New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) 'Sleeping Operator,' The Barr Brothers' second album, represents a two-year journey for this Montreal quartet, out today. The album was just featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, a Morning Becomes Eclectic performance on KCRW and much more. Raves for the album from NPR
Music to Spin are below, and an extensive tour of the US, Canada and
Europe begins this week with The War On Drugs.
Watch them perform "
Love Ain't Enough" on the CBC's Q with Jian Gomeshi:
*"Elemental, raw and mesmerizing" (NPR Music)
*"One of the best songs of the year" (NME)
*"Pulsating...explores the outskirts of the blues" (SPIN)
*"Pushes the limits of folk" (Paste)
*"An immediate joy...celestially ebullient" (KEXP)
TOUR DATES:
10/09/14 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre ^
10/10/14 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre ^
10/11/14 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre ^
10/14/14 London, UK - The Lexington
10/15/14 Cologne, DE - Studio 672
10/16/14 Hamburg, DE - Prinzenbar
10/17/14 Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
10/19/14 Zurich, SZ - Bogen F
10/20/14 Brussels, BE - Witlofbar
10/23/14 Manchester, UK - The Castle Hotel
10/24/14 Dublin, IE - Whelan's
10/25/14 Bangor, UK - Beach House
10/26/14 Sligo, IE - Sligo Live Ireland
10/28/14 Edinburgh, UK - Voodoo Rooms
10/29/14 Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds
11/05/14 Toronto, ON - Danforth
Music Hall %
11/06/14 Montreal, QC - Metropolis %
11/07/14 Sherbrooke, QC - Theatre Granada %
11/08/14 Quebec, QC - Imperial de Quebec %
11/11/14 Buffalo, NY - 9th Ward
11/12/14 Pittsburgh, PA - The Warhol
11/13/14 Columbus, OH - Woodlands Tavern
11/14/14 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
11/15/14 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
11/18/14 Washington, DC - Sixth & I
11/19/14 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
11/21/14 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11/22/14 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
12/06/14 Seattle, WA - The Tractor
12/07/14 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
12/10/14 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
12/11/14
Santa Cruz, CA - Moe's Alley
12/12/14 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite
^- w/The War on Drugs
% - w/Bahamas
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