[Cover photo credit to Chris Barron]
‘90s Alt-Rock band the Spin Doctors have announced their first studio LP in 12 years, Face Full of Cake, out April 11, 2025 via Capitol Records. They have also released the album’s first single “Still A Gorilla”and its accompanying music video. “Still A Gorilla” showcases the same sense of humor the band have always been known for.
To celebrate the record, the band will play an album release show at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl on April 12. To get tickets and to see a full list of upcoming shows, please visit spindoctors.com.
Vocalist Chris Barron says about the single:
‘Still A Gorilla’ is a heavy-duty track about what it is to be human. [Drummer] Aaron [Comess] had that piece of music around for quite a long time, and whenever he and I sat down to try and write some lyrics to it, it just never quite came together.
But then Comess sent Barron the Swede’s aforementioned 2005 song as a reference point and things came together.
He continues:
Aaron was like, ‘A vibe like this would be cool,’ and the humor of that song gave me the entree into the song, so I just sat down and wrote that in an hour.
The followup to 2013’s If the River Was Whiskey, the upcoming LP marks their debut on Capitol Records and the first Spin Doctors record with new bassist Jack Daley who joined the band full-time in 2021.
Face Full of Cake can trace its origins back to the early days of the pandemic, but after several writing sessions, including time spent at the Vermont studio space of Phish’s Mike Gordon, the album began to fully take shape. Recorded at Daley’s Asbury Park, NJ studio, the project followed “a laidback and low-pressure recording process.”
Aaron Commess says:
We weren’t really thinking of it as a record. We’ve gone through a lot of phases in our 35 years, and sometimes things really gel and sometimes they’re just extremely difficult. When we made this record, we captured a moment where it felt effortless. There’s a really fresh energy in the tracks — a sense of us discovering the songs as we played them.
Tour Dates:
February 22 – Saint Paul, MN – Rock From The Heart
March 1 – Suquamish, WA – Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort
April 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl
May 25 – Allston, MA – Boston Calling Festival
June 5 – Park City, UT – Egyptian Theatre
June 6 – Park City, UT – Egyptian Theatre
June 7 – Park City, UT – Egyptian Theatre
June 8 – Park City, UT – Egyptian Theatre
