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Sep 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Ted Leo

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Ted Leo is self-releasing a new album, The Hanged Man, this Friday (September 8). Previously he shared the album’s first two singles, “You’re Like Me” and “Can’t Go Back.” Now “Can’t Go Back” has a video. A press release says the video is inspired by 1970s commercials for K-Tel compilations. It features Leo performing the song in various outfits, sometimes at the piano. And sometimes text appears as if it’s a TV ad. Rachel Lichtman directed the video. Watch it below, followed by his upcoming tour dates.

Leo hasn’t released a solo full-length album or one with The Pharmacists in seven years, since 2010’s The Brutalist Bricks, but earlier this year he announced a Kickstarter campaign for a new one and shared a five-minute sampler of songs.

The Hanged Man is Leo’s 13th album, but the first credited solely to his name (rather than Ted Leo and the Pharmacists). Leo described in a previous press release the recording of the album as a time of “personal desolation that felt fallow but was actually very fertile.” Acclaimed graphic novelist Emil Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters) did the cover art. Despite not releasing a solo album in seven years, Leo did team up with Aimee Mann for 2014’s collaborative album The Both.

Ted Leo Tour Dates:

09/09 New York, NY - Seaport Music Festival
09/14 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
09/15 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09/16 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09/17 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
09/19 Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace
09/20 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
09/23 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
09/24 Pittsburgh, PA - Spirit Hall
10/23 Richmond, VA - Strange Matter
10/24 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
10/25 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10/27 Dallas, TX - Club Dada
10/28 Austin, TX - Mohawk
10/31 Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
11/1 San Diego, CA - Casbah
11/3 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram Ballroom
11/4 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo’s 365 Club
11/6 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall
11/8 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
11/11 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
11/13 Columbus, OH - Skully’s
12/02 Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre
12/03 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall
12-04 Burlington, VT- Arts Riot
12-05 Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa
12-07 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt
12-08 Hamden, CT - The Ballroom at The Outer Space
12-09 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg

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