After the triumph of their UK and US No.1 record, The Lumineers are back with their third studio album, III, out on Decca Records on 13 September. The two-time Grammy-nominated band also release ‘Gloria’, the first single from the album, today, with the first UK performance on BBC One’s Graham Norton Show tonight, Friday, 5 April. You can hear the track below. A conceptual album presented across three chapters, III is described as “darker in tone than anything The Lumineers done before, with each part centering on one main character from a fictitious family known as The Sparks, who span three generations in the album’s storyline.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Written by the band’s founding members, Wesley Schultz and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites, the album sees violinist/vocalist Lauren Jacobson officially joining the band, after playing on their previous two albums. Lauren completes the touring line-up that includes pianist Stelth Ulvang, bassist/backing vocalist Byron Isaacs and multi-instrumentalist Brandon Miller. ﻿ The Lumineers’ self-titled 2012 debut album broke into the Top 10 of the UK Official Album Charts and was certified triple-platinum in 2018. Their second album, Cleopatra, released in 2016, was certified platinum and hit No.1 in both the UK Official Album Charts and No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 in its week of release. The band has sold out tours across the world, selling over 300,000 tickets on 2017’s ‘Cleopatra World Tour’ which ended with 27 sold out arena shows. Their discography has racked up a total of 4.2 billion streams and 4.6 million album sales worldwide Regarding the new album, Fraites says, “This collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way, and I feel with this album we’ve really hit our stride.” The Lumineers play the following tour dates: May 19: Hangout Musical Festival, Gulf Shores AL June 2: Radio 104.5 Birthday Show, Camden, NJ June 15: 101 WKQX Piqniq, Chicago, IL June 16: Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN June 22: Alt 92.3 Summer Open, New York, NY June 29: Tinderbox, Odense, Denmark July 19-21: Splendour in the Grass, New South Wales, Australia July 27: Fuji Rock Festival, Niigata, Japan August 2: Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC August 7: The Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO August 9-11: Outside Lands, San Francisco, CA August 16: Woodstock Music & Arts, Watkins Glen, NY September 21: Sea.Hear.Now. Festival, Asbury Park, NJ November 1: Campo Pequeno, Lisbon, Portugal November 2: WiZink Center, Madrid, Spain November 4: Alcatraz, Milan, Italy November 6: Halle 622, Zurich, Switzerland November 7: Zenith, Munich, Germany November 9: Gasometer, Vienna, Austria November 10: Forum Karlin, Prague, Czech Republic November 13: Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany November 14: Verti Music Hall, Berlin, Germany November 16: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium November 18: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands November 19: Palladium, Cologne, Germany November 20: Le Zénith, Paris, France November 22: The SSE Hydro, Glasgow, UK November 24: Manchester Arena, Manchester, UK November 27: The O2, London, UK November 29: 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland. III is out on 13 September and can be pre-ordered here.<doc-sep>American folk-rock band The Lumineers took to social media to reveal the release date and track list of their upcoming third self-titled album, scheduled for release on Friday, 13 September 2019. The band took to their official social media accounts on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, to tease their announcement with a short video which documented their first two albums in roman numerals and then ultimately adding in the third symbol, which indicated the upcoming album. The video was captioned with a shorts statement stating, “We have a new album coming out later this year. The first single will be Gloria and you can listen to it this Friday.” As promised, the band released their lead single from the album, Gloria, today, 5 April 2019. The song maintains the band’s signature upbeat sound whilst tackling a deep theme. According to frontman Wesley Shultz, the song is about the love between an addict and her family. The song details occasions where a child finds the woman named Gloria unconscious due to the in-take of illicit substances. The single was released with an accompanying lyric video, which shows vintage images of a woman with her family, with all the family members’ identities remaining anonymous with a blacked-out block across their eyes. The thirteen-track album shows a track list with songs grouped into three’s, with the last three songs Democracy, Old Lady and Soundtrack Song appearing as bonuses. The Lumineers III will be available for purchase on Friday, 13 September 2019. The album is available for pre-order on iTunes. Sayushka Naidoo [email protected]<doc-sep>In deciding to shake up the format a little, Schultz says he paid attention to how other artists "were breaking the mold, how you'd have someone like Childish Gambino put out a song or video that didn't even have a home. It was kind of like an orphan of a song. There was no EP attached to it. Basically, that showed us… you can have people hear your music and you can have success without, you know, saying 'let's put out a normal album.' As opposed to letting a traditional single be the placeholder for the next several months, the Lumineers will continue rolling out some introductory chunks from the album ahead of its release. "Heaven help me now, heaven show the way, get me back on my own two feet / I would lie awake and pray you don't lie awake for me..." "Gloria," the just-released new single, introduces a fictional family matriarch who resembles what Schultz says was a close real-world relative who was also an alcoholic. He, and others, wanted to save her from herself. If you listen closely, the words are uncomfortable. The