After almost 5 years of silence, Fairly Lights has introduced his return on Tuesday (April 4).
This morning, the elusive, New Orleans-based producer shared a two-minute video by way of social media asserting The Soundship Spacesystem Tour. The video additionally previews his first official new music since 2017’s “Rainbows & Waterfalls.”
The Soundship Spacesystem Tour will hit 9 stops: Denver, Lake Dillon, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Pelham, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Moreover the cease at The Caverns in Pelham, Tenn., Fairly Lights didn’t but give any element as to which venues he can be taking part in or particular dates. Every cease will function Fairly Lights taking part in a number of nights, with 27 reveals within the 9 cities in whole.
Fairly Lights was additionally introduced as one of many headliners of Suwannee Hulaween, the annual three-day music pageant taking place on the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Florida this October 26-29. (This efficiency, nevertheless, was not listed as a cease on the tour.) Capping off a giant morning, Fairly Lights was at the moment additionally named the headliner for a brand new pageant, Cascade Equinox, taking place this September in Redmond, Ore. This new present will likely be produced by the organizers of Arizona’s longtime Gem & Jam fest.
In the meantime the official Fairly Lights tour will embody two new forms of performances: Fairly Lights in Dub and The Implausible Fairly Lights, the latter of which is anticipated to be a collaboration with longtime good friend Michal Menert and The Fairly Fantastics.
The Soundship Spacesystem Tour announcement video options Fairly Lights performing a brand new, at the moment unnamed track with lyrics that appear to mirror his return to the scene: “I’ll fly a starship throughout the universe tonight/ And after I attain the opposite aspect/ I’ll discover a place to relaxation my spirit if I can/ Maybe I could develop into a fairly mild once more/ Or I could merely be a single drop of rain/ However I’ll stay/ And I’ll be again once more.” Hear this monitor under.
Fairly Lights’ absence from the business over the previous 5 years has been a mysterious one. The producer, born Derek Vincent Smith, had final stay look at Pink Rocks Amphitheatre in 2018, the place he headlined the venue together with his stay band over two sold-out nights. Following these reveals, Fairly Lights wiped his social media and commenced an unannounced hiatus, leaving his cult following questioning when he would return.
All through the length of this hiatus, Fairly Lights made transient public appearances. In April 2020, shortly after the protests surrounding the demise of George Floyd, Fairly Lights wiped his Instagram account and introduced that he can be donating $10,000 to “assist help the heroes on the frontlines of this motion.” He additionally vaguely talked about the way it was time to start out taking part once more.
A number of months later, Fairly Lights appeared nearly throughout a stay efficiency from associates and collaborators Break Science. On a display behind the band, he remotely jammed with them for 2 of his songs, “Shining Brilliant Regardless of The Plight” and “Excessive Faculty Artwork Class.” Two years later, this previous February, Fairly Lights appeared in a promotional video for Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, a small Denver venue that was celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
See Fairly Lights’ announcement under.
