Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a video for “The Answer,” a stand-out from their acclaimed new album Fun House, out now via Saddle Creek. The video was directed by V Haddad and stars Duffy and Cherry Iocovozzi. 

Fun House is Duffy’s most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking a difficult, if much-needed, moment of pause. “When the pandemic happened, everything stopped,” recalls Duffy. “I had been touring consistently for five years, both on my own and playing in other people’s bands, so I wasn’t really writing a lot in between. It had been full pedal to the metal in terms of traveling and scheduling, which meant I really didn’t have a lot of time to think about how I felt or really check in with myself. Then, when the world basically stopped, it turned out to be the longest I’ve been alone in my entire life — without being in a relationship, without being on the road, without working myself to exhaustion — and the result was really like, holy shit. I slammed on the brakes and everything psychologically that I’d been pushing down and ignoring for the past few years suddenly flew to the foreground.”

Hand Habits has also announced a 2022 headline tour and support dates with Perfume Genius. All dates below.

2/10 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar * 

2/11 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room * 

2/12 – Palm Springs, CA @ The Alibi * 

2/15 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s Alley * 

2/17 – Eugene, OR @ Sessions Music Hall *

2/18 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern * 

2/19 – Tacoma, WA @ The Spanish Ballroom at the Elks Temple * 

2/20 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios * 

2/21 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret * 

2/23 – Arcata, CA @ The Miniplex * 

2/24 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s *

2/25 – San Francisco, CA @ Noise Pop Music Festival ~

2/26 – Novato, CA @ HopMonk Tavern *

3/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern ^

3/21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore ^

3/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^

3/24 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall ^

3/25 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ^

3/26 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre ^

3/28 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom ^

3/29 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ^

3/30 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line ^

4/1 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall ^

4/2 – Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre ^

4/3 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Rialto ^

4/5 – Boston, MA @ Royale ^

4/6 – Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts ^

4/7 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre ^ 

* w/ Gregory Uhlmann

~ w/ Tomberlin

^ w/ Perfume Genius

Photo Courtesy: Jacob Boll