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“I'm seeing...This House Is Creaking blowing up.”
— Eli Enis, Chasing Sundays
“It’s a disarming project from start to end, perfect in its gnarled, pedal-soaked fuzz and glitchy experimentation that ultimately make way for bouncy pop bits, resulting in a delirious bliss. They’ve been bringing those sounds to the stage as of late, having made fans out of Water From Your Eyes, feeble little horse, and DIIV, naturally.”
— Alternative Press
"...This House Is Creaking lives somewhere between the moody winters of midwest emo and the exhilarating glitches of hyperpop…"Something Else" continues on a rocky terrain of introspection and electronic distorted spirals. It's peculiar and playful.”
— Stereogum
“Chicago indie rockers This House Is Creaking experiment with lots of styles, but because they’re so clearly amusing themselves in the process, their songs sound less like lab results and more like a party.”
— Chicago Reader
“2 LAMP (lava lamp)”
— Pitchfork Selects
Chicago band This House is Creaking (THiC) are excited to share their new single “There’s A Stench In The Air.” As a general rule, strangeness spirals off of their music. This song has all of THiC's funny, jagged, guitar-laden edges, until the hooky chorus emerges as a sort of sunlit clearing, with a melody that attests to their capabilities as pop songwriters. It's a warm, buzzing track that grows in a new direction for the band, taking further steps down the unique path they've carved out for themselves. This single follows the fall’s release of their song “2 LAMP (lava lamp)”, which was chosen for Pitchfork Selects and Alternative Press A-Sides, and “Something Else,” which received acclaim from Stereogum and more. This song previews a new album out later this year, with further details coming soon.
“Have you ever had a strange smell in your apartment? No? Just us? Well, we fondly wrote a song about that and other daily annoyances that we experience,” says This House is Creaking. “Learning to love the places you exist in and making them work for you is the name of the game.”
LISTEN TO “THERE’S A STENCH IN THE AIR”
THiC kicked off 2026 with an opening slot for DIIV at Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL in January as part of the iconic Tomorrow Never Knows Festival’s 20th anniversary edition, and a performance at Ground Control Touring Presents: 4th Annual Abortion Access Benefit Series, alongside artists such as Good Flying Birds, Tobacco City, Action/Adventure, and Mass Text. Coming up this April, they’ll be performing at Schuba’s on April 11 with The Courts, And I You and Sick Day, and April 25 at Art of Gallery with Baby, Patter and Peeler. The band has received stamps of approval from several indie mainstays, including support slots for Water From Your Eyes and Hotline TNT, and supported Delaney Bailey on a Midwest tour last fall. Drawing on Miller’s roots in electronic music and Nauman’s skill as a guitarist (playing in bands such as Godly the Ruler and M.A.G.S.), the band’s mixture of sounds and inspirations is reflective of the expansive cross-pollination of the Chicago music community today. Within this thriving creative environment, This House is Creaking is becoming a scene favorite.
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THIS HOUSE IS CREAKING - LIVE 2026
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11 - Chicago, IL - Schuba’s
25 - Chicago, IL - Art Of Gallery
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