Brooklyn garage rock band Le Big Zero will offer their new album this April.

Announced today, A Proper Mess will be released on April 8 via Know Hope Records. The first single from the nine-track album titled “Horror Movie Pie Fight” comes with a music video directed by Jeanette D. Moses, who worked on videos for A Place To Bury Strangers and Thick.

Moses said this about working on the video, which can be seen below:

“Michael told me that the song was loosely based on a person writing a horror movie, a studio buying the rights, promptly ruining it and an unexpected "event" happening at the film's wrap party. The song clearly had a sense of humor, which gave me freedom to get a little campy with the music video treatment. We filmed “Horror Movie Pie Fight” in a day and had three locations. The process was extremely collaborative, but they also trusted me to execute my vision for the song. 13/10 would work with the band again!”

Vocalist Michael Pasuit said this about the new cut:

“This one was written in the room with all of us contributing the instrumental approach in equal parts. Initially, that verse part just kept repeating. I actually filed under "hmpf" on my phone to listen back to. After we toyed around with it again and got no further, I again named it HMPF. Then I started wondering what would happen if that actually stood for something. It was completely random that "Horror Movie Pie Fight" emerged. Just sounded like a silly concept. So the lyrics were written about a person that writes a great horror film, gets bought by a studio that ruins it, and then get murdered by real monsters/vampires/etc. during the wrap party. It's 100% absurd.
Since we were already leaning sillier with this one, and we knew some sort of "Part B" was needed to break-up the verses, I actually took inspiration from the video game Mega Man 2. I was down a YouTube rabbit hole where the intro music to that game came on. Unique to the song is that Carolina and I don't harmonize. It's the only song that's sung in parallel octaves instead. I had been listening to a lot of Better Oblivion Community Center, that project with Connor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers. It struck me odd that throughout the duration of the album, they're just singing in unison. Very sparing harmony parts. But their two voices together were the identity of the album. When we didn't come upon a decent harmony for HMPF, we decided to go that route as an experiment, and we really liked the result.”

Pre-orders for A Proper Mess, which follows their 2019 debut album Ollie Oxen Free, are live right now. “Horror Movie Pie Fight” is out on digital services right now.

A Proper Mess tracklisting

1.) All Bark

2.) Anthem

3.) Sequel

4.) Horror Movie Pie Fight

5.) Dumb Summer

6.) Beach Seance

7.) Music City (The Next New Thing)

8.) You Don't Say

9.) Coda