The Sewing Club share Complicated before the Nashville band's debut album Sew

The Sewing Club have put out a single called Complicated, the last piece of the run-up to their debut album. Sew arrives on 2 October through Born Losers Records, and the band have an autumn of dates behind it on both sides of the Atlantic.

The group is a Nashville four-piece: Hannah McElroy on guitar and vocals, Stephen Meaux on guitar and bass, Justin McKinney on guitar and Zach McCoy on drums and vocals. Under the Radar files them as fuzzed-out indie-pop and reaches for Momma, Soccer Mommy, Rocket and Wishy as reference points, which places them accurately enough in a scene that is currently deep in guitar bands doing exactly this.

Complicated came together on the road. The band were touring with Chokecherry at the time, and the song was sent to mixer Aron Kobayashi from a green room in Boston, which is about as unglamorous a picture of how a record gets finished as you could ask for.

The subject matter is harder than the sound. "My boyfriend was in rehab at the time, and this song was written in the midst of that," the band say, describing it as being about wanting to fix something for someone when you cannot. They also say it changed more than any other song on the record, which suggests the version out now is some distance from where it started.

Sew itself was written between home and the road and recorded with Calvin Lauber, a longtime collaborator. The band describe it as chasing the feeling of being in your twenties while your life quietly rearranges itself around you, friendships drifting and relationships ending without anything dramatic happening to mark it.

The influences they cite for the album are older and rougher than the comparisons the press reaches for: Veruca Salt, The Breeders, Wishy, Punchlove and Slow Pulp. The result is built on blown-out guitars and hooks, with the rough edges deliberately left where they are rather than sanded down for a debut.

They are clear-eyed about what that means. Rather than trying to make a perfect first album, they say, they made the record they wanted to hear, and they call Sew a snapshot of a band catching itself in the middle of becoming something. That is a low-stakes framing for a debut, and a shrewder one than most.

The album runs ten tracks: Complicated, Alright Ok, Bark, Drop C, Strange 2, Sympathy, Adore, Movie Star, Losing Me Now and Heavymetal. Bark came out at the end of August, when the band shared it alongside their first tour dates.

The touring is extensive for a band with no album out yet. It starts at Saint Vitus in New York on 26 September with Softcult, moves to the UK in mid-October for London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds and Brighton, takes in both days of Left of the Dial in Rotterdam on 23 and 24 October plus German, French and Dutch dates, then returns to the US in November for runs with Kurt Travis and Chase Petra through Texas, the south east and the midwest. Our earlier note said no tracklist or tour dates had been reported; both were published in full. Confirmed dates are tracked on the release calendar, and more from this scene is on the indie hub.