DAWES RELEASE FOURTH ALBUM 'ALL YOUR FAVORITE BANDS' ON JUNE 2 VIA HUB RECORDS & ANNOUNCE EUROPEAN DATESBAND ADD END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL TO TOUR DATESLA quartet Dawes‘ highly anticipated new album, All Your Favorite Bands, will be released on June 2nd on their own HUB Records. Produced by David Rawlings at Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN, this is the band’s fourth album and second on their own label. The album includes nine bracing new original recordings written by Taylor Goldsmith, except for the title track, which was co-written with Jonny Fritz. The album highlights the outstanding musicianship of Taylor (lead vocals, guitar), Griffin Goldsmith (drums, background vocals), Wylie Gelber (bass) and Tay Strathairn (keyboards, background vocals) that Dawes fans around the world have come to cherish. The album also features the vocal support of Gillian Welch and The McCrary Sisters, as well as David Rawlings on guitar and vocals, Richard Bennett on acoustic guitar and Paul Franklin on pedal steel. Watch the band performing one of the new songs on the Late Show with David Letterman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3KKRDB9-c On All Your Favorite Bands Dawes manage to transcend their well-documented Southern California influences to establish their own sound and themes, which range from the glass half full optimism of the first single, “Things Happen” and the minor-chord tension of “I Can’t Think About It Now” (featuring background vocals from Gillian Welch and the McCrary Sisters) to the soulful gospel of “Waiting for Your Call,” the rocking tongue-in-cheek lyrics of “Right On Time” and the epic, Dylan-esque set piece, “Now That It’s Too Late, Maria.” All Your Favorite Bands is Dawes’ first record since 2013′s acclaimed Stories Don’t End, which Rolling Stone awarded four out of five stars, saying its “gorgeous tunes hide a not-so-peaceful, not-so-easy feeling.” Taylor explains the album title: “The main line of the title track is ‘And may all your favorite bands stay together.’ I know that my favorite bands are a really deep part of who I am. They help define me, they help represent me, they trigger certain emotional memories, and they stand for the ideals and lifestyle that I will always hope to achieve. And I don’t mean rock and roll fantasies, but rather concepts like freedom and enlightenment. I would love for someone wishing me well to put it in the terms of ‘may all your favorite bands stay together.’ That would be a real friend. That person would know what truly matters. To me, the statement of ‘All Your Favorite Bands’ immediately gets down to a highly personal and singular part of anybody in a way that few other concepts can. So that’s why we named our record after that song.” After a summer of touring with Conor Oberst in 2014 Dawes decided on a different approach to recording. In the past they developed their songs in the studio and took them to new heights as they evolved on the road, this time they decided to go in the opposite direction. Before going into Woodland Sound, they hit the road for two weeks of small club dates in their native California with producer Rawlings in tow. Night after night, the band road-tested the new material as Rawlings stood in the crowd taking notes. The five of them would discuss the set after each show and break the songs down, tear them apart and build them up again. The Rawlings production is raw and not overwrought, the band’s playing and signature group singing is meticulous, and Taylor’s poetry is intuitive and piercing, as he uncovers nuances in people’s relationships with each other and the world around them. All Your Favorite Bands track listing: Dawes will be heading to Europe later this year, to play festivals, headline shows, as well as some dates with My Morning Jacket. So far announced are: *with My Morning Jacket http://dawestheband.com/
May 26, 2015 11:25am ET by Mercenary Publicity
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