Giant Drag to release first album in seven years next week

Cali indie-rock outfit, Giant Drag are set to return with a new album this year.

The band, fronted by Annie Hardy, will release Waking Up Is Hard To Do on 5 March via Full Psycho Records.

It’s the group’s first album since 2005 and follow-up to previous effort Hearts And Unicorns.

Hardy wrote in the press release:

“This LP has been a total curse on my existence; every time I team up with a record company or person to get this thing out something goes wrong and it just ends up sitting there like it has for 7 years now, so I am putting this thing out myself this coming Tuesday 5th March. I want to engage people once again and make the rest of the world care as well.

Basically the last couple years of my life were pure hell and I spent it (and my “success” period of GD) a slave to prescription drugs, only to go to rehab last October to get clean. Legal battles were won and health problems have remained and I’m kind of getting honest with everyone for the first time. It’s already turning out to be a wild ride and I think things will keep getting better. I hope if you survive listening to this record you’ll be excited as I am about what’s to come.”