Palehound Announces New Album ‘You Sing Like You’re Joking’

Palehound, the project of Boston songwriter El Kempner, will release a new album, *You Sing Like You’re Joking*, on 5 February. Its nine songs explore indie rock from different angles, while the single “Natural Disasters” uses images of flooding and fire to convey a sense of looming crisis and disconnection.

Kempner said the song reflects the feeling that the future is “pretty doomy” and asks why people cannot get through it together. The album was co-produced with Julian Fader of Ava Luna and Katie Von Schleicher of Frankie Cosmos. A video directed by Rachel Brown of Water From Your Eyes accompanies the single; Brown said she wanted to depict impending societal doom as subtle and lonely.