Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Naked and Famous to release new album and tour

New Zealand quintet The Naked and Famous are pleased to announce the release of their sophomore album, In Rolling Waves, via Republic on September 17th, 2013. Pre-order the album here.

Fronted by Alisa 
Xayalith (vocals/keyboards) and Thom Powers (guitar/vocals), The Naked and Famous lit a fire under an online fan base, with a video subculture built through YouTube and into radio. M83 invited TNAF to remix a single and a Tiesto remix transformed 'Young Blood' into a club smash. Agencies fell into The Naked and Famous slipstream, and theirs became the go-to soundtrack for gaming, Hollywood and TV shows mining a zeitgeist of young and interesting. Twelve months previously, the band, including David Beadle (bass guitar), Jesse Wood (drums) and Aaron Short (keyboards), had been writing and recording songs in bedrooms on Auckland's North Shore.
By June 2012, The Naked and Famous had played to more than 600,000 people in 24 countries, but the band chose to hit pause and embark on a second album. After two years of near-constant touring, the New Zealand five-piece set up home in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles to begin work on the twelve track album. The resulting album, In Rolling Waves produced by Powers and Short, along with Justin Meldal-Johnsen (M83, Beck and NIN) with co-production on two tracks, delivers darkly nuanced, intricately rocking electro gems once again born in bedroom studio sessions, then demoed in studios in Wales and Australia ahead of recording at Sunset Sound in Hollywood.
 
In 2013, The Naked And Famous are matured and determined to deliver new music to their fans as soon as possible. The band will commence a North American tour in late September before heading to Europe and arriving in the UK late November. Dates below.  
 

In Rolling Waves Track listing:

1. A Stillness
2. Hearts Like Ours
3. Waltz
4. Rolling Waves
5. The Mess
6. Grow Old
7. Golden Girl
8.I Kill Giants
9. What We Want
10. We Are Leaving
11. To Move With Purpose
12. A Small Reunion 

The Naked and Famous North American Tour: 
  
Sep 25 - San Diego CA, House of Blues

Sep 27 - Los Angeles CA, Wiltern
Sep 29 - Tucson AZ, Rialto Theater
 Oct 1 - Dallas TX, House of Blues
Oct 2 - Austin TX, Stubbs
 Oct 3 - Houston TX, House of Blues
 Oct 5 - Atlanta GA, The Tabernacle
 Oct 6 - Washington DC, 9:30 Club
 Oct 8 - Philadelphia PA, Electric Factory
 Oct 10 - New York NY, Terminal 5
 Oct 12 - Boston MA, House of Blues
 Oct 14 - Toronto ON, Sound Academy
 Oct 16 - Chicago IL, Riviera Theater
 Oct 18 - Denver CO, Fillmore Auditorium
 Oct 20 - Vancouver BC, Orpheum Theatre
 Oct 21 - Seattle WA, Showbox Sodo
 Oct 22 - Portland OR, Roseland Theater
 Oct 24 - Las Vegas NV, The Cosmopolitan
Oct 25 - Oakland CA, Fox Theater
Oct 26 - Pomona CA, Fox Theater 
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