Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio announces new solo album with two lead tracks

"Endless Me, Endlessly" and "What Do You Say When I’m Not There?" are Baio's first new outings since his 2017 LP Man of the World.

Baio says of "Endless Me, Endlessly", ""Endless Me, Endlessly" is a simple song about being there in every possible capacity for someone else. Through hard times just as much as good times. In a way, it’s a bit of a fantasy - a single person cannot be everything to someone else. Lately, though, I have found fantasy to be a thing of comfort."

He adds that the second single is "The polar opposite emotionally. It’s an ode to insecurity and the fact that you can never truly know what is going on in someone else’s mind. With this song I tried to strike a pointed contrast between melancholy lyrics and an upbeat, sunny energy."

Dead Hand Control was recorded over the space of 18 months between Damon Albarn's London 13 Studios and his C+C Music Factory in LA.

The album title is inspired by a rumoured Soviet missile system designed to destroy America. Baio explains, "I was looking at the past five years of American life and obsessing about topics like death, wills and nuclear war, but at its heart, it’s about how the only thing you can control is the way you treat the people in your life."

Tracklist:

1. Dead Hand Control
2. Endless Me, Endlessly
3. What Do You Say When I’m Not There?
4. Dead Hand
5. Take It From Me
6. Caisse Noire
7. Never Never Never
8. O.M.W.