THIS IS LORELEI Announces New Album 'The Singer In My Band'
THIS IS LORELEI
ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
OUT SEPT 11 VIA MATADOR
WATCH VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE “BILLY CAME BACK”
TOURING THIS SUMMER AND FALL
DATES WITH BLEACHERS, @, COLIN MILLER & MORE
PLAYING NEWPORT FOLK, JUST LIKE HEAVEN & RIOT FEST
The last few years have been transformative for Nate Amos. Between delivering breakout records both as a solo artist — under his This Is Lorelei moniker — and with his band Water From Your Eyes, sold out shows across multiple continents, to seeing some of today’s most influential artists cover his songs, the ascending songwriter has found his stride. As the first This Is Lorelei album for Matador Records, The Singer in My Band takes the building blocks of the Great American Songbook and twists those elemental pieces into new shapes, at once both strangely familiar and endearingly offbeat in Amos’ signature style.
Written while touring the globe in support of releases from both his bands, The Singer in My Band arrives as the first true ‘road record’ in Amos’ discography. “The ideas incubated while daydreaming in the car without access to any instruments,” he recalls, “so instead of being home and writing on the guitar or a computer, they developed slowly and subconsciously, existing as a sort of intangible thing while looking out the van window.”
“Billy Came Back,” the album’s propulsive lead single, arrives today alongside a video by Alan “Rickman” Official. “‘Billy Came Back’ stewed for months before I picked up a guitar to work it out - I kept forgetting about it but it always came back. Finishing the song was the only way to get it to leave me alone,” says Amos.
There’s Billy, Joey, Genevieve, Sarah, and the ever-present Buddy, an Altman-esque ensemble cast that populate the album’s stories, scattered through distinctly American scenes and landmarks. As narrators go, they aren’t terribly reliable. They traffic in wild stories and chaotic experiences that are at once oddly specific and just a bit blurry, mirroring Amos’ experience of these last several years. “It’s funny, I sent my dad the album after I finished it, and he said it was kind of an “on the road beatnik” album and that reframed it for me,” says Amos. “It really is like a collection of chaotic experiences that you have while travelling. They’re also very much little works of fiction with elements of truth to them.”
This Is Lorelei will be traversing the globe in support of The Singer In My Band. The tour includes dates with Bleachers, @, and Colin Miller. All dates below.
WATCH THE “BILLY CAME BACK” VIDEO
2024’s Box for Buddy, Box for Star was Amos’ first attempt at an intentionally written full-length solo album, tackling newfound sobriety through a roving tongue-in-cheek take on musical personas, all strained through Amos’ genre-agnostic lens. It was a critical and word-of-mouth success, spawning a deluxe version with covers and collaborations including MJ Lenderman, Hayley Williams, Jeff Tweedy, Cameron Winter and many more.
The Singer in My Band came together in the same apartment Amos has produced much of his music, with final touches made at his parents’ house in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Amos engineered, produced, and performed everything on Singer, save for a blistering banjo lead on the title track courtesy of his father, bluegrass musician Bob Amos, and the occasional vocals from his sister Sarah Amos and partner Al Nardo. “They’re three people who had a fundamental impact on what this album was to begin with, and the ways they could contribute were things that I had in mind as I was writing the songs,” he explains.
There’s an economy of style to Singer that’s distinct in the Lorelei catalog, harkening back to Amos’ earliest experiences with songwriting and a lifelong reverence for bluegrass music. “It’s the most fundamental form of music to me,” he says, but is quick to note any influence is more as a set of principles than a sound. “There’s a simplicity to bluegrass, where there are very particular rules and a very particular box - songs have to stand up by themselves in terms of melody, lyrics and chord progression.”
Tour Dates:
07/25 - Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival - SOLD OUT
08/22 - Pasadena, CA @ Just Like Heaven
09/20 - Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
09/22 - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
09/23 - Indianapolis, IN @ Turntable
09/25 - Waukee, IA @ Vibrant Music Hall *
09/26 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *
09/27 - Milwaukee, WI @ Landmark Credit Union Live *
09/29 - Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill *
09/30 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center *
10/05 - Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy *
10/03 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues - Bronze Peacock
10/06 - Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater *
10/08 - Nashville, TN @ The Truth *
10/10 - Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas ^
10/11 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger ^
10/13 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar ^
10/14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy Theatre ^ - SOLD OUT
10/16 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent ^ - SOLD OUT
10/17 - Healdsburg, CA @ Little Saint ^
10/19 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater ^
10/20 - Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre ^
10/21 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^ - SOLD OUT
10/23 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge ^
10/24 - Denver, CO @ Summit ^
10/27 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ~ - SOLD OUT
10/28 - Cleveland, OH @ Mahall's ~
10/30 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall ~
10/31 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB ~
11/02 - Boston, MA @ Royale ~
11/04 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis ~ - SOLD OUT
11/05 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church ~ - SOLD OUT
11/06 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall ~ - SOLD OUT
11/12 - New York, NY @ Warsaw
11/17 - Bristol, UK @ Electric Bristol #
11/18 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club #
11/19 - Glasgow, UK @ The Art School # - SOLD OUT
11/21 - Dublin, Ireland @ The Workman's Club # - SOLD OUT
11/22 - Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall #
11/24 - Nottingham, UK @ Bodega #
11/25 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk #
11/26 - London, UK @ Electric Brixton #
11/28-11/29 - Argentina @ Primavera Sound Buenos Aires
12/05-12/06 - Brasília, Brazil @ Primavera Sound Sao Paulo
* w/ Bleachers
^ w/ Colin Miller
~ w/ @ ("At")
# w/ Dark Tea
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