The New Pornographers have introduced new album ‘Proceed As A Visitor’ and shared the primary single ‘Actually Actually Gentle’ – pay attention beneath.
The indie-rock band will launch the brand new file on March 31 through Merge, their first LP since 2019’s ‘In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights’. You’ll be able to pre-save the brand new launch right here.
First single ‘Actually Actually Gentle’, co-written with Dan Bejar, is a brand new model of a observe that was left off 2014’s ‘Brill Bruisers‘, frontman A.C. Newman shared in a press launch.
“A part of my course of all through the years has been messing with issues I by no means completed,” he stated.
“I actually favored Dan’s refrain, and for some time I used to be simply attempting to jot down one thing that I felt like belonged with it. I used to be pondering of the Aloe Blacc tune ‘The Man’ which interpolated the refrain from Elton John’s ‘Your Tune’ and thought it will be enjoyable to interpolate a tune that nobody is aware of.
“Not attempting to sound like Aloe Blacc, simply doing a little interpolating of my very own. It grew to become a sport of writing a verse that felt like part of the identical tune. In my thoughts, I used to be striving for slightly Jeff Lynne-era Tom Petty, a traditional go-to.”
The tune additionally arrives with a music video directed by Christian Cerezo, through which dancer Svetlana Tulasi ice skates on the concrete ground of an empty warehouse.
Hearken to the brand new observe and watch the accompanying video beneath.
Elaborating on the brand new album title, Newman stated: “The thought of continuous as a visitor felt very apropos to the occasions.
“Feeling misplaced in tradition, in society – not feeling like part of any zeitgeist, however completely happy to be separate and residing your easy life, your lengthy fade-out. Discover your personal little nowhere, discover some house to crumble, proceed as a visitor.”
Discover the tracklist and album paintings beneath.
‘Proceed As A Visitor’
1. Actually Actually Gentle
2. Pontius Pilate’s Dwelling Motion pictures
3. Cat and Mouse With the Gentle
4. Final and Stunning
5. Proceed as a Visitor
6. Bottle Episodes
7. Marie and the Undersea
8. Angelcover
9. Firework within the Falling Snow
10. Want Automated Suite
Can’t wait to play new ‘Proceed as a Visitor’ songs this spring! Tour presale tomorrow @ 10am native & normal onsale 1/13 @ 10am native. @WildPinkNYC opens all these reveals. Portion of presale ticket gross sales from our web site go to @LaFronteraFund. Get the code: https://t.co/dakowXRduu pic.twitter.com/YwzBNK6Jf8
— New Pornographers (@TheNewPornos) January 9, 2023
The band has additionally introduced a North American tour throughout April and Might 2023, kicking off in Asheville, North Carolina on April 19, with stops in New Orleans, Chicago, New York and extra, earlier than rounding up in Saxapahaw, North Carolina on Might 21. Wild Pink will carry out as assist on all dates.
Pre-sale begins January 10 at 10am native time, whereas normal sale begins this Friday (January 13) at 10am native time. Discover the complete listing of dates beneath and buy your tickets right here.
The New Pornographers 2023 North American Tour:
2023
APRIL
19 – Salvage Station, Asheville
20 – Selection Playhouse, Atlanta
21 – Tipitina’s, New Orleans
22 – White Oak Music Corridor, Houston
23 – Studio at The Manufacturing facility, Dallas
25 – Paramount, Austin
26 – Tower Theatre, Oklahoma Metropolis
27 – Sheldon Live performance Corridor, St. Louis
28 – The Ready Room, Omaha
29 – The Truman, Kansas Metropolis
30 – Gothic Theatre, Denver
MAY
3 – Gothic Theatre, St. Paul
4 – Turner Corridor, Milwaukee
5 – Thalia Corridor, Chicago
6 – Thalia Corridor, Chicago
8 – Memorial Corridor, Cincinnati
9 – Newport Music Corridor, Columbus
11 – El Clubm, Detroit
12 – Danforth, Toronto
13 – Greater Floor Ballroom, Burlington
14 – Wall Road Theater, Norwalk
15 – Royale, Boston
17 – Brooklyn Metal, New York
18 – Union Switch, Philadelphia
19 – 9:30 Membership, Washington, DC
21 – Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw
In November 2021, The New Pornographers reunited with founding member Dan Bejar for his or her North American tour.
The tour celebrated two distinctive anniversaries for the band: The “twenty first birthday” of their debut album ‘Mass Romantic’, and the “candy sixteenth” of their 2005 album ‘Twin Cinema’.
