Villagers will release their new album Fever Dreams in August and have also announced Irish dates for later this year and released new song The First Day.
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Speaking about Fever Dreams, which is out on August 20th on Domino, Villagers main man Conor O'Brien says: "I had an urge to write something that was as generous to the listener as it was to myself. Sometimes the most delirious states can produce the most ecstatic, euphoric and escapist dreams."
He says that inspiration for the album was found in many places and came in from all angles, from night swimming on a Dutch island to Flann O’Brien, Audre Lorde, David Lynch, L. S. Lowry via the library music of Piero Umiliani and Alessandro Alessandroni and jazz from Duke Ellington and Alice Coltrane.
The First Day was inspired by a trip to the Another Love Story festival in County Meath and speaking about the video for the new song, director Daniel Brereton says, "The whole process was pretty collaborative with Conor. I think we both imagined a floatiness to the video, and obviously the title conjures up a lot of imagery and ideas, 'The first day of the rest of your life’.
"What does that look like? How does that feel? We were very lucky to shoot on film and have great casting and styling. Shooting during a pandemic is not easy, so I feel fortunate that we got to make it happen."
Inspiration for the album was found in many places and came in from all angles, from night swimming on a Dutch island to Flann O’Brien, Audre Lorde, David Lynch, L. S. Lowry via the library music of Piero Umiliani and Alessandro Alessandroni and jazz from Duke Ellington and Alice Coltrane.
Fever Dreams follows The Art Of Pretending To Swim, Darling Arithmetic, {Awayland}, and Becoming A Jackal. Conor O'Brien also has a string of accolades under his belt including two Ivor Novello Awards, two Mercury Music Prize nominations and is a previous winner of Ireland’s Choice Music Prize.
Tracklisting for Fever Dreams: Something Bigger, The First Day, Song In Seven, So Simpatico, Momentarily, Circles In The firing Line, Restless Endeavour, Full Faith In Providence, Fever Dreams, Deep In My Heart.
Villagers will play a series of live dates across the UK and Ireland, including: Tuesday, 2nd November – Opera House, Cork, Wednesday, 3rd November – Set Theatre, Kilkenny, Thursday, 4th November – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, Friday, 5th November – Black Box, Galway, Sunday, 7th November – Empire Music Hall, Belfast, Saturday, 11th December – Vicar Street, Dublin.
Tickets are on sale here from 9.00am, Friday, April 23rd.
