Yes, Nate Amos released Holo Boy in December and Box For Buddy, Box For Star (Super Deluxe) in April. Yes, his band Water From Your Eyes has been touring with Hayley Williams for the past few months. But the indie rocker simply finds time to make new music. We sort of knew it was coming when, last month, he signed to Matador and announced a fall tour. But it’s still quite staggering. The Singer In My Band arrives this fall, and today we have the amazing lead single “Billy Came Back.”
“‘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,” Amos said. “Finishing the song was the only way to get it to leave me alone.”
Naturally, The Singer In My Band came into existence while he was touring. “The ideas incubated while daydreaming in the car without access to any instruments,” he explains, “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.”
The album is engineered, produced, and performed entirely by Amos, except for some banjo on the title track, which is done by his father, the bluegrass musician Bob Amos. “Billy Came Back” is really, really good. I know we expect it to be really good, but still. I want to listen to it a million times, and I think I could without getting tired of it. Watch its accompanying music video directed by Alan “Rickman” Official below.
TOUR DATES:
07/25 – Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival
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 ^
10/16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent ^
10/17 – Healdsburg, CA @ Little Saint ^
10/19 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater ^
10/20 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre ^
10/21 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^
10/23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge ^
10/24 – Denver, CO @ Summit ^
10/27 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ~
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 ~
11/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church ~
11/06 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall ~ –
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 #
11/21 – Dublin, Ireland @ The Workman’s Club #
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
TRACKLIST:
01 “I Will Eat My Heart in the Morning Light”
02 “Oh No Now My”
03 “Billy Came Back”
04 “Watching Heaven Fall”
05 “Sailing (Your Baby’s Down)”
06 “The Singer in My Band”
07 “Nitro”
08 “Hey Sarah Is It Gonna Rain Forever”
09 “The Kid With The Crown”
10 “And I Haven’t Seen My Love in Quite A While”
11 “Don’t You Cry in Lonesomeness”
The Singer In My Band is out 9/11 via Matador. Pre-order it here.
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