Greg Mendez has announced a new album, Beauty Land. Due out May 29th, it’s the Philadelphia singer-songwriter’s first full-length for Dead Oceans since he signed to the label in 2024. The folk-pop lead single “I Wanna Feel Pretty,” is out now, landing with a music video directed by Rhys Scarabosio. Watch it below. Beauty Land, a work wrestling with themes of grief, love, and addiction, came to life in Mendez’s home studio in Pennsylvania, where he recorded the album directly to tape. It’s his follow-up to 2023’s breakthrough self-titled album. Mendez discussed the clip for “I Wanna Feel Pretty” in a press statement: “I spent most of my childhood in the suburbs, surrounded by the American Dream. Grand and lonely, strip malls and housing developments. Cathedrals of consumerism and reconstituted culture.” He continued, “The stores weren’t built for the towns, the towns were built for the stores. No one really belongs.…