Avery Tucker, formerly one half of the indie-rock band Girlpool, has announced his debut solo album: Paw is out October 10. He’s shared the new single “Like I’m Young,” too, and it comes with a Nick Vernet–directed video of Tucker performing the song while stuck in a barren room with a dog. Check it out below.
“‘Like I’m Young’ is probably one of the most emotionally raw songs I’ve ever written,” Tucker said in a statement. “There are lines in the song I remember writing and thinking ‘I won’t keep this in.’ I decided to take this song to the edge of myself at the time, and whenever I play the song live I walk alongside that cliff within me and feel the height.”
“Like I’m Young” is the second song to be shared from Paw, following “Big Drops.” The 11-track LP was co-produced with Alaska Reid and recorded between Livingston, Montana, and Encino, California. Joining Tucker on Paw are Muna’s Katie Gavin (singing on “Angel”), Porches’ Aaron Maine (singing and producing “Baby Broke”), and A. G. Cook (producing “My Life Isn’t Leaving You”).
Girlpool, the Los Angeles–based duo of Tucker and Harmony Tividad, broke up in 2022, a few months after releasing what would become their fourth and final album, Forgiveness. Last year, Tividad made her solo debut with the studio album Gossip.
Read about Girlpool’s debut Before the World Was Big at No. 119 in “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.”
