White Lies have today announced the release of a deluxe version of latest album ‘Friends’ featuring 4 new tracks titled ‘Friends’, ‘Give A Sign’, ‘What I Need’ and ‘Where Do I Go?’. The band, who have just completed a headline tour of North America & are about to embark on their UK tour can now announce additional European dates for March & April including shows in Moscow & St Petersburg.
Says band member Charles Cave; “We wrote nearly two-dozen songs in the year leading up to the recording of ‘Friends’. Harry and myself worked every day through the seasons even after we had enough material for a double album. Songs like ‘Don’t Fall’ and ‘Come On’ wouldn’t have existed had we stopped any sooner. In the studio we whittled the list down to fourteen, and then only at the very final moment did we decide which ten would make the album. So these four we are releasing now aren’t B-sides. They’re songs which, perhaps even given a different time or mood, could have sat comfortably on the album. The title track ‘Friends’ – perhaps notable in its absence from the album – is the most ‘out-there’ piece of music we’ve recorded, and ‘What I Need’ is certainly the fastest! We’re so thrilled to share these with our fans. We think they stand up with everything on ‘Friends’ and we anticipate people to feel the same way.”
‘Friends’ was recorded in Bryan Ferry’s private studio in London’s Olympia and was self-produced by the band. White Lies enlisted the help of an expert team including Grammy Award-winning engineer James Brown (Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys), David Wrench (Caribou, FKA Twigs) on mixing duties and long-term collaborator Ed Buller who contributed additional production. The fourteen-track deluxe album ‘Friends’ is now available on digital download and streaming formats.
‘Friends’ Deluxe tracklist below:
1. Take It Out On Me
2. Morning In LA
3. Hold Back Your Love
4. Don’t Want To Feel It All
5. Is My Love Enough?
6. Summer Didn’t Change A Thing
7. Swing
8. Come On
9. Right Place
10. Don’t Fall
11. What I Need
12. Friends
13. Give A Sign
14. Where Do I Go?
A full list of upcoming White Lies Tour dates are below:
February 2017
17th – Guadalajara, Teatro Diana
18th – Mexico City, El Plaza Condesa
19th – Monterrey, Cinema Rio 70
23rd – UK, Newcastle O2 Academy
24th – UK, Sheffield O2 Academy
25th – UK, Oxford O2 Academy
27th – UK, Cardiff University
28th – UK, Leicester O2 Academy
March 2017
2nd – UK, Portsmouth Pyramids
3rd – UK, Hull University
4th – UK, London Troxy
6th – UK, Preston Guildhall
7th – UK, Aberdeen Garage
8th – UK, Edinburgh Potterrow
10th – UK, Coventry Empire
11th – UK, Keele University
12th – UK Norwich UEA
14th – NL, Groningen De Ossterpoort
15th – NL, The Hague Grote Zaal, Paard Van Troje
16th – NL, Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg
17th – NL, Eindhoven, Effenaar
April 2017
19th – RU, Moscow Izvestiya Hall
20th – RU, St Petersburg A2 Green Concert
27th – IL, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Barby Club
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‘Friends’ on iTunes, Amazon and all DSPS: https://WL.lnk.to/Friends
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