White Lies have announced details of their 3rd album. BIG TV will be released through Fiction Records on Monday August 12th 2013.
The 12-track album was produced by Ed Buller, mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent and recorded early 2013 at the ICP studios in Brussels, BELGIUM.
The album will be preceded by the release of a single, There Goes Our Love Again, on Monday August 5th.
The track listing of the album is as follows:
01 Big TV
02 There Goes Our Love Again
03 Space i
04 First Time Caller
05 Mother Tongue
06 Getting Even
07 Change
08 Be Your Man
09 Space ii
10 Tricky To Love
11 Heaven Wait
12 Goldmine
The first new music from the album, Getting Even, will be made available as a free download via the band’s site, www.whitelies.com, on Tuesday June 4th. The track can be heard here:
BIG TV will be released as both a regular CD and a deluxe 2 CD hardback book edition, the deluxe edition features 7 original demos of songs from BIG TV and stills from the studio sessions shot by Max Knight. The album will also be available digitally and on 180gsm vinyl.
The sleeve of the album features the striking image of an astronaut ‘Pilot 2’, part of a series of space-exploration themed paintings by artist Michael Kagan - www.michaelkagan.com.
White Lies have also announced extensive European & North American tours in the autumn. They additionally play a number of festival shows over the summer, including a slot on the main stage at Reading / Leeds. The list of dates is as follows:
JUNE
16th Finland Provinssirock
27th Sweden Bravalla Festival
29th Russia Park-Live Moscow
AUGUST
1st Spain Arenal Sound Festival
3rd Norway Festidalen
24th UK Reading Festival
25th UK Leeds Festival
SEPTEMBER
7th Germany Berlin Festival
OCTOBER
1st Toronto Opera House
3rd New York Bowery Ballroom
5th Boston Paradise Rock Club
7th Chicago Metro
9th San Francisco Great American Music Hall
10th Los Angeles El Rey Theatre
12th Mexico City Corona Capital Festival
NOVEMBER
7th Amsterdam Paradiso
8th Eindhoven Effenaar
9th Cologne LMH
11th Frankfurt Gibson
12th Munich Theaterfabrik
13th Vienna Gasometer
15th Zurich Komplex
16th Milan Magazzini Generali
17th Prague Lucerna
19th Posnan MTP
20th Warsaw Stodola
23rd Oslo Sentrum
25th Copenhagen Vega
27th Hamburg Grosse Freiheit
29th Brussels AB
DECEMBER
1st Paris Trianon
White Lies released their debut album, To Lose My Life, in 2009. A U.K. number 1, the album went on to sell just short of one million copies worldwide and win ‘new band of the year’ accolades at both the Mojo & Q Awards.
Their second album, Ritual, followed in January 2011 to glowing reviews. By the end of that year they had played a rapturous sold-out show at London’s Wembley Arena (their biggest U.K. show to date), headlined a packed NME / Radio 1 tent at the Reading Festival and performed live on both the Late Show with David Letterman and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, two of the highest profile TV shows in the USA.
White Lies are: Harry McVeigh (vocals / guitar), Charles Cave (bass), Jack Brown (drums).
