POST ANIMAL & JOE KEERY Reunite On New Album ‘IRON’ out July 25
Joe Keery Reunites with Post Animal for the making of IRON
Post Animal On Sold-Out Tour with Djo Now
Post Animal – the Chicago-born psych and prog rock five-piece band comprised of Dalton Allison, Jake Hirshland, Javier Reyes, Wesley Toledo, Matt Williams – announce their new studio album, IRON, out July 25th.
When Post Animal began recording IRON, it was the first time all six original members were in the studio together for nearly a decade. In 2017, Joe Keery left the band to focus on acting as Stranger Things began to take off, and has since made music under the moniker Djo. Three band members also relocated away from Chicago, while they all explored other projects and toured with other friends. But in 2024, the six musicians started right back up at the beginning, rediscovering that uncompromising closeness of connection they all shared. The product of a few straight weeks together in the middle of the woods in Indiana, IRON not only finds Post Animal reunited with Keery, but is the embodiment of their renewed and ironclad connection.
IRON will be released on July 25th. With each band member bringing in song ideas, and taking turns on lead vocals, the entire record was written and produced by the five members of Post Animal and Keery. It was engineered by Dalton Allison & Charles Glanders, mixed by Djo co-producer Adam Thein & Allison, and mastered by Jared Hirshland. “This record felt like a revitalization of our friendships and our band,” Hirshland says. “We always work collaboratively, but it’s amazing how reintroducing Joe into the mix brought back that dynamic from 2017.”
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Out today is the album’s lead single “Last Goodbye,” a slow-loping look at the end of a relationship, a point in time somehow both uneasy and familiar. “I try to love every corner of your mind/ But we’ve been going off the deep end,” they sing, buffeted by choppy acoustic, prickly electric staccato, and waves of harmony.
Post Animal are currently on a fully sold-out U.S. tour with their bandmate Djo, which will continue throughout North America & UK/EU this year. Today Post Animal also announces a five-piece headline tour. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE when they go on-sale.
TOUR DATES
April 19 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren ** SOLD OUT
April 21 - Salt Lake City, UT - Rockwell at the Complex ** SOLD OUT
April 23 - Denver, CO - The Mission Ballroom ** SOLD OUT
April 25 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee ** SOLD OUT
April 26 - Saint Paul, MN - Palace Theatre ** SOLD OUT
April 28 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre ** SOLD OUT
April 29 - Toronto, ON - History ** SOLD OUT
May 01 - Washington, DC - The Anthem ** SOLD OUT
May 02 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner ** SOLD OUT
May 03 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall ** SOLD OUT
May 05 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel ** SOLD OUT
May 06 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel ** SOLD OUT
May 07 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel ** SOLD OUT
June 01 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Olympia ** SOLD OUT
June 02 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy ** SOLD OUT
June 03 - Manchester, UK - O2 Victoria Warehouse ** SOLD OUT
June 05 - London, UK - O2 Forum Kentish Town ** SOLD OUT
June 06 - London, UK - O2 Forum Kentish Town ** SOLD OUT
June 07 - London, UK - O2 Forum Kentish Town ** SOLD OUT
June 10 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Poolen ** LOW TICKET WARNING
June 11 - Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene ** LOW TICKET WARNING
June 13 - Stockholm, Sweden - Annexet ** LOW TICKET WARNING
June 16 - Cologne, Germany - E-Werk ** SOLD OUT
June 17 - Berlin, Germany - Huxleys ** SOLD OUT
June 18 - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja ** SOLD OUT
June 23 - Paris, France - Élysée Montmartre ** SOLD OUT
June 24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso ** SOLD OUT
June 25 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso ** SOLD OUT
November 1 - Detroit, MI - El Club
November 2 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison
November 4 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
November 5- Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
November 7 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
November 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
November 10 - Washington, DC - DC9 Nightclub
November 11 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room
November 13 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
November 14 - Nashville, TN - Third Man Records (Blue Room)
November 15 - Saint Louis, MO - Off Broadway Nightclub
November 17 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
November 18 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
December 3 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
December 5 - Dallas, TX - Dada
December 6 - Austin, TX - The Parish
December 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
December 10 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
December 12 - Portland, OR - Polaris Hall
December 13 - Seattle, WA - Neumos (Barboza)
December 15 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
December 17 - Denver, Co - Bluebird Theater
** supporting Djo
More on Post Animal & IRON:
After the release of 2022’s sublime Love Gibberish LP, Post Animal found themselves sunk deeper into their work than ever before. That record was their first released independently, with all the extra effort that entails. They also toured extensively, both on their own and with UK psych band Temples. By the time things started settling down, Post Animal was scattered to the wind. Guitarist Javi Reyes and drummer Wesley Toledo dropped back home to Chicago, while guitarist Matt Williams moved to Los Angeles, bassist Dalton Allison decamped for Ithaca, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Hirshland relocated to Brooklyn. “There was some burnout happening,” Allison says. “We were ruthlessly fighting and grinding.”
But then Keery showed up at a New York tour stop, and the idea was hatched that they cut another record—all six original band members together again, for the first time since 2017. “When we made When I Think of You in a Castle, that was near the start of Stranger Things,” Keery recalls. “And now with it kind of coming to an end in my own life, we all felt it'd be great to do something like that again, to go somewhere and be isolated and work on music together. It was a labor of love.” A big part of that process was focusing on the experience rather than putting pressure on an outcome. “We all agreed that even if we went and just hung out, we’d be happy with it,” Toledo says. “We're just heartfelt, sentimental, and emotional, but there was a real positivity and optimism among us.”
They would set up camp at the Indiana home of their friends Malcolm Brown and Charles Glanders, an A-frame tucked into some woodlands with massive windows for views of the fall foliage. In addition to the lush surroundings, the band’s hosts pitched in: Glanders engineered the tracks with Allison, while Brown inspired via chef-caliber meals. “We got back to our roots, hanging out and writing music without the expectations or pressure,” Hirshland says. Keery agrees, noting both how close they’ve remained and also much has changed since their last work together. "We're all still such great friends, but now everybody has a lot more experience under their belts," he says. "I was just appreciative to be spending this time, knowing we might not get another chance to do this the way we're doing it right now. The record reflects that enjoyment, and you can feel the fun."
Even when IRON touches on heavy themes, Post Animal finds fluidity and strength in their compositions—a clear result of sharing so much time together. Members of the group would come and go from the home studio, a free-flowing stream of ideas. “This is the easiest experience I’ve had making an album,” Williams says. Reyes agrees, noting that ease comes from understanding—and growing from—your past: “It’s a return to ourselves, but down the road, feeling better than we ever have.”
Throughout the album, Post Animal use that honed edge to push and pull at genre threads, imbuing some synthpop here and some folk there, vintage radio rock on one track and twitchy psychedelia on the next. Like the six sides of a die, the members of Post Animal and Keery each brought their own energy and style into an interconnected whole. As Hirshland explains it: “This is an exploration of being alive and in this group of friends.”
IRON puts the listener directly into the room with the band, freewheeling and experimental yet played with precision. That atmosphere should be palpable as the band hits the road with Keery’s Djo project, Toledo and Reyes pulling double duty as well by working in his backing band—the whole group getting to spend even more time together. “We’re having fun making things that we’re proud of. It’s a more mature period for us as collaborators and as friends,” Reyes says. “We’re all vibing with each other creatively, enjoying the momentum and our friendship.” Allison vehemently agrees: “All of these creative forces coming together, it was like iron sharpening iron,” he says. “When we’re in proximity with one another, we make each other better.”
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