SAD13 SHARES "LOCUST RELEASER" VIDEO + "MEAN, VINDICTIVE, ARROGANT"

Posted on July 7th, 2026

Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, one of the most prolific songwriters and critically lauded guitarists of her time, recently announced her first Sad13 project in 5+ years. 1331, a 13-track mixtape of “1 minute long-ish songs,” will be out on Friday, July 10th under Sadie’s electropop moniker and alter ego, Sad13. A few weeks ago she shared the album’s first three tracks, and today she shares two more ahead of release on Friday. Activists for housing and trans rights were deploying insects, admired on alt-R&B soundscape “Locust Releaser,” while Dupuis is lamenting leftist factionalism on shimmery “Mean, Vindictive, Arrogant.” Check out the songs, and the self-directed video for “Locust Releaser” now.

“I wrote ‘Locust Releaser’ at the start of the cicada double-brood emergence in 2024, considering biblical plagues and two individual cases of housing advocates releasing bees and cockroaches,” explains Dupuis. “In the years since, I’ve read stories of maggots, crickets, and other critters released to protest genocide, transphobes, and police. Bugs: innocent, but I admire the clarity of conviction needed to incite nuisance.”

1331 will be out this Friday, July 10th via Exploding In Sound Records, the label that released Speedy Ortiz’s Sports EP in 2012.