Hand Habits Announce New Album ‘Blue Reminder’ & Confirm 2025 Fall Tour

Hand Habits (multi-instrumentalist-songwriter Meg Duffy) will release a new album entitled Blue Reminder on August 22 via Fat Possum Records. Duffy shared the album’s lead single “Wheel Of Change” and confirmed headlining tour dates supporting the release.

Duffy assembled a talented core of musicians for the follow-up to the 2021 LP Fun House and their 2023 EP Sugar The Bruise. Recording sessions took place in Los Angeles with co-producer Joseph Lorge. The album was mostly tracked live with contributions from Blake Mills, Olivia Kaplan, Daniel Aged, Tim Carr, Gregory Uhlmann, Alan Wyffels, and Joshua Johnson and Anna Butters of SML.

Speaking about the new album, Duffy explained:

“For this record, I set out to no longer shapeshift when it came to the person I become in the face of love. “Of course the weight of the past is always in the room with me when I sit down to write. It is filtered through my way of making even the most precious moments imbued with something blue — the constant reminder is there — but I have spent so much time writing as a means to work through pain, or place blame on myself or others, and I am at a point in my life where I’m more interested in acceptance, forgiveness, and exploring what it means to need and be needed.

“I think it’s so corny to write love songs. I can’t deny that a lot of these are ostensibly love songs, but they are also love songs through my very specific kind of lens. It is about how falling in love does feel both terrifying and exciting, but this record is about commitment in a lot of ways. Committing to a person, to an idea, to being a more honest version of yourself.

“When I reflect on how society can punish or cruelly imply a brokenness to anyone who lives in the margins of a limited range of what they consider normal, or imply they are the way they are because of a defect or illness, it’s hard not to internalize some of this way of thinking. I’ve done a lot of work to accept myself for who I am, and that I deserve to live as the truest version of myself, and that my mistakes and shortcomings are human, not as a result of my identity.

“That it is possible for queer/trans people to have healthy, loving, passionate, and functional lives and relationships. That we can be in and contribute to the community. That we can be loved for, not in spite of who we are. Even though we are living a nightmare right now in a lot of ways, this record is about living the dream. It’s a reminder that the dream is possible.”

Watch the video accompanying the release of the single, “Wheel Of Change”:

Blue Reminder Tracklist

1. More Today
2. Wheel of Change
3. Nubble
4. Dead Rat
5. Jasmine Blossoms
6. Way It Goes
7. (Forgiveness)
8. Beauty 62
9. Bluebird of Happiness
10. Blue Reminder
11. Quiet Summer
12. Living Proof

 

Hand Habits will support Yeah Yeah Yeahs on July 9 in Los Angeles. The band returns to California to support Japanese Breakfast in Pioneertown on August 21 and to headline in Los Angeles on August 23.

Hand Habit’s headlining tour proceeds with performances in Brooklyn on September 19, New York City on September 20 and Washington D.C. on September 21. The tour continues with stops in Albany on September 23, Montreal on September 24, Toronto on September 26, Ferndale (Michigan) on September 27, Chicago on September 28, Pittsburgh on September 30 and Philadelphia on October 1.

West Coast dates resume in October with San Francisco on October 15, Portland on October 17, Vancouver on October 18, Seattle on October 21 and Healdsburg (California) on October 23. The tour then crosses the Atlantic for a European leg supporting Perfume Genius.

Following presales, tickets to Hand Habit’s newly announced tour dates go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 6.