Fans three-piece Australian live-electronic outfit RÜFÜS DU SOL can lastly exhale their collectively held breathe, SOLACE has arrived. SOLACE represents a darker thematic shift within the band’s songwriting, tackling themes melancholy and introspection, whereas nonetheless remaining true to what acquired them right here within the first place: infectious deep home grooves, melodic breakdowns and an atmospheric presence from begin to end.
RÜFÜS DU SOL has skilled a gradual rise to turning into one probably the most profitable and influential live-electronic bands in latest reminiscence. Following their platinum licensed albums Atlas in 2013 and Bloom in 2016, SOLACE is about to launch them into the stratosphere and cement their place in music historical past.
Comprised vocalist and guitarist Tyrone Lindqvist, keyboardist Jon George, and drummer James Hunt, the band now calls California house, and spent a lot the final yr writing the album from their house studio on Rose Avenue in Venice Beach. The trio largely used the attractive and drastically contrasting landscapes California’s seashores and deserts as inspiration for the album, but in addition credit score their custom-made house studio as simply what they wanted to reinforce their artistic output.
In a unbelievable function piece written by Valerie Lee for Mixmag, the group detailed how the house got here collectively whereas they labored on the album:
“A pal ours – a shaman kinds – got here in sooner or later, with a compass in his hand, and began sizing up the room. Over the course six weeks he introduced in several issues – shells from the ocean, branches from a Joshua tree – and reworked it right into a trippy house. It was indulgent, however we would have liked it – to get misplaced in it.” – James Hunt
In order to create SOLACE, the group basically began from scratch. They deleted their pattern pack, and entered the studio with nothing however their arms, devices, and the inspirations on the wall. “It pressured us to assume