Alpine (Photo Provided)

Alpine will embark on an extensive U.S. tour this fall with Joywave, including a stop in Indianapolis. The band, who is currently touring Australia, continue to celebrate the release of their sophomore LP “Yuck.”

Recently, the band was featured on NPR Weekend Edition. In addition, the videos for “Damn Baby” and lead single “Foolish” are out now.

Lyrically, the new album sees the band exploring their “yuck” reactions to “first world problems”— awkward dates, a distaste for romance, lust when lust was lost, plastic vanity, foolish attraction and ego against egos. Musically, inspiration came from the desire to push the “pop” genre to new and often weird places. Christian O’Brien (guitarist and co-producer of the album) notes, “Most of the music of the songs came from a textural or harmonic idea that I was curious about. I wanted to see if certain things would work in a pop song.”