Shaed - Spinning Out

SHAED weren’t immune to spinning out. The trio of Chelsea Lee and twin brothers Max and Spencer Ernst had been living in a whirlwind for a long time – a long, circuitous, sometimes stop-start arc that included meeting as teenagers playing around D.C., living and writing at home together, and a surprise breakout hit in 2018’s “Trampoline.”

Their new album, Spinning Out is the sound of Shaed’s core ethos, their connection as family and musicians. Inspired by new love and parenthood, the album cohered as a collection of snapshots and vignettes, reflecting on belonging and connection from all different angles. Across moving ballads and graceful bops alike – including the emotionally bare title track, the soaring “Rocket In The Sky,” and the hazy earworm of lead single “Everybody Knows I’m High” (debuted in SHAED’s February Kimmel performance) – the band catalogs all the trials, euphoria, confusion, and hope that ran through a messy few years.

Heavyweight vinyl produced by BMG Records in 2024.

TRACKLISTING:

1. We Live We Die
2. Maybe I Don’t Know How
3. Palm Trees
4. Everybody Knows I’m High
5. Rocket in the Sky
6. You Stole My Favorite Song
7. By Myself
8. Spinning Out
9. Love is Painful
10. Everybody Knows I’m High (bedroom version)
11. Shapes