THE LUMINEERS ANNOUNCE NEW LP CLEOPATRA OUT APRIL 8 VIA DINE ALONE + DUALTONE
WORLD TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
Dine Alone Records / Dualtone Music (an Entertainment One Company) is proud to announce that Denver-based The Lumineers’ sophomore LP is scheduled to be released on April 8, 2016. Pre-order bundles are available via Dine Alone’s website here and iTunes here. In addition the Lumineers announce a North American tour starting May 21 in Houston, Texas. The band also shares their first single “Ophelia” which can be heard here.
It took four years for The Lumineers (Wesley Schultz, Jeremiah Fraites and Neyla Pekarek) to follow up their platinum-plus, multi-Grammy-nominated, self-titled debut – which spent 46 weeks on the Billboard 200 peaking at #2 – but Cleopatra is well worth the wait. The band – founded by its core members in Ramsey, New Jersey back in 2002 – exploded onto the scene with their monster single, “Ho Hey” (which spent a staggering 62 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #3) and its follow-up, “Stubborn Love” (recently featured on President Barack Obama’s Spotify playlist). Their debut LP is also certified Triple Platinum in Canada and the ubiquitous single “Ho Hey”, which hit #1 in Canada on all major radio formats, is 7X Platinum, and the single “Stubborn Love” which also reached #1 in Canada is also certified Platinum.
The Lumineers spent a solid three years touring six of the seven continents and during that time earned a pair of Grammy nominations (Best New Artist, Best Americana Album), contributed two songs to The Hunger Games franchise (including the hit Jennifer Lawrence/James Newton Howard collaboration, “The Hanging Tree”) and sold an impressive 1.7 million albums in the U.S., and 3 million worldwide.
Cleopatra proves the band is neither taking its good fortune for granted, nor sitting back on their laurels. With the help of producer Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers, The Avett Brothers), who Wesley calls “our shaman,” the band ensconced themselves in Clubhouse, a recording studio high atop a hill in rural Rhinebeck, N.Y., not far from Woodstock.
“We took the same approach this time as we did with the first album, recording demos in a small house we rented in the original Denver neighborhood where we first moved,” explains Wesley. Contributing lyrical ideas, Wesley collaborated on the music with Jer, who tackled a variety of instruments, including guitar, the very prominent piano and trademark tribal drums.
“The record is our greatest hits reflecting what’s happened to us over the last three years,” added Wesley. “We tried to come up with the best possible version of every song, so we recorded a lot of different iterations, changing the tempos, dressing ‘em up, stripping ‘em down. It took a lot of work to make them sound so easy. We’re very passionate about the process. It was a very intense and beautiful experience. There was a lot of battling, a lot of tears, but some amazing stuff came out, and at the end, we were much better off. It transformed our relationship.” More information regarding Canadian dates and other news will be announced when available.
OFFICIAL PURCHASE LINKS:
Digital: http://geni.us/cleopatra
Physical: http://bit.ly/lumiphys
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
04.14.16 – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
04.15.16 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands
04.18.16 – Dublin, Ireland @ Olympia Theatre
04.19.16 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
04.23.16 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
04.27.16 – Paris, France @ Le Trianon
04.28.16 – Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
04.29.16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
05.02.16 – Cologne, Germany @ E-Werk
05.04.16 – Hamburg, Germany @ Gross Freiheit 36
05.06.16 – Berlin, Germany @ Admiralspalast
05.08.16 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Berns
05.09.16 – Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller
05.10.16 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
05.21.16 – White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX
05.22.16 – The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
05.25.16 – Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake City, UT
05.27.16 – CalCoast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA
05.28.16 – Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
05.29.16 – BottleRock Festival, Napa, CA
05.31.16 – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR
06.01.16 – Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
06.03.16 – Marymoor Amphitheatre, Redmond, WA
06.07.16 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
06.10.16 – KC Live! @ Kansas City Power & Light District, Kansas City, MO
06.11.16 – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, Indianapolis, IN
06.12.16 – Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO
06.14.16 – Myth, St. Paul, MN
06.15.16 – Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI
06.19.16 – Chicago Theater, Chicago, IL
07.20.16 – Gardone Riviera, Italy @ Anfiteatro Del Vittoriale
07.21.16 – Sesto al Reghena, Italy @ Sexto ‘NPlugged
ARTIST LINKS:
SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: THE BLACK PACIFIC – HERE COMES OUR WAVE
SPILL FEATURE: I THINK I’M PARANOID – A CONVERSATION WITH JIM LINDBERG OF THE BLACK PACIFIC
SPILL CONTEST: WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEE THE SHEEPDOGS ON JULY 26 AT JACKSON-TRIGGS NIAGARA ESTATE AMPHITHEATRE!
SPILL FESTIVAL REVIEW: BORN & RAISED FESTIVAL @ MONTEBELLO PARK, ST. CATHERINES (DAY TWO)
