The New Pornographers added dates to their 2015 touring schedule recently. The band will play a handful of shows this summer in support of Brill Bruisers, their sixth studio effort. They'll stop by the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Quincy, Washington, on May 22 to kick off the tour, wrapping it up in July at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Consequence of Sound notes.
Brill Bruisers dropped in August and received a slew of positive reviews. Frontman A.C. Newman talked about the album back in June.
"This is a celebration record," he said in a statement. "After periods of difficulty, I am at a place where nothing in my life is dragging me down and the music reflects that." Moreover, regarding the direction of the album, he added, "We wanted Xanadu and we wanted Sigue Sigue Sputnik, which translated into sparklier and faster [music]."
Check out the dates and title track below.
Pornographer Neko Case was coming off the success of her 2013 solo album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You when the band decided to put out Brill Bruisers. Case has managed to put out some stellar solo efforts, and The Worse Things Get proved to be another winner.
"Neko Case has grown into one of America's best and most ambitious singer-songwriters," Rolling Stone wrote. "Her perfectly turned sixth LP deals with identity and autonomy; it's got feminist musculature and the dirt of a working musician under its fingernails."
05/22: Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
05/29: Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
05/30: Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli De Delling
05/31: Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
06/01: Aarhus, DK @ Fonden Voxhall
06/02: Stavanger, NO @ Folken
06/03: Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
06/04: Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Strand
06/06: Porto, PT @ NOS Primavera Sound
06/20: Toronto, ON @ North by Northeast
07/10: Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
07/12: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
07/14: Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
07/16 – Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre
07/17-19: Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
