Pre-Order: Pedro the Lion – Santa Cruz ☀️
Pre-Order: Pedro the Lion – Santa Cruz
Out June 7th 
Welcome to Santa Cruz — the third installment in the musical memoir of David Bazan’s life as told via the Pedro the Lion moniker. Covering a little less than a decade, from ages 13 until 21 – Santa Cruz is the most fraught and frank album yet in a planned five-album arc.
These songs ripple with the anxiety and energy of teenage awakening—hearing rock ’n’ roll, making out with an older schoolmate, falling in love, and finally starting to understand that in order to be yourself you’re going to need to be something other than your parents’ vision of you.
It is the rawest, most affecting and affirming album Pedro the Lion has ever made.
Cloudy Clear w/ Sky Blue & Pine Forest Green Splatters Early Bird Vinyl
Pine Forest Green Vinyl
Test Pressing
CD
Cassette Tape
Bundle the album with the new Pedro the Lion merch of your choice and get ready for June.
Watch: “Modesto”
I heard the perfect song at work today… 
“Of all the tunes on these records, I can’t think of another tune where I was really expressing my own agency. It was the first time where I really had a choice of what I wanted to do.
It became really clear in those 6 months when I lived in Modesto that I didn’t want to work any other job – I wanted to try and make music. This song definitely feels like the launch pad for what became the life that I chose.”
– David Bazan
It became really clear in those 6 months when I lived in Modesto that I didn’t want to work any other job – I wanted to try and make music. This song definitely feels like the launch pad for what became the life that I chose.”
– David Bazan
Watch the video for lead single, “Modesto,” directed by David Bazan’s longtime friend, Cody Cloud. A cathartic retelling of one of the most transformative periods of his life — Bazan vows to return to Seattle, to be in a band, to fall in love, to be himself.
Tour
See you there 
You won’t want to miss Pedro the Lion on tour this summer across North America, featuring support from PV label-mate Squirrel Flower, as well as Flock of Dimes, and Danielle Durack. Tickets on-sale this Friday, April 5 @ 10am local time.