Not long ago did Northern Californian Daniel Trudeau aka Pregnant release Regional Music (we wrote it up in April). His new collection Life Hard: I Try comes out September 6 on Mush Records, but is already streaming online.

Maybe it’s not common to associate glitchy, heavy sampling with a sensitive pop song. Regardless, that’s exactly Pregnant. Record after record, Trudeau’s songwriting gains amorphous, unreserved quality. This is fitting, seeing as the fourth LP Trudeau himself claims is “an ode to all the outsiders.” The music of Pregnant is something truly understood when experienced live, which happened for some in San Francisco a few months ago at the Yours Truly x Terroreyes.tv screening party:

Pregnant tourdates are TBA.