Overview
- Sadie Dupuis announced 1331 on Wednesday and released three preview tracks — “I Am Now Completely Invisible,” “Art Institute,” and “Watermelon Manicure” — ahead of the mixtape’s July 10 release on Exploding In Sound.
- Dupuis wrote most of the material in spring 2024 but tracking was delayed by a June 2024 bike collision that shattered her fretting-arm elbow and required prolonged rehab, which stretched recording across the following year.
- She recorded and engineered 1331 entirely by herself, her first fully solo DIY Sad13 record in 15 years, completing 13 concise songs that run roughly one minute each.
- The mixtape includes a mayor-critical track called “People’s Loser,” a song Dupuis says grew out of anger over Philadelphia’s bike-lane decisions, and she foregrounds those civic themes in the new material.
- Dupuis will promote the release with July shows, including July 9 in Brooklyn and July 10 in Philadelphia, and the project signals a return to short-song experiments and grassroots indie production that could matter for small labels and lifelong independent artists.