Madi Diaz has announced her new album, Fatal Optimist, out October 10th via ANTI-, its lead single/video, “Feel Something,” and a North American Tour, on sale July 25th at 10am local time. Diaz is an artist who cuts to the emotional core of her own experiences with startling precision. Fatal Optimist could be considered the final chapter in her heartache trilogy, and the rawest entry. This is the Madi Diaz album most likely to haunt you with its starkness. Check out the lead single “Feel Something” below…
After ending a relationship with someone she once envisioned marrying, Diaz turned away from everyone and everything she knew and took herself to an island. This heartbreak felt different. Every one of them does. Admittedly, she was embarrassed to be in this position again. “I put myself on an island,” Diaz wrote in her journal. “I was already describing myself as an emotional island swimming in so much of an ocean of feelings. It was the perfect physical manifestation, alone with all of my disappointment.” She began to navigate isolation and her time alone emerged as a powerful, insightful period of introspection. Rage, embarrassment and romantic grief shifted into inner wholeness and the pieces of Fatal Optimist started falling into place. “I didn’t know that I hadn’t chosen myself yet,” she says. “The only person I’m never gonna leave is myself.”
Fatal Optimist Tracklist:
1. Hope Less
2. Ambivalence
3. Feel Something
4. Good Liar
5. Lone Wolf
6. Heavy Metal
7. If Time Does What It’s Supposed To
8. Flirting
9. Why’d You Have To Bring Me Flowers
10. Time Difference
11. Fatal Optimist
Madi Diaz Tour Dates:
Sun. Aug. 3 – Portland, ME – Back Cove Festival
Fri. Aug. 8 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Festival
Sat. Aug. 9 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Festival
Fri. Sept. 12 – New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall *
Fri. Sept. 26 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater (The September Shows)
Sat. Sept. 27 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre (The September Shows)
Sat. Oct. 11 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
Mon. Oct. 13 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern Cafe & Music Hall
Tue. Oct. 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at The Fillmore Philadelphia
Thu. Oct. 16 – Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage
Fri. Oct. 17 – Lancaster, PA @ West Art
Sat. Oct. 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Mon. Oct. 20 – Somerville, MA @ Arts at the Armory
Tue. Oct. 21 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall
Thu. Oct. 23 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark
Sat. Oct. 25 – Evanston, IL @ SPACE
Sun. Oct. 26 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Mon. Oct. 27 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Thu. Nov. 13 – Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey Arts Center
Fri. Nov. 14 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Sat. Nov. 15 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
Tue. Nov. 18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Thu. Nov. 20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Highland Park Ebell
Fri. Nov. 21 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s
* supporting Caamp
