The classic emo/indie folk band Bright Eyes have reunited after a nine-year hiatus, and have signed with the independent record label Dead Oceans. The band will be embarking on a brief five date world tour which will begin in Tokyo, Japan on March 23rd and will end in Salisbury UK in May.

Bright Eyes took to social media yesterday, and teased various posters of different concert venues indicating that they would likely tour in the near future. The band have also announced that they have been in the recording studio for the past year, where they planned to create new music.

“Bright Eyes is not just a formative artist for me personally, but for countless people who work at Dead Oceans,” Dead Oceans co-founder Phil Waldorf explained. “To get to work with a band that is part of our own origin stories in falling in love with music is the rarest of privileges. We are thrilled to be part of another great chapter in Bright Eyes enduring legacy.”

The band’s last album release The People’s Key was released back in 2011, and saw the band take an electronic based approach to their music.

“The People’s Key feels like another new direction for the accomplished indie outfit rather than the end of an era,” mxdwn reviewer Katie Carroll explained.”If this work really is the last from Mr. Oberst’s main gig (as he hinted in June 2009’s Rolling Stone), it is unlike anything that Bright Eyes has produced before. Nonetheless, this is one transformation that suits them extraordinarily well.”

UPDATE (2/18): While Bright Eyes announced a few dates for their 2020 comeback tour earlier this year, today they’ve dropped a massive addition to the tour. They’ll be playing in Europe and the East Coast of the United States throug the summer, with festival stops at Oya Festival in Oslo, NO and End of the Road in Salisbury, UK. Check out the full list of dates below.

Tour Dates:

03/23 – Tokyo, JP – Liquidroom
05/14 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory #
05/15 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory #
05/16 – Tacoma, WA – Temple #
05/18 – Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery #
05/19 – Santa Cruz, CA – Santa Cruz Civic #
05/21 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium #
05/22 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
05/23 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
05/24 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
06/12 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium *
06/13 – Syracuse, NY – Beak and Skiff *
06/14 – Lewiston, NY – Art Park *
06/16 – Bethlehem, PA – Levitt Pavillion Steel Stacks *
06/17 – Burlington, VT – The Green at Shelburne Museum *
06/18 – Portland, ME – State Theater *
06/19 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall *
06/20 – Queens, NY – Forest Hills Stadium +
08/14 – Oslo, NO – Oya Festival
08/16 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega
08/18 – Hamburg, DE – Grosse Freiheit
08/19 – Prague, CZ – Lucerna Music Bar
08/21 – Berlin, DE – Tempodrom
08/22 – Frankfurt, DE – Batschkapp
08/24 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
08/25 – Cologne, DE – E-Werk
08/27 – Vienna, AT – Open Air Arena
08/28 – Munich, DE – Muffathalle
08/29 – Zurich, CH – X-Tra
09/01 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo
09/02 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo
09/03 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
09/04 – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street
09/05 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute
09/06 – Salisbury, UK – End of the Road Festival

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* Lucy Dacus supports
+ Japanese Breakfast and Lucy Dacus suppor