Canada’s indie-rock sensation, The New Pornographers, has just released another piece from their highly anticipated forthcoming album, Whiteout Conditions. The new song is the album’s title track and is not the first the band has shared from their follow up to 2014’s Brill Bruisers. The new track can be streamed below via YouTube.
The first single the band chose to share was “High Ticket Attractions,” which they released through lyric video then soon after released a full music video for that was directed by Dan Huiting. Also, during the release of the lyric video The New Pornographers released the audio for “This Is the World of the Theater,” another song off the album. The album is due for an April 7 release and will see its released through the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord.
As reported by Under The Radar, Carl Newman, the band’s Co-founder, has this to say in a press release about the new album: “On other records it felt like sometimes it was very clear: oh, this is a fast one with me singing, and then the next would be a slow song with Neko [Case] singing. And I’ve always liked that in a White Album kind of way, being a band that just does whatever the hell they want from track to track. ‘Let’s try to give it a sound and see how focused we can make it.’ And on this record, I think we went a lot farther down that road.”
The New Pornographers are currently on tour in support of the new material that included performance at Austin’s SXSW Festival. The remainder of the tour will have the group on the road till early May, where they will consequently make an appearance in Austin, Texas again at the Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, all tour dates can be seen below.
UPDATED: Additional shows have been added below. Some of the new shows will include Spoon as a special guest. There is also a behind the scenes look at the making of the video for “High Ticket Attractions” added that can be seen below.
The New Pornographers Tour Dates:
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April 12 Los Angeles, CA Theatre at The Ace Hotel*
April 13 Oakland, CA Fox Theater*
April 14 Bend, OR Midtown Ballroom*
April 15 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre*
April 16 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom*
April 18 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue*
April 19 Chicago, IL The Metro*
April 20 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater*
April 21 Chicago, IL The Metro*
April 22 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall*
April 25 Boston, MA House of Blues*
April 26 New York, NY Terminal 5*
April 27 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer*
April 28 Washington, DC 9:30 Club (sold out)*
April 29 Washington, DC 9:30 Club*
May 1 Raleigh, NC Ritz*
May 2 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse*
May 3 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s*
May 4 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall*
May 5 Dallas, TX Granada Theater*
May 6 Austin, TX Stubb’ s*
May 9 London, UK Electric Ballroom
May 10 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso Noord/Tolhuistuin
May 11 Berlin, DE Lido
May 13 Oslo, NO Vulkan Arena
May 14 Stockholm, SE Debaser Strand
May 16 Copenhagen, DK Loppen
May 18 Paris, FR Divan Du Monde
July 18 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amph.†
July 19 Charlottesville, VA Sprint Pavilion†
July 22 Portland, ME State Theatre†
July 23 Montreal, QC Metropolis†
July 26 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE†
August 11 Denver, CO Velorama Festival
*with Waxahatchee
†with Spoon
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