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Tour photo dump 🌍

My heart is full and my brain is mush

📸: 3, 10, 14 @sir_sim_on, the rest me

We did it! 14 European shows in three weeks with an 18 month old kiddo in tow. We're all headed home today!

The trip was filled with incredible moments and logistical challenges, but overall it's a moment in time we won't soon forget, with new frien

Sometimes on tour you stop on a drive day in a stunning little medieval German town with your buds

Hanging in a staircase after our Zwolle show with @tre_william

Shocked we've already been in Europe a week! One more date in the Netherlands at @waltersbookshop tomorrow, then we head south to Austria 🇦🇹

Our crew for the next three weeks assembled in a German biergarten before our first show tomorrow in the Netherlands! #marlowsaysprost

Leaving on Monday for a three week tour opening for / playing with @lochlomondband! If you're in the Netherlands, Germany, or Austria, come say hi! Tour dates and tickets in bio 👋

The Completions REGULARS EP is out today on Wet Bridge Records, and my heart is full. &hearts;️

These five songs represent the last five years of being a band.  Completions is a "Shawn" project, but it wouldn't be what it is with

Loch Lomond and Completions are releasing a split LP on Wet Bridge Records, and we're touring Europe this summer!

The singles "Driving Gloves" and "The Bouncer" are out today on all platforms, and you can now pre-order the LP, wh

Proof of life 👋

It's been a year of tumult, and social media hasn't felt like the right way to engage lately. I switched jobs... I've been navigating some frustrating issues with my back... and raising a baby - even one as easy and sweet as little

Hunkered down for a few days to track bass and drums on the next batch of Completions tunes! @floramartine has curated a really inspiring space, and I'm so pumped about what we captured. ✨

📸: @brookeparrott

BIO

Shawn Alpay’s pursuits have borne plenty of fruit. He's served as a cellist in many projects, including Father John Misty, Sleater-Kinney, Whitney, and How To Dress Well. He worked as a producer and engineer at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco for many years. And his solo project Completions released its first album I NEEDED HELP in 2022, roping in friends from Death Cab for Cutie, Beirut, and Laura Stevenson. But the biggest and most unexpected turn to his journey landed earlier this year.

He became a dad.

Having an infant means having a lot of unexpected 2am pockets to pick up a guitar and reflect, resulting in some of the most prolific and forthright songwriting of Shawn's career. "Your kid's existence somehow allows you to step outside yourself and more objectively describe your journey, and the choices, the pain, the joy, all of it," Alpay says. "The shaping of Marlow gets me dwelling on how I was shaped, and how I want more for her than what I got. These are universal parenting themes, I know -- but they then intersect with my precise story, and it's a thrill to see that exploration turn into songs and words that I know are worth sharing."

Alpay's lyrics have always leaned in a reflective direction, but there's a deeper sense of transparency and empathy in his latest efforts, which touch on the double-edged sword of emotional inheritance, the effect of burnout on a new marriage, and the mental health of dear friends. And of course, there's a song about Marlow in there too.

This past summer, Completions released the REGULARS EP as a split 12" vinyl with his wife's project, Loch Lomond, and the two bands toured Europe together. They had their toddler daughter in tow, which made the trip very joyous and very hard.

Alpay is now honing material for the Completions’ second LP, to be released next year.