Pretty Sick announces debut album, ‘Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile’
ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM
MAKES ME SICK MAKES ME SMILE DUE SEPT 30TH VIA DIRTY HITSHARES LEAD SINGLE AND VIDEO ‘HUMAN CONDITION’
SUPPORTING BEABADOOBEE ON UK TOUR THIS FALL
“Youthful and unpredictable edge, careening from grunge-y snarls to softer, slower ballads” Pigeons & Planes
“dark vibe with a killer chorus and guitar licks as sharp as swords” The FADER
“the NYC rockband here to save us all” i-D
“Pretty Sick have built a signature sound of grunge-rock chronicling the highs and lows of coming of age” Dazed
London-based, New York City-rooted band Pretty Sick announces their debut full-length album Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile due September 30th. Along with the album’s announcement, Pretty Sick shares the first taste of the new project with the single ‘Human Condition’. The new song is accompanied by surreal visuals directed by Frank Lebon portraying vocalist Sabrina Fuentes crowded by a troop of suit-donning bodyguards and watched through various screens in homes throughout the city, playing with themes of love, fandom and obsession.
The announcement of Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile and ‘Human Condition’ are the first offerings from Pretty Sick in 2022. With Fuentes’ relocation to London after spending all of her life in New York, the new project sees her juxtapose a life between the two cities. A fully-realized, visceral experience that’s both blunt, bleak and stubbornly romantic, it weaves together the heady visions of prior EPs Come Down and Deep Divine into an uncompromising portrait that’s point-blank and personal.
Pretty Sick will be supporting beabadoobee across her UK and Ireland tour this October. The 12-date run will begin on October 4th in Dublin and will make stops in Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow before wrapping up in London at the O2 Academy Brixton. Full tour routing can be found below.
Sabrina Fuentes formed Pretty Sick when she was just 13-years-old. In addition to Fuentes on bass, Pretty Sick is also guitarist Orazio Argentero, who also plays in South London experimental outfit Paddywak, and drummer Ava Kaufman.
Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile contemplates the complex ties of finding a home within a scene. Fuentes grew up in Manhattan, and assumed she’d carry on working after various fashion internships at VFILES and Helmut Lang, until she had a life-changing conversation at a dinner party where an acquaintance pulled her aside and was adamant she get out.
Across the 12 tracks, Fuentes grapples with her claustrophobic surroundings, and the idea that the environment you exist in can be a matter of life or death. Chock full of flashbacks to anxiety and the warped sense of realism that comes from teetering on the precipice, Fuentes recalls toxic relationships, power imbalances and a myriad of dangerous situations that she notes, “still keep me up at night.”
Pre-order/save Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile and check out ‘Human Condition’ above, see full tour routing below, and stay tuned for more from Pretty Sick coming soon.
