Editor’s Note: With society’s gradual re-opening and our overall return to normalcy, there has been a deluge of tour announcements. Band in the USA keeps you updated on the shows you need to know about, and just who might be soon coming to town.
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And if you close your eyes… Bastille will tour again. Ok, please open them, because a handful of 2022 tour dates are here. The British band led by good lad Dan Smith are set to release new album Give Me The Future on February 4, and, if all goes well with youknowwhat, will take their fourth studio LP across North America this summer. Included in the run are stops at Terminal 5 in New York City (June 7), Boston’s Roadrunner (June 8), and College Street Music Hall in New Haven (June 15). The general on-sale is Friday (January 21) at 10 a.m. local time, but a pre-sale begins this morning.
Last week, Bastille dropped their latest single from the album, a glowing alt-pop bop called “Shut Off The Lights.” It’s got a bit of a tropical vibe to it, throwing it back to the indie-pop sound of a decade ago. And there’s some sexy saxophone.
“‘Shut Off The Lights’ is about being pulled out of your future-fearing anxieties by the person you’re lying next to,” says Smith. “It’s about intimacy and physical connection, rejecting our worries about life and the future for a minute, and unplugging from it all to really be present. It’s a fun, real, human moment in the middle of this big album. But also, it’s a song that nods back to Paul Simon’s Graceland and a load of music we love. It made us want to dance around the studio and is ridiculously fun to play live.”
Fire it up and peep all the Bastile dates after the jump.
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