N8NOFACE – I Hope It’s Ok
“The song “I Hope It’s Ok”, may seem to be an encouragement, but is actually an admission of guilt by N8NOFACE. The new release is from the Long Beach based synth-punk artist that will also serve as a preview for his first full length album, Tomorrow’s World which is set for release on October 16 via Stones Throw. The entire album was produced by Dave Sitek, with features by Hudson Mohawke, Angélica Garcia and Nick Zinner. We covered his last single with Sitek, Paranoid (W29), back in July.
The song was created during a freestyle session when N8 allowed himself to express those things he never shows others; the feelings he lives with that are not typical from an outsider’s view. As N8 explained, some of this reserve comes from being the kid whose friends and family told him to stop playing Daniel Johnston or Suicide. “When I am surrounded by artists I get nervous,” N8 said.
That same sense of uncertainty is reflected in the video directed by Eyedress (who also collaborated on music with N8).
N8 believes that is the reason the title of the song has such significance. Tomorrow’s world was taken from the former British television program based upon emerging technologies and sciences. This is the television program where N8 first heard Kraftwerk become popular among a larger audience. N8 has referred to this record as what he thinks punks and street kids will listen to in 2077. That description does not alter what “I Hope It’s Ok” really is: a much less publicized and personal plea from an individual that spent 17 years combating addiction and is just beginning to direct that energy toward something positive.
Tour dates:
North America (album release day, then with Ho99o9 and Slay Squad)
- Oct. 16 / Los Angeles, CA / Stones Throw 30 Festival
- Oct. 22 / San Diego, CA / SOMA Sidestage
- Oct. 23 / Garden Grove, CA / Garden Grove Amp
- Oct. 24 / Berkeley, CA / 924 Gilman
- Oct. 25 / Roseville, CA / Goldfield Trading Post
- Oct. 27 / Seattle, WA / Substation Seattle
- Oct. 28 / Portland, OR / Hawthorne Theatre
- Oct. 29 / Boise, ID / The Shredder
- Oct. 31 / Denver, CO / The Oriental
- Nov. 1 / Colorado Springs, CO / Black Sheep
- Nov. 3 / Milwaukee, WI / X-Ray Arcade
- Nov. 4 / Chicago, IL / Reggie’s
- Nov. 5 / Cleveland, OH / Mahall’s
- Nov. 6 / Detroit, MI / The Magic Stick
- Nov. 8 / Toronto, ON / Lee’s Palace
- Nov. 9 / Montréal, QC / Les Foufounes Electriques
- Nov. 10 / Cambridge, MA / Middle East, Downstairs
- Nov. 12 / New Kensington, PA / Preserving Underground
- Nov. 13 / New York, NY / Saint Vitus
- Nov. 14 / Hartford, CT / Webster Underground
- Nov. 15 / Philadelphia, PA / First Unitarian Church
- Nov. 17 / Washington, DC / Black Cat
- Nov. 18 / Asheville, NC / Revival
- Nov. 20 / Miami, FL / Churchill’s Pub
- Nov. 21 / Winter Park, FL / Conduit
- Nov. 22 / Atlanta, GA / Masquerade, Purgatory
- Nov. 24 / Dallas, TX / Trees
- Nov. 25 / Austin, TX / Come & Take It Live
- Nov. 27 / El Paso, TX / Lowbrow Palace
- Nov. 28 / Tucson, AZ / 191 Toole
- Nov. 29 / Phoenix, AZ / Rebel Lounge
