Helado Negro has teamed up with Reyna Tropical - the Los Angeles project of She Shreds founder and occasional Sleater-Kinney tour guitarist Fabi Reyna - for a new album that sounds like a very specific ice cream flavor you didn't know you needed. The duo's collaboration, titled Helado Tropical, will drop on July 17 via Psychic Hotline, and they've released a video for lead single "Tocando" that features the two of them trotting around a grocery store like they're trying to decide between sorbet and sherbet.
The album apparently started as a one-song affair, but someone forgot to tell the creative muses. "There was never a moment where we felt super stuck," Lange said in a press release, adding that the process was less about conversation and more about "existing in the same feeling." Reyna also chimed in, noting that the album helped her ground herself in "what movement means" and explore how sun, wind, and water can bring out different characters - which sounds a lot like a weather report if the weather report was a concept album.
Two California shows are already on the calendar: Los Angeles' John Anson Ford Theater on August 13 and San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens on August 15. A full tour will be announced later, presumably giving fans enough time to practice their grocery store trot. The tracklist includes gems like "Sensación," "Soledad," and "Un Calor" - because nothing says summer like a song about loneliness and another about heat.