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Mei Semones has announced her second album along with a North American tour, the follow-up to her 2025 coming-of-age debut Animaru.Landing on January 15, Howl marks the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s first release for her new labels Verve and Interscope.
The lead single is out now alongside a Takuto Shimpo-directed music video, filmed in and around a Tokyo convenience store.Watch that below.The album’s titular song was written following one Fourth of July in Brooklyn, when fireworks exploded over Semones’s block, inciting a chorus of dog howls.
“Sometimes making music feels like howling into the universe,” she wrote in a statement.“I make music because I like it, because it feels instinctual—but it also connects me to people close and far.
I like to think of this music as my howl.”Starting on February 24, Semones will kick off a North American tour that will take her and Howl to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and her hometown of Ann Arbor.Scroll down for the full itinerary.Howl:01 Howl02 素直になりたい03 2 Hands04 Akumu05 Chichibu06 Towards Manhattan07 Senro08 Hoteru09 Korokke10 Monster11 Kira KiraMei Semones:10-15 New York, NY - Lincoln Center02-24 Boston, MA - The Sinclair *02-25 Portland, ME - SPACE *02-26 Montréal, Québec - Theatre Fairmount *02-27 Toronto, Ontario - Concert Hall *03-01 Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark *03-02 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall *03-03 Cleveland, OH - Mahall’s *03-05 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *03-06 New York, NY - Webster Hall *04-09 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club04-10 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle04-11 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West04-13 Nashville, TN - Third Man Records04-15 Dallas, TX - Texas Theatre04-16 Houston, TX - White Oak Upstairs04-17 Austin, TX - Mohawk04-20 Tucson, AZ - La Rosa04-21 San Diego, CA - Music Box04-23 Los Angeles, CA - Fonda Theatre04-24 San Francisco, CA - The Castro04-26 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater04-27 Vancouver, British Canada - Commodore04-28 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre04-30 Bo...