Aaron Lee Tasjan Displays ‘Stellar Evolution’ On New Album, Shares Single & Tour Dates

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan confirmed a new album, Stellar Evolution, arriving on April 12 via Blue Élan. Tasjan previewed the record with the lead single “Horror Of It All,” which arrived with a music video inspired by Teen Wolf. Tasjan also announced 2024 Spring Tour dates.

Stellar Evolution follows Aaron’s 2021 album Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! The singer-songwriter co-produced the new LP with Gregory Lattimer. Stellar Evolution is a “celestial collection of sonically expansive anthems, connecting the far away universes of slacker indie rock, hyper-pop and new wave,” as per a press release.

The album also sees Tasjan, who identifies as bi-sexual, addressing the injustices the LGBTQI+ community has experienced in Aaron’s home of Nashville and the South as a whole such as bathroom and drag bans as well as hateful rhetoric.

“The record became a sort of rallying cry for being who you are in a time when people literally wanna try to make it illegal to do that,” Tasjan stated. “I felt like it was really important to let people know that they’re not alone, that we’re all in this fight together and that we see each other, and that we’re gonna do what this community always does, which is come together and have each other’s backs.”

Stellar Evolution lead single, “Horror Of It All,” addresses the fear of not being able to be oneself, as Tasjan explained:

“When I think of what scares me the most about ‘being myself,’ is that I’ll get rejected for it. This song examines the concepts of both rejection and self-acceptance through metaphors of childhood playground heartbreak and the dramatic nature of the teenage experience. The story is being told through the eyes of a young queer person. I wanted to use experiences from childhood in the song because I feel like those heartaches are the ones that are truly everlasting. In life, we have to deal with and learn from the heartbreaks of our youth. Those lessons stay with us because the pain of the experience can be processed but the memory of it happening always remains.”

Watch the Teen Wolf-inspired, Curtis Wayne Millard-created music video, premiered by Paper Magazine, for “Horror Of It All” below:

Aaron Lee Tasjan is set to hit the road around Stellar Evolution this spring. The tour gets underway on April 18 in St. Louis. Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Nashville, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle are among the cities Tasjan will hit on the spring trek. The tour wraps at Denver’s Globe Hall on May 21.

Find Aaron Lee Tasjan’s complete tour routing with ticket info below:

Stellar Evolution Tracklist:

1. Alien Space Queen
2. The Drugs Did Me
3. Dylan Shades
4. Horror Of It All
5. Pants
6. Ocean Drive
7. Nightmare
8. I Love America Better Than You
9. Roll Your Windows Down
10. Bird
11. Cry Till You’re Laughing
12. Young