DANA AND ALDEN ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM SPEEDO OUT JUNE 27TH VIA CONCORD JAZZ
SHARE LEAD SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO “DON’T RUN AWAY”
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(May 16, 2025) - Eugene, Oregon musical duo Dana and Alden announce their new album Speedo, out June 27th via Concord Jazz. Their first offering on their new label, Speedo is a leap into the unknown, chasing novel sounds they’ve never heard before in collaboration with multi-
instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire Charif Megarbane. Recorded over a rainy, feverish two-week stretch holed up in Lisbon, Dana, Alden and Charif experimented with rare synthesizers and analog toys to craft an imaginative new full-length that fully realizes the imaginative ideas presented on their first two albums. Still rooted in jazz, Speedo gets intentionally “messy”, folding in elements of funk, indie rock, pop, hip-hop and more, as shown in their recent Elevator Music performance.
As a first taste of Speedo, Dana and Alden are sharing the album’s lead single “Don’t Run Away” today, along with an accompanying music video that chronicles the band’s travels on tour filmed by Alden and Nick Liden. A synth-driven dancefloor jam which features UK social media personalities MrBruv and Faye, the song is an angsty journey about the frightening feeling of committing to love that crescendos into a euphoric disco outro.
The duo just wrapped up an extensive North American tour with Remi Wolf and on the heels of Speedo’s release, will head off to Europe for a series of headline shows and festival dates throughout July.
The two brothers, Dana and Alden McWayne, the latter of which you may recognize as @gucci_pineapple, both grew up enthralled with the music that surrounded them in Eugene, from Bob Dylan and Talking Heads, to the Grateful Dead and familial Irish folk. They first made music together as a duo with their 2021 debut EP Brothers, which unfurled into 2023’s Quiet Music For Young People featuring viral breakout track “Let’s Go to Trader Joe’s (featuring Cinya Khan)” and last year’s Coyote, You’re My Star. The brothers and their backing band – Andrew Mitchell on bass, Ebba Dankel on vocals and keys, Eli Torgersen on vocals and guitar, and Salim Charvet on sax and synths – have found their groove having toured with Benny Sings, and the aforementioned just-wrapped dates with Remi Wolf.
While Speedo is freeform in its mutations from song-to song both sonically and thematically, the body of work as a whole represents two brothers and musicians coming into their own. The album’s imagination also leads to moments of clear-eyed focus. “Making music as a political weapon is one of our main motivations,” Dana says, highlighting album opener “Norm”, which was written for scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein, who has long championed the Palestinian cause. “This album is a continuation of our politics, which have always been anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.”
Check out “Don’t Run Away” above, see below for more details on Speedo, and stay tuned for more from Dana and Alden coming soon.
Upcoming Dana and Alden Live Dates:
7/7 - Paris, France @ PopUp!
7/8 - London, England @ Jazz Cafe
7/10 - Cologne, Germany @ Artheater
7/11 - Rotterdam, Netherlands @ North Sea Jazz Festival
7/13 - Ghent, Belgium @ Gent Jazz
7/15 - Montreux, Switzerland @ Montreux Jazz Festival
7/16 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Zoom
7/18 - Pori, Finland @ Pori Jazz Festival
7/19 - Molde, Norway @ Molde Jazz Festival
7/21 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ Skeppet GBG
7/22 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Kollektivet Livet 7/24 - Hamburg, Germany @ Hebebühne
7/25 - Berlin, Germany @ Kantine am Berghain
7/26 - Heidelberg, Germany @ Metropolink Festival
Dana and Alden
Speedo
June 27, 2025
Concord Jazz
1. Norm
2. Lisbon in Rain
3. Melange
4. Don’t Run Away
5. Fisherman’s Dream
6. Wyckoff Deli Chicken Over Rice
7. Childhood Crush
8. Obsidian
9. Leila
10. Super Beaver Full Moon Love Song
11. Rick Pablo
12. Daydrinking in Springfield
13. Kelp Forest Palace
14. Charif’s Theme
15. Why Do You Even Talk to Me
16. Cacio e Pepe
17. Speedo
18. Baby, You’re Gonna Miss That Plane
