New York, NY (Top40 Charts) This September, David Ramirez released We're Not Going Anywhere, his second album in partnership with Thirty Tigers and follow up to his 2015 breakthrough album Fables. Today, KEXP premiered the video for his song "Watching From A Distance" in advance of his performance at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle this evening.
Watch "Watching From A Distance" via YouTube:
We're Not Going Anywhere is now available for purchase and streaming via iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.
For We're Not Going Anywhere, Ramirez partnered with producer Sam Kassirer, who has helmed albums by Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive, Bhi Bhiman, and many other artists. In January 2017 Ramirez and his band decamped to the Great North Sound Society, an eighteenth-century farmhouse in rural Maine that serves as Kassirer's studio.
The Austin Chronicle recently published a review of the album and said, "With fourth album We're Not Going Anywhere, Ramirez arrives... the sound rises to meet the heft of Ramirez's writing, though surprisingly, through melancholic, Eighties-pitched synth and guitar."
Texas Monthly said, "The influence of expansive rock and eighties acts are heard in new synth-driven aural textures, but the compelling lyricism that has grown Ramirez's audience over the years remains the backbone of the record."
FLOOD Magazine premiered the video for "Twins" and said, "In a voice as honeyed as that of Ryan Adams, he couches his criticism in a spaced-out brand of folk that takes notes from the shuffling sadness of The War on Drugs and Hiss Golden Messenger."
UPROXX's Caitlin White shared the news of the album release and said "...the dark country blues of the album is not an overt message, hammered home; instead, Ramirez stands his ground by refining and compressing his sound, creating rebellious, lonely and soothing music in the face of such upheaval." David Ramirez is currently on tour with support from Molly Parden. Find a full list of tour dates below.
Tour Dates:
11/1: Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
11/2: Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
11/4: Bellingham, WA - Green Frog
11/5: Portland, OR - Doug Fir
11/7: San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
11/8: Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater
11/9: San Diego, CA - The Casbah
11/10: Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
11/11: Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
11/17: Austin, TX - Mohawk
11/19: Dallas, TX - HOB Cambridge Room
11/29: St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill Duck Room
11/30: Omaha, NE - Slowdown
12/1: Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
12/2: Chicago, IL - Schubas
12/5: Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
12/6: Asheville, NC - Isis
12/7: Chattanooga, TN - The Camp House
12/8: Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
12/9: Atlanta, GA - The Earl
12/10: Dothan, AL - The Plant
12/12: Orlando, FL - The Social
12/13: Tampa, FL - Crowbar
12/14: Jacksonville, FL - JackRabbits
12/15: Tallahassee, FL - The Wilbury
12/16: Birmingham, AL - Saturn
