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“You’re not alone, and I need to change”.

Teenage Halloween deal in strident, ripping power pop out of New Jersey. Newest album, Till You Return, serves up 13 songs that reach out a hand to those in need, whilst looking deep within to uncover personal failings and private yearnings. Gender identity, state abuses, finding solace in mental illness, and radical self awareness all vie for space among searing arrangements typified by heartfelt vocals and irrepressible energy.

The band, which operated as a ‘rotating cast’ in its early years, is now firmly entrenched as an essential four-piece comprised of Luk Henderiks (vocals, guitar) alongside Eli Frank (lead guitar, vocals), Tricia Marshall (bass, vocals) and Peter Gargano (drums). The quartet maintain the vital energy of their previous incarnations, but bring an even more focused punch. The result leaves greater room for Henderiks’s lyrics and renews the band’s sonic mission to uplift themselves and those around them. 

Praise for Teenage Halloween’s Till You Return (Released Oct 2023 on Don Giovanni):

“One of those bands… who never really sound like anyone else on the planet.” – BrooklynVegan

“As explosive as ever” – KEXP

“The kind of hooks that immediately announce themselves as earworms” – Paste Magazine

“bash[ing] and thrash[ing] with howling magnetic energy” – Stereogum

More info: linktr.ee/teenagehalloween

“Does it make you want to rock out? Does it make you want to cry?”
If the answer is both at once, you’re probably listening to Teens in Trouble. Specializing in
catchy hooks, heavy guitars, and disarmingly direct lyricism, the bright-blazing creative project
of Lizzie Killian makes anthemic, emotionally driven indie-rock that merges the snappy,
confessional style of Weezer with the Pixies’ soaring, fuzzed-out melodies. The band’s
ever-evolving sound is most informed, though, by Killian’s ability to refract these influences
through a prism of memory, melding past and present with sun-dappled clarity and a cathartic
vocal power that’s distinctly hers.
A California native who moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2019, Killian crafted Teens in
Trouble’s self-titled debut EP during the pandemic, on a quiet street in Asheville, where she

rekindled her love of songwriting following an extended hiatus. Sequestering herself away from
the world, Killian looked back on her years of youth in revolt and found her way forward as an
artist. All four tracks on the EP, from brooding “Old Starnes Cove Road” to the propulsive
“Decomposing,” emerged as if summoned from the ink-stained pages of an old journal.
The response was instantaneous and thrilling. Teens in Trouble released their self-titled debut
EP last fall via Asian Man Records, and has since been featured in Alternative Press,
BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Stereogum, and more. Two of the EP’s singles, “I’m Not Worried”
and “Decomposing,” have also been featured in the popular online battle royale game Fortnite.
Teens in Trouble is “ready to take the power-pop scene by storm,” wrote Consequence’s Jonah
Krueger. “Catchy, energetic, and equal parts Weezer and Jeff Rosenstock, rarely do artists hit
upon such gold while only having a cumulative nine minutes of material released.”
For more information, visit teensintrouble.net.