The new Crowded House album has a name (Intriguer) and an officially confirmed release date of July 13th via Fantasy/Concord. And we’re all lucky, because Crowded House will of course be hitting the road for an extensive set of tour dates to promote the new album. (Presumably, this means that I will finally see my first Crowded House gig since 1994!)
Intriguer will feature the following track listing, and will be available in two different flavors including a special deluxe edition featuring a bonus live DVD.
1. Saturday Sun
2. Archer’s Arrows
3. Amsterdam
4. Either Side of the World
5. Falling Down
6. Isolation
7. Twice If You’re Lucky
8. Inside Out
9. Even If
10. Elephants
Crowded House frontman Neil Finn shares the following information regarding the new album:
“Intriguer is exotic in parts, traditional in origin,” says Finn. “Through many a twist and turn we fashioned some drama and intrigue. You will find some threads that go back through all that history and some new discoveries as well that will need to be followed up. Its part of the continuum and it may just be the best thing we’ve done…until the next one.”
Produced by Jim Scott (Wilco), Intriguer once again brings together singer/guitarist and chief songwriter Neil Finn with original Crowded House bassist Nick Seymour and keyboardist/guitarist Mark Hart, who’d been with the band from 1989 until its last days. Also on board is drummer Matt Sherrod, the relative newcomer to the family, having joined the band for the making of Time On Earth. Recorded at Roundhead Studios in Auckland, New Zealand, in the spring and summer of 2009, the album includes songs that “have been worked over on the road and transformed a few times, some all the way back to square one,” says Finn. “It’s a good place to return to from time to time.”
U.S./Canadian tour dates and samples of several tracks (including the new video for “Saturday Sun”) can be found after the jump:
Mon Jul 12 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
Tue Jul 13 Montreal, QC Metropolis
Thu Jul 15 Ottawa, ON Lebreton Flats Park
Fri Jul 16 Buffalo, NY Erie Canal Harbor
Sat Jul 17 Boston, MA House of Blues
Mon Jul 19 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Tue Jul 20 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Wed Jul 21 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Fri Jul 23 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre
Sat Jul 24 Atlantic City, NJ House of Blues
Mon Jul 26 Vienna, VA Wolftrap
Wed Jul 28 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
Thu Jul 29 Miami, FL Fillmore Miami Beach
Fri Jul 30 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
Sun Aug 1 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Mon Aug 2 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Wed Aug 4 Austin, TX Stubb’s Walker Creek
Thu Aug 5 Dallas, TX House of Blues
Fri Aug 20 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
Sun Aug 22 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay
Mon Aug 23 San Francisco, CA Warfield
Tue Aug 24 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery
Thu Aug 26 Troutdale, OR Edgefield Amphitheater
Sat Aug 28 Seattle, WA Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery
Sun Aug 29 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Mon Aug 30 Victoria, BC Royal Theatre
Wed Sep 1 Edmonton, AB Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Thu Sep 2 Calgary, AB Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Sat Sep 4 Apple Valley, MN Zoo Amphitheater
Sun Sep 5 Chicago, IL House of Blues
hoping they revise the schedule to come here to Cleveland.
I'm not incredibly optimistic that that will happen, since they never made
it here on the last round of touring for Time on Earth. We've got tickets
for the Chicago date.
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