DUBLIN, IRELAND (Top40 Charts/ MUZU.TV) City and Colour - acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Dallas Green - will release his highly anticipated new album, The Hurry and The Harm, June 3 on Cooking Vinyl. He has also announced the first single to be taken from the album as "
Thirst". The track premiered on BBC
Radio 1 as Zane Lowe's Hottest Record on 1st April.
The Hurry and The Harm is Green's fourth release as City and Colour and follows 2011's
Little Hell, which received widespread critical and commercial praise. The album debuted at #1 on Canada's Top 200 Chart, #28 in the U.S., #2 in Australia and top 40 in the U.K. and went on to be certified RIAA Platinum in Canada and RIAA Gold in Australia.
Widely recognized for his live performances, City and Colour has sold out countless shows worldwide, including sold-out, UK headline performances at London's Royal Albert Hall and two nights at The Roundhouse. He has also performed at Bonnaroo, Coachella, Sasquatch, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, the Newport Folk Festival and Glastonbury Festival (see attached touring history for complete details). City and Colour will celebrate the release of The Hurry and The Harm with a forthcoming European tour that includes a performance at London's Bush Hall that sold out on Friday 22nd in a matter of minutes. The shows will feature a brand new touring band including Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, Dead Weather) on bass,
Dante Schwebel (Hacienda, Dan Auerbach) on guitar, Doug MacGregor (Constantines) on drums and Matt
Kelly on pedal steel guitar and keys.
Recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios during the fall/winter of 2013, the new album was produced once again by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Death Cab for Cutie and The Mars Votla). In addition to Green, the album features Jack Lawrence on bass (The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather), Bo Koster on keys (My Morning Jacket), Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple) and
James Gadson (Bill Withers, BB King) on drums and Spencer Cullum (Caitlin Rose) on pedal steel.
City And Colour - Thirst on
MUZU.TV.
Of the new album, Green comments, "I don't have a lot of faith in myself, so it is hard for me to have a lot of faith in something I have created. But I've never been happier or prouder about something that I have done."
Track Listing:
01. The Hurry and The Harm
02. Harder Than Stone
03. Of Space and Time
04. The Lonely Life
05. Paradise
06. Commentators
07. Thirst
08. Two Coins
09. Take Care
10. Ladies and Gentlemen
11. The Golden State
12. Death's Song
Tour Dates:
June 5 - Bush Hall (London, UK) SOLD OUT
June 7 - Cafe De La Dance (Paris, FR) www.fnac.com / www.alias-production.fr
June 9 - Magazzini Generali (Milan, IT) www.ticketone.it
June 10 - Komplex 457 (Zurich, CH) www.starticket.ch
June 11 - Den Atelier (Luxembourg, LU) www.atelier.lu
June 13 - Botanique-Orangerie (Brussels, BE) https://www.ticketmatic.com
June 14 - Melkweg (Amsterdam, NL) www.melkweg.nl
June 16 - Lichtburg Theater (Essen, DE) www.eventim.de
www.cityandcolour.ca
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