music is typical toe-tapping Lumineers, with a furiously strummed guitar adding a hopefulness to the imagery: "Seeing things like that, seeing people kind of break the quote-unquote rules… it seems like a really good time to be an artist. You still need good ideas. You need good songs, but we can get really creative with how we roll things out." Schultz and fellow songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites are the remaining core of the band, following the departure last year of cellist/vocalist Neyla Pekarek, who decided to launch a solo career. III was recorded after she left, though the songs themselves were the product of a long creative gestation. Schultz and Fraites wrote separately, eventually renting a house where they workshopped the tunes for a few months before heading into the studio. Schultz decided to return to an old place for inspiration. He dug up long-buried notes and diary entries, revisiting the seeds of ideas he never got around to planting. He'd gotten the idea for a song "chapter" about Gloria more than a decade ago. Back then, he was also thinking along the lines of spreading three stories across three EPs that all related to each other, with the working title of Love, Loss and Crimes. He had the idea at that point, but not the songs, so it got put on the shelf. Along the way, the band matured and broke through. On the individual front, it's surely more than coincidence that they're putting out a record about family when, in 2018, both Schultz and Fraites became first-time fathers. Maybe there's something about starting a family that makes you pause, look back and take stock of how you relate to the ones you love. "Jimmy believed in the American way. A prison guard, he worked hard and made the minimum wage / He found his freedom locking men in a cage…" Fraites, as it turns out, was working his way through the Harry Potter books as the new album was coming together. Noting how they became progressively complicated and textured, he felt the same thing was happening with the band's material. The group, Fraites says, in the beginning "came from a seemingly light place," with earlier records that sound happier. They're just allowing their palate now to get darker. Just a little. One of the new songs actually has so much of a tense undercurrent that director M. Night Shyamalan, with whom the band had become friendly, rejected it for his most recent movie Glass. He'd asked the band for a song that could be used over the end credits, but he felt what they gave him — the song that closes III, called "Salt and the Sea" — didn't really fit the vibe. So the band took it back.<doc-sep>
Three years after their last release, The Lumineers announced today that their new album III is coming September 13. The two-time Grammy nominated band has also released “Gloria,” the first single from the album. Lead vocalist Wesley Schultz says the song “is about love between an addict and her family.” The new album III is audacious: every note, every syllable and every moment of silence in between is emotionally charged. The album is darker in tone than previous albums and is presented in three chapters, with each one centering on one main character from a fictitious family known as the Sparks, who span three generations in the album’s storyline. III‘s concept began while the band was writing in the Catskill mountains, where producer Simone Felice works. Mixing raw emotional themes with their ear-catching melodies, expressive vocals and trademark acoustic sound, III moves masterly in artistic directions not yet traveled by the band. Listen to “Gloria” here: Written by the two founding members, Schultz and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites, the album sees violinist/vocalist Lauren Jacobson officially joining the band. Her playing can be heard on the band’s previous two albums. She joins the touring lineup that includes pianist Stelth Ulvang, bassist/backing vocalist Byron Isaacs and multi-instrumentalist Brandon Miller. (After eight years, cellist/vocalist Neyla Pekarek left the group in 2018 to embark on a solo career.) The Lumineers have enjoyed substantial commercial success: their 2012 self-titled debut featured the hit single, “Ho Hey” and was certified triple-platinum in 2018, the same year their 2016 sophomore album, Cleopatra, was certified platinum and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200. Regarding the new album, Fraites says, “This collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way, and I feel with this album we’ve really hit our stride.” Tour Dates 5/19 – Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Musical Festival 6/2 – Camden, NJ – Radio 104.5 Birthday Show 6/15 – Chicago, IL – 101 WKQX Pigniq 6/16 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival 6/22 – New York, NY – Alt 92.3 Summer Open 6/29 – Odense, Denmark – Tinderbox 7/19-21 – New South Wales, Austrailia – Splendour in the Grass 7/26 – Niigata, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival 8/2 – MontreaI, QC – Osheaga Festival 8/7 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom 8/9-11 – San Francisco, CA- Outside Lands 8/16 – Watkins Glen, NY – Woodstock Music & Arts 9/21 – Asbury Park, NJ – Sea Hear Now Festival 11/1 – Lisbon, Portugal – Campo Pequeno 11/2 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center 11/4 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz 11/6 – Zurich, Switzerland – Halle 622 11/7 – Munich, Germany – Zenith 11/9 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer 11/10 – Prague, Czech Republic – Forum Karlin 11/13 – Hamburg, Germany – Sporthalle 11/14 – Berlin, Germany – Verti Music Hall 11/16 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique 11/18 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg 11/19 – Cologne, Germany – Palladium 11/20 – Paris, France – Le Zenith 11/22 – Glasgow, UK – The SSE Hydro 11/24 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena 11/27 – London, UK – The O2 11/29 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena