They Hate Change are a DIY rap duo who’ve spent the past couple of years opening for Toro y Moi, Bartees Strange, and Shame. Their great 2022 LP, Finally New, became their breakthrough, and now they’re back with an EP called Wish You Were Here…
Out Jan. 26 via Jagjaguwar, the EP was recorded over the past year while the Tampa Bay outfit were on the road. It marks their first time collaborating with outside producers and includes the dauntless single “stunt (when i see u),” which came out in July.
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“Our first year of touring consisted of seven tours, multiple weeklong stints in single cities, a gang of festivals, and about two months total (nonconsecutive) spent at home in Florida,” they say. “Along with this time period came a bunch of interviews, photo shoots, sessions, new friends, impeccable dinners, decent breakfasts (big up Greggs), as well as literal hundreds of missed calls, texts, DMs, and emails, as we traveled across the water and back three times over.
“No manager to hold down our inbox, no tour manager to book our flights and hotels (if we had a hotel!), no front-of-house sound tech traveling with us to soundcheck before the show, nobody to set up and sell our merch for us after the show, and nobody to tell us how to get to the next city safely,” they continue. “Just us. These are some of the songs we made with our old and new friends in the middle of all this.”
Listen to “Wallabees & Weejuns,” plus see the artwork and tracklist for Wish You Were Here…, below.
Wish You Were Here… tracklist
“Thank You For Reaching Out (Intro)”
“stunt (when i see u)”
“Biscuits” (feat. Wu-Lu & Cherele)
“So Excited” (feat. Cherele)
“Wallabies & Weejuns”
