Garage rock outfit CHICO DETOUR returns with “Crying At My Party,” the first single from their upcoming sophomore EP, due out this Spring via local label Den Tapes. The track doesn’t arrive politely. It moves forward with purpose; up-tempo, insistent, and emotionally unresolved carrying melancholy without stopping to explain itself.
An instrumental, “Crying At My Party” lets the band strip things down and put their nerves on display. With no lyrics to lean on, the song lives and dies on feel. The lead guitar takes center stage, bending and pulling at the melody until it starts to sound like a voice direct, exposed, and slightly dangerous. It’s a crying guitar, but it never collapses. It keeps moving.
Rooted in late-’50s and early-’60s garage and surf traditions, the track nods to a lineage where simplicity was the point and taste was the test. But this isn’t nostalgia-as-costume. The familiarity comes from recognition, not imitation: like stumbling into a feeling you already know and realizing it still has teeth.
Rhythmically, the song pushes the body forward even as the mood stays heavy. The groove is tight and physical, built around a focused downbeat that refuses to sit still. Organ tones and ghosted harmonies hover in the background, adding a chapel-lit haze without spelling anything out. About two minutes in, the song swells, everything locking together for a brief, triumphant surge, before dropping back into motion.
“Some feelings don’t need explaining,” says the band. “They just need to be carried honestly.”
“Crying At My Party” opens a larger campaign that will unfold over the coming months, with additional singles leading into the full EP release. Chico Detour will celebrate the single with a release show alongside Forty Feet Tall and The Maya Experience, grounding the track where it hits hardest: on a stage and in motion
“Crying At My Party” will release on Friday February 13th, 2026.
see CHICO DETOUR live:
Feb 27 – Seattle WA @ Sunset Tavern w/ Forty Feet Tall + The Maya Experience
Mar 28 – Boise ID @ Neurolux – Treefort Music Fest
Apr 17 – Seattle WA @ Clock-Out Lounge w/ Gus Baldwin & the Sketch + Abbey Keanne & the Shadowband [Ticket Link]
Apr 24 – Seattle WA @ Tim’s Tavern w/ Sexfaces + The Bug Nasties
Chico Detour doesn’t arrive so much as it locks in. The groove sets, the guitars repeat, the room tilts a degree to the left. Everything feels gritty and unpolished on purpose energy scraped close to the bone, rhythm held tight enough to make tension visible. The songs don’t rush toward release. They circle, insist, and stay alert. Motion without escape. Feeling without explanation.
The band came together through fixation, not planning. Sebastian Felipé brought the songs, but the shape appeared through alignment: Michelle pulling a voice out of the noise, Brennan dropping the low end exactly where it belongs, and Christopher stepping in as the band’s garage-rock compass tuned to freak-beat psychedelia and repetition, holding the music in place while it moves. Jacob anchors it all with a drummer’s sense of inevitability, keeping everything upright even as it strains forward. They grew out of the same Seattle after-hours current, house shows, borrowed gear, rooms that rang too loud learning when to push and when to hold.
During the Too Easy era, Chico Detour tested the frame and established themselves inside the Seattle garage rock scene sharing stages with Mark Sultan, Detroit Cobras, The Okmoniks, Quasi, The Wimps, The Macks, Screen Frogs, and Sex Mex, with stops at KEXP and Neumos. The repetition held. The energy stayed rough. The current kept reaching, like it knew where it was going.
Now the band moves into Wash It Down. Releasing via Den Tapes in late Spring, the record sharpens everything groove as ritual, repetition as focus, tone as language. This year finds Chico Detour carrying that frame outward: marking the release with a single show alongside Forty Feet Tall, bringing new material to Treefort Music Festival, sharing bills with Gus Baldwin & The Sketch, and taking the songs on the road south, east, wherever they’ll have ‘em.
Chico Detour doesn’t polish the feeling away; they repeat it until it tells the truth, then refuse to let it settle.
visit CHICO DETOUR online:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/chicodetour
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chicodetour/
Bandcamp: https://chicodetour.bandcamp.com/music
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chicodetourmusic
Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/48226536/u
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/chico-detour/1750196207
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4M7VJebvGOX9LRhZlDq9am
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