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Paw(Sunkiss Records)
Add date: 10.14.2025
Release date: 10.10.2025
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Avery Tucker’s debut solo album, Paw, marks a profound turning point in a musical career already steeped in radical self-discovery, raw honesty, and boundless curiosity. Known to many as one half of indie rock duo Girlpool, Tucker now emerges on his own terms—with a voice honed by transformation, a guitar still pulsing with obsession, and a set of songs that burn with clarity, introspection, and emotional courage.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, at age seven, Tucker begged his parents for an acoustic guitar from the local toy shop after seeing Joan Armatrading perform at a nearby Borders Books, an image of possibility that lit the first spark.
That spark grew into Girlpool, the DIY songwriting duo he formed with Harmony Tividad in 2013. Girlpool made 5 albums, toured for nearly a decade, and in 2018 Tucker came out as transgender. In 2022, Tucker felt the need to go solo and the group disbanded.
That crucible birthed Paw. Across its tracklist, Tucker returns to the essence of why he first fell in love with music: not as identity, not as performance, but as a pure medium for truth-seeking. What emerged is a collection that manages to feel both biographical and ambiguous—like a journal that asks more questions than it answers, drawing listeners into its emotional landscape without ever pinning them down.
The album pulses with themes of self-criticism, spiritual longing, grief, and hard-won compassion. On songs “Like I’m Young” and “Sunkiss,” Tucker wrestles with fears of inadequacy and romantic loss, but also offers up grace. Songs like “In the Smoke” look backward—toward the end of Girlpool and a friendship forever signifigant—while others like “Rust” capture the stunned drift of life in its aftermath. “I felt like I was in a river, having a tantrum, fighting against its natural flow,” he says.
Recorded between Livingston, Montana and Encino, CA, Paw was shaped in collaboration with friends and sonic kindred spirits: co-producer Alaska Reid, producer A. G. Cook (on “My Life Isn’t Leaving You”), Katie Gavin of MUNA (feat. on “Angel”) and Aaron Maine of Porches, who sings and produces on “Baby Broke.” Reid, in particular, played a key role in helping Tucker remain instinctual and avoid self-censorship. “She encouraged me to not shy away from the rawness I had written. Instead of dressing the songs in production, she pushed me to serve the spirit of the songs,” he says. Together, they arrived at an earthy minimalism—an approach that echoes Neil Young, Gillian Welch, and Lucinda Williams, but is shot through with the hazy energy of LA summers, the tension of domestic dissonance, and the solitude and healing of change.
The title Paw came from a game Reid and Tucker played, in which they considered whether they had ‘paws, wings, hooves, or talons’? Both chose paws. “They’re vulnerable but powerful,” he explains, invoking the personality of his songwriting. The cover, a macro image of Tucker’s dog’s paw, felt elemental: “It’s where you meet the earth, where you meet your own experience.” That balance—of groundedness and grace, of creaturely instinct and careful craft—defines the record itself.
This is Avery Tucker’s adult work. It doesn't shout, but it speaks volumes. With Paw, he proves that musical reinvention is possible—not as a pivot, but as a return to origin. A voice, reshaped. A vision, clarified. A songwriter, fully revealed.
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Spotify
Tidal
TikTok
YouTube
Avery Tucker’s debut solo album, Paw, marks a profound turning point in a musical career already steeped in radical self-discovery, raw honesty, and boundless curiosity. Known to many as one half of indie rock duo Girlpool, Tucker now emerges on his own terms—with a voice honed by transformation, a guitar still pulsing with obsession, and a set of songs that burn with clarity, introspection, and emotional courage.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, at age seven, Tucker begged his parents for an acoustic guitar from the local toy shop after seeing Joan Armatrading perform at a nearby Borders Books, an image of possibility that lit the first spark.
That spark grew into Girlpool, the DIY songwriting duo he formed with Harmony Tividad in 2013. Girlpool made 5 albums, toured for nearly a decade, and in 2018 Tucker came out as transgender. In 2022, Tucker felt the need to go solo and the group disbanded.
That crucible birthed Paw. Across its tracklist, Tucker returns to the essence of why he first fell in love with music: not as identity, not as performance, but as a pure medium for truth-seeking. What emerged is a collection that manages to feel both biographical and ambiguous—like a journal that asks more questions than it answers, drawing listeners into its emotional landscape without ever pinning them down.
The album pulses with themes of self-criticism, spiritual longing, grief, and hard-won compassion. On songs “Like I’m Young” and “Sunkiss,” Tucker wrestles with fears of inadequacy and romantic loss, but also offers up grace. Songs like “In the Smoke” look backward—toward the end of Girlpool and a friendship forever signifigant—while others like “Rust” capture the stunned drift of life in its aftermath. “I felt like I was in a river, having a tantrum, fighting against its natural flow,” he says.
Recorded between Livingston, Montana and Encino, CA, Paw was shaped in collaboration with friends and sonic kindred spirits: co-producer Alaska Reid, producer A. G. Cook (on “My Life Isn’t Leaving You”), Katie Gavin of MUNA (feat. on “Angel”) and Aaron Maine of Porches, who sings and produces on “Baby Broke.” Reid, in particular, played a key role in helping Tucker remain instinctual and avoid self-censorship. “She encouraged me to not shy away from the rawness I had written. Instead of dressing the songs in production, she pushed me to serve the spirit of the songs,” he says. Together, they arrived at an earthy minimalism—an approach that echoes Neil Young, Gillian Welch, and Lucinda Williams, but is shot through with the hazy energy of LA summers, the tension of domestic dissonance, and the solitude and healing of change.
The title Paw came from a game Reid and Tucker played, in which they considered whether they had ‘paws, wings, hooves, or talons’? Both chose paws. “They’re vulnerable but powerful,” he explains, invoking the personality of his songwriting. The cover, a macro image of Tucker’s dog’s paw, felt elemental: “It’s where you meet the earth, where you meet your own experience.” That balance—of groundedness and grace, of creaturely instinct and careful craft—defines the record itself.
This is Avery Tucker’s adult work. It doesn't shout, but it speaks volumes. With Paw, he proves that musical reinvention is possible—not as a pivot, but as a return to origin. A voice, reshaped. A vision, clarified. A songwriter, fully revealed.