Dry the River announce their new album

Dry the River will release their second album, Alarms in the Heart, through Transgressive Records on Monday August 25th 2014.

Produced by Charlie Hugall (Florence and The Machine, Ed Sheeran), Paul Savage (Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand) and Peter Miles (We Are The Ocean, Futures, The King Blues) and with arrangements and strings from Valgeir Sigurðsson (Sigur Rós, Björk), the resulting 10-track album is bold, expansive, confident and cohesive - an undeniable step up in both diversity and volume from their critically acclaimed debut, Shallow Bed (March 2012).

The first track from the album to be unveiled, Gethsemane, uncovers the spiritual heart of the record, delivering a Buckley-esque narrative: “Excavating down you’d find the drowning and the drowned / And then there’s us, babe.” Shot at the Rivoli Ballroom in South London, the stunning video for Gethsemane can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdyudQwQEKE

The album also features the guest vocal of The Delgados’ Emma Pollock on Roman Candle.

The track listing of the album is as follows:

1. Alarms in the Heart
2. Hidden Hand
3. Roman Candle
4. Med School
5. It Was Love That Laid Us Low
6. Gethsemane
7. Everlasting Light
8. Rollerskate
9. Vessel
10. Hope Diamond
11. [11. Husk – secret song]

Finally, the band have just announced a UK headline tour in October. The dates follow a number of festival shows over the summer, including appearances at Glastonbury and the Main Stage at Reading and Leeds.

They ended their last run of UK dates with a euphoric sold-out show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire in November 2012, a year which began with them appearing in the BBC ‘Sound of 2012’ poll. The full list of dates is:

JUNE

• 26th-29th Pilton Glastonbury (John Peel & Avalon stages)

JULY

• 4th Swaledale King of the Mountains festival (main stage headline)
• 18th Castle Hill Somersault Festival (main stage)

AUGUST

• 1st Bude Leopallooza Festival (main stage headline)
• 23rd Reading Reading Festival (main stage)
• 24th Leeds Leeds Festival (main stage)

OCTOBER

• 2nd Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
• 3rd Cambridge Junction
• 4th Manchester Academy 2
• 5th York Fibbers
• 7th Hull Welly
• 8th Glasgow Oran Mor
• 9th Newcastle Northumbria University
• 10th Birmingham Institute
• 11th Oxford Academy
• 14th Cardiff Globe
• 15th Leeds Cockpit
• 16th London Forum

Tickets for the October tour are available via www.musicglue.com/drytheriver at 9pm on Monday June 16th, priced at 10.00 in Glasgow, 15.00 in London and 12.50 elsewhere. Dry the River are: Peter Liddle (vocals / guitar), Matt Taylor (guitar), Scott Miller (bass) and Jon Warren (drums).