Richmond, Virginia’s Wes Parker has officially pulled back the curtain on his debut solo album, Super Rare, due Friday, June 5 via Big Machine Rock. The 20-track collection follows his pair of fan-favorite 2025 EPs, fantom and Splinter, and arrives as Parker continues a US headlining tour before linking up with indie-folk staple Shakey Graves in June.

To mark the announcement, Parker has dropped a new single and official music video for “Little Birdie,” a four-chord psych-rock/surf-rock daydream about watching something in your life fall apart and feeling, somehow, both gutted and free. “I always loved songs with choruses that just had one or two notes. It kind of whips me into a frenzy,” Parker says. “Something about the chorus kind of reminds me of Blink-182.” Watch the official video here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Wes+Parker+Little+Birdie

If 2025’s EPs hinted at Parker’s range, Super Rare is where he finally throws the whole notebook on the table — sketches, doodles, suburban observations and all. “Super Rare feels like the closest I’ve gotten to putting my full personality on record,” he shares. “People describe it sounding like 90s alternative rock, bands like Radiohead, Muse, and some modern day sounds, like MJ Lenderman, The Shins, Mac DeMarco. It’s a melancholic record, but I wanted to let some of my comedy background into the world of the album through interludes from a fictional radio host named DJ Charlie-Horse.”

That mix of the heavy and the absurd is the album’s secret weapon. The earthy, harmonica-led opener “Tattoo” wades through an opiate past and the ghosts attached to it. “Dinosaur Park” reckons with the true-crime tragedy of Susan Powell, anchored by the album’s most gutting refrain: “Mommy stayed the night where the crystals grow.” “Spider Legs” oscillates between muscular rock riffs and a Radiohead-esque chorus about being caught in someone else’s web. Then there’s the sing-along closer “Split Ends” — Parker’s only co-write on the otherwise self-produced LP, written with Illiterate Light’s Jake Cochran on a dare to write a “bad song” that turned out, inconveniently, to be great.

Balancing it out: the bedroom-pop cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” the banjo-laden cautionary fable “Sushi King” (about a man who loves sushi to literal death by mercury poisoning), the cheeky ’90s indie-rock strut of “Bad Doggie,” and the welcome cheese of DJ Charlie-Horse’s interludes (“If you’re now just joining us…the water’s just fine. You can just slip on in here like a piece of spaghetti.”)

Parker — formerly of Richmond indie outfit Camp Howard, which amicably split in 2021 — wrote and recorded Super Rare over two years, tracking demos at home on bass, drums, guitar, and piano before cutting the songs live in the studio with his band. The result is a record he describes simply: “Super raw. Completely unfiltered.”

Super Rare Tracklist:
1. (intro)
2. Tattoo
3. Dinosaur Park
4. Little Birdie
5. spaghetti (interlude)
6. Catamaran
7. Eggshellz
8. Bad Doggie
9. super rare (interlude)
10. Methedog
11. sushi king
12. Cut The Grass (feat. Jessica Lea Mayfield)
13. instead of bubbles (interlude)
14. spider legs
15. murder on the dancefloor (demo)
16. Salute (The Show)
17. keep groovin (interlude)
18. be how it used to
19. Split Ends
20. (outro)

Wes Parker Tour Dates:
Apr 24 — Charleston, SC @ Stu Fest
Apr 25 — Asheville, NC @ Static Age
Apr 26 — Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Apr 28 — Chattanooga, TN @ Cherry Street Tavern
Apr 29 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement
May 1 — Newport, KY @ Southgate House Revival
May 2 — Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
May 3 — Detroit, MI @ Lager House
May 4 — Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
May 6 — Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe
May 8 — Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
May 9 — Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb’s Lounge
May 10 — New London, CT @ Garde Arts Center
May 12 — New York, NY @ Night Club 101
Jun 4 — Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom ^
Jun 5 — Kansas City, MO @ The Truman ^
Jun 6 — Rockford, IL @ Coronado Performing Arts Center ^
Jun 8 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre ^
Jun 10 — King of Prussia, PA @ Concerts Under the Stars ^
Jun 12 — Richmond, VA @ The Camel *
^ Supporting Shakey Graves
* Album Release Show

Pre-order Super Rare ahead of its June 5 release via Big Machine Rock, watch the “Little Birdie” video, and grab tickets before Parker’s headlining run wraps and he hits the road with Shakey Graves.