Following a one-minute teaser video posted last week, Dallas Green’s solo project, City & Colour, have dropped the first single from their upcoming fourth album. Green has clearly been busy in the studio working on a follow-up to 2011’s Little Hell which is set to be released during the Canadian summer, and now we have the first taste of the as-yet untitled album.
City & Colour has become the main focus for Green since his former band Alexisonfire called it quits in August last year. The hardcore act finished up a farewell tour last year with Aussie fans treated to a pair of shows in Melbourne and Sydney in December.
The new City & Colour single, ‘Of Space And Time’ is an emotive serenade in the same acoustic indie vein that made Little Hell achieve Gold status in Australia. The song is heartbreakingly sad and yet Green’s soothing croon has a way of comforting the listener.
Fans were treated to a taste of the new single in a video posted on the group’s YouTube page last week. The one-minute long video features footage of Green recording in the studio to the track, now revealed as ‘Of Space And Time’.
City & Colour will be showcasing new material in Austin, Texas for SXSW with upcoming tour dates including Reading and Leeds festivals in the UK. An Australian tour announcement is hopefully imminent with Aussie audiences last treated to Green’s folk rocking moniker at 2012’s Groovin’ The Moo festival. The Canadian proved so popular that extra sideshow dates had to be added to cope with demand.
A new City & Colour album marks the latest in a string of new international album releases due for 2013, including the disco-influenced album from Parisian duo Daft Punk, the latest from grunge veterans Mudhoney, new material from Brooklyn outfit The National, the latest from Parisian indie popsters Phoenix, the fifth LP from New Yorkers The Strokes, David Bowie’s first new album in a decade, and anticipated releases from the likes of Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Knife’s 98 minute opus, Shaking The Habitual.
Similarly we can see brand new tunes from Australian artists including a long overdue return from Empire of the Sun, the Cat Empire’s latest, the second album from Melbourne twosome Big Scary, the Russian inspired return of Midnight Juggernauts, and a heap of new albums from the likes of Bernard Fanning, Birds of Tokyo, Hermitude, Airbourne, Super Wild Horses, and new material from Perth outfit Pond.
