and coping, choking and surviving.”
The fully-charged project, mixed by legendary producer and engineer Mike Crossey, sees the multi-faceted songwriter, producer and performer find his own sound that disrupts both rock and rap as he delivers a fast-paced, exhilarating and honest examination of the self and life’s impermanence.
Full of energy and emotion, ThxSoMch continues:
“It isn’t a cure—it’s a distraction. A pause. A breath between breakdowns. Just long enough to feel okay before the weight comes back. You can’t laugh forever. You laugh until you choke. And then it’s not so funny anymore.”
ThxSoMch can’t wait to take the new music on the road, prepped with his most raucous live show yet. The tour will kick off in Salt Lake City on September 22 and will tear through Colorado, Texas and much of California, up the West Coast into three Canada dates and down the East Coast including New York, Philadelphia and D.C. November will see Atlanta, Charlotte and some of the Midwest including Chicago and Minneapolis before the tour electrifies Europe through December including stops in Prague, London Paris, Dublin and more.
9/22 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
9/23 Denver, CO – The Marquis
9/26 Dallas, TX – Puzzles
9/30 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
10/02 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent
10/04 Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone
10/07 Portland, OR – Star Theatre
10/08 Seattle, WA – Nectar Lounge
10/09 Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
10/20 Toronto, ON – Mod Club
10/22 Montreal, QC – Studio TD
10/24 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Downstairs
10/26 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
10/28 Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
10/29 Washington, DC – Union Stage
11/01 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
11/03 Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
11/04 Columbus, OH – A&R Bar
11/05 Chicago, IL – Reggies
11/08 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
11/28 Prague, CZ – Fuchs2
11/30 Warsaw, PL – Hydrozagadka
12/01 Vienna, AT – Flucc
12/02 Munich, DE – Ampere
12/04 Paris, FR – Backstage
12/05 Cologne, DE – Kantine
12/07 Brussels, BE – Botanique
12/08 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli – Pandora
12/10 London, UK – Scala (Electric Ballroom upgrade)
12/11 Manchester, UK – Gorilla
12/13 Leeds, UK – Key Club
12/14 Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Warehouse
12/16 Dublin, IE – Green Room
