Chicago's This House is Creaking Release Glitched-Out Single
THIS HOUSE IS CREAKING
RELEASE GLITCHED-OUT, NOISILY REFLECTIVE SONG
“SOMETHING ELSE” - LISTEN
SUPPORTING DIIV
AT TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS FESTIVAL
IN CHICAGO ON JANUARY 17 AT LINCOLN HALL
2025 ALBUM I WANT TO FEEL AT HOME HERE OUT NOW - PURCHASE/STREAM
“I'm seeing...This House Is Creaking blowing up.”
— Eli Enis, Chasing Sundays
“2 LAMP (lava lamp)”
— Pitchfork Selects
“2 LAMP (lava lamp)”
— Alternative Press A-Sides
Chicago band This House is Creaking (THiC) have shared their new single “Something Else.” The band’s scuzzy noise pop sound gets glittering, white-hot sparks sent through it on this track. Introspection is couched within sharp, angular guitar as the track ranges from nebulous and bubbling to a splittingly intense cathartic explosion. Their inventive playfulness keeps the ear guessing and contrasts the confessional lyrics, a fittingly THiC approach to it all. This single follows last month’s release of their song “2 LAMP (lava lamp)”, which was chosen for Pitchfork Selects and Alternative Press A-Sides, and received acclaim from outlets such as Chasing Sundays and Glide Magazine.
"This is a song about accepting mediocrity in the face of failure, even when you cannot figure out why it is you’ve failed, and trying to fix things that seem to have broken without understanding how they broke in the first place,” says This House is Creaking, “It’s a funny song we made with our friends Peter Schultze and Hunter Borowick from Tuff Sudz."
LISTEN TO “SOMETHING ELSE”
This past summer, This House is Creaking released their second album, I Want To Feel At Home Here. Tracks like the hooky, scrawling “Talk To Me” illustrate their bent towards noise and careful ear for melody, while “Elden Ring” displays a tender, earth-laden end of their range. It wrestles with wondering what is happening in the world and how to find oneself within it. One thing the album makes very clear is that, while they have a highly distinct sound all their own, you can never quite predict their next sonic steps.
PURCHASE/STREAM I WANT TO FEEL AT HOME HERE
THiC will kick off 2026 with an opening slot for DIIV at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL on January 17 as part of the iconic Tomorrow Never Knows Festival’s 20th anniversary edition, and a performance at Ground Control Touring Presents: 4th Annual Abortion Access Benefit Series, on January 24 at the Empty Bottle alongside artists such as Tobacco City, Good Flying Birds, Action/Adventure, and Mass Text. The band has received stamps of approval from several indie mainstays, including support slots for Water From Your Eyes and Hotline TNT, and supporting Delaney Bailey on a Midwest tour this fall. Drawing on Miller’s roots in electronic music and Nauman’s skill as a guitarist (playing in bands such as Godly the Ruler and M.A.G.S.), the band’s mixture of sounds and inspirations is reflective of the expansive cross-pollination of the Chicago music community today. Within this thriving creative environment, This House is Creaking is becoming a scene favorite.
THIS HOUSE IS CREAKING - LIVE 2025
DECEMBER
2 - The Bishop - Bloomington, IN %
4 - Lager House - Detroit, MI %
5 - Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL %
JANUARY 2026
17 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL *
24 - Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL #
* w/ DIIV
% w/ Delaney Bailey
# Ground Control Touring Presents: 4th Annual Abortion Access Benefit Series
THIS HOUSE IS CREAKING
I WANT TO FEEL AT HOME HERE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 14, 2025
Tracklist:
Talk to Me
I Want to Feel at Home Here
GO!
Whisper
Say Something
Elden Ring
Let The Rot In
Become
ABOUT THIS HOUSE IS CREAKING:
There is always a third mind created in the process of a two-person collaboration. In the case of Chicago-based musicians Micah Miller and Ehmed Nauman, that third mind happens to be called This House Is Creaking (THiC). The pair aren’t satisfied with convention, or at least not with presenting conventions conventionally: they are influenced as much by 90s alt-rock and midwest emo as they are the spasmic digital experiments of PC Music. THiC use their pop-forward, anthemic approach to art-rock to turn their inner monologues into a dialogue that traces the contours of trying to feel secure in one’s existence. At turns aggressive and caressing, THiC blends the beautiful, the abject, and the outright strange to explore experiences had in the world — a period of trying to change oneself, a miscommunication, getting comfortable — and turn them into sonic experiments which both bombard and comfort the listener.
Photo Credit: Brandon Mendoza
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