New Sub Pop signees Jo Passed detail debut album Their Prime and offer up lead track "MDM"

Eleanor Petry directs the visuals for the album's lead single "MDM", which bandleader Jo Hirabayashi has offered a few words about: "Something something, on my phone too much, something something, Marshall McLuhan, something something, Stanley Kubrick, something something, the medium is the message, something something, ouch my insides."

The full-length follows Jo Passed's EP releases Up and Out and focuses on themes of time, identity, and city life.

"It's me owning my worst nightmare,” Hirabayashi says. "A lot of the Jo Passed project has been about confronting fears. I was afraid to move away from Vancouver to Montreal on my own. Afraid to leave musical relationships I had. Afraid to bare the full responsibility of a project. I've been putting out records, and not ones anyone's necessarily heard. Being open about those fears is a good way of dealing with them. You end up at this point where you hit 30 and you're like, 'Oh what happened? Am I done? Did I not activate my main creative energy?' It's a ridiculous idea but 30 feels a little like 1000 in rock 'n' roll terms."

Tracklist:

1. Left
2. MDM
3. Glass
4. Undemo
5. Facetook
6. Repair
7. R.I.P.
8. Millennial Trash Blues
9. You, Prime
10. Sold
11. Another Nowhere
12. Places Please