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title: "Gerard Way’s Solo Career: A Sonical Romance or Break Up?"
url: https://altwire.net/gerard-way-reveals-album-art/
author: "Altwire Staff"
published: 2014-08-18T11:58:45+00:00
updated: 2026-11-11T03:23:29+00:00
categories: ["News"]
tags: ["Gerard Way", "Indie", "My Chemical Romance", "Pop", "Punk & Emo"]
source: "AltWire (altwire.net)"
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# Gerard Way’s Solo Career: A Sonical Romance or Break Up?

*By Altwire Staff · August 18, 2014*

After an extremely successful era with My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way is getting his solo career started! His debut solo album *Hesitant Alien* is due out on September 30th via Warner Bros. Records. Pre-order of *Hesitant Alien* is starting tomorrow, August 19, [HERE](https://www.gerardway.com/)and includes an instant download of the new single "No Shows". Its music video will also be released tomorrow.

For a first taste listen to "Action Cat":

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gbk72F10Vgo)

Gerard Way's creativity seems to have no limits. Next to his music career with My Chemical Romance, he is also known as a visual artist and writer of several comic books and Marvel just hired him to write a new Spider-Man comic. The former MCR lead singer definitely has the potential to create something big, but will he also succeed as a solo act? His description of the album's style sounds very promising:

> *“I wanted to make the small things sound big. My intention was to make 100 percent uncompromised art, using the currently least radio-friendly instrument, the guitar. I knew there would be lots of fuzz pedals. I knew I would play Fender instruments. I knew I would look at who my guitar heroes were in art school, Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein, and I drew a lot of influence from shoe-gaze and Britpop. I want the record to sonically galvanize people.”*

Gerard seems to follow the new trend of a guitar-driven style à la Black Keys, Royal Blood or Arctic Monkeys instead of choosing the more electronic sound we last heard of MCR on *Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys* - this is gonna be interesting!

Maybe he will debut some new songs during the secret show he has just announced on Twitter:

> Wednesday. Portsmouth. Wedgewood Rooms. Me, and 400 of you. Fuzz pedals, hormones, and extraterrestrials.
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> — Gerard Way (@gerardway) [August 18, 2014](https://twitter.com/gerardway/statuses/501327215435718656)

Check out the track-listing for *Hesitant Alien* and its album art:

Bureau
 Action Cat
 No Shows
 Casting Shadows
 Millions
 Zero Zero
 Juarez
 Drugstore Perfume
 Get The Gang Together
 How’s It Going To Be
 Maya The Psychic

[![Album cover for Gerard Way's Hesitant Alien: a red-haired man in a blue suit and red tie looks aside, hand raised](https://altwire.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BvM1eoiCYAAat-.jpg)](https://altwire.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BvM1eoiCYAAat-.jpg)

For more information, check out [Gerard Way's official homepage](https://www.gerardway.com/).

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From AltWire: https://altwire.net/gerard-way-reveals-album-art/