Balu Brigada have unveiled the details of their debut album ‘Portal’.
Set for release on August 29, it includes previously released tracks ‘The Question’ and ‘So Cold’, plus their new single, the dancey, disco-beat ‘Backseat’ which you can check out via the visualiser below:
Preorder the album right here.
Written in various cities across the world over the last three years, the band, which consists of brothers Henry and Pierre Beasely, say that each location has left its mark on ‘Portal’, with“heavier and grungier energy” coming from recordings in New York and “a softer and calmer” vibe for the material made in their New Zealand homeland.
Here’s the full tracklist and the album artwork for ‘Portal’:
The Portal
So Cold
Golden Gate Girl
Sideways
Birthday Interlude
Backseat
Politix
The Question
4.25
Isolation
What Do We Ever Really Know?
Butterfly Boy
The band have also just announced a full US headline tour kicking off in Mexico City this October. Tickets go on sale June 06.
Have a look at the full list of dates below:
OCTOBER
3 – Mexico City, MX – Foro Puebla
6 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
7 – San Diego, CA – Music Box
9 – Los Angeles, CA – Fonda
10 – San Francisco, CA – Independent (2 Show)
12 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
14 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
15 – Vancouver, BC – The Pearl
17 – Boise, ID – Neurolox
18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Grand at the Complex
20 – Denver, CO – Summit
22 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
23 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
24 – Detroit, MI – El Club
25 – Toronto, ON – Concert Hall
27 – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmount
28 – Boston, MA – Royale
30 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
31 – Philadelphia, PA – Foundry
NOVEMBER
1 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club (Early)
3 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
4 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
6 – Jacksonville, FL – FIVE
7 – Orlando, FL – Plaza Live
8 – Tampa, FL – Janus Live
9 – Miami, FL – Zeyzey
13 – Dallas, TX – Studio at The Factory
14 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Midtown
15 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
Balu Brigada recently opened for Twenty One Pilots on the European dates of their ‘Clancy’ arena tour and will next be seen in the UK at Reading & Leeds Festival this August.
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