Later this month, Jake Ewald will release his second album as Slaughter Beach, Dog, coming just a little over a year after the first, Welcome. But the patience exhibited on earlier singles “Gold And Green” and “Fish Fry” and on “Acolyte,” the last song on the album and its latest single, don’t make Birdie feel like it was made in any kind of compressed time period. “Acolyte” feels especially unhurried, concerned with passing time until some arbiter of whether you’re “old enough” makes itself clear. That struggle is illuminated beautifully in the lines: “Man, it cuts like a dull knife when you’re young and you’re told, ‘Makes sense when you’re older.’/ Darling, let’s get old.” Listen below.

Tour Dates: 11/02 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Funhouse 11/03 Toronto, ON @ The Smiling Buddha 11/04 Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s 11/05 Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar 11/07 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen 11/08 St. Louis, MO @ Fubar 11/10 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge 11/11 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court 11/13 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of The Hill^ 11/14 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo^ 11/16 Mesa, AZ @ The Underground 11/18 Dallas, TX @ The Dirty 30 11/19 Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Jr. 11/21 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 11/24 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge 11/25 Allston, MA @ Great Scott

• = w/ Shannen Moser

  = solo

  ^ = w/ Shannen Moser, Walter Etc.

Birdie is out 10/27 via Lame-O Records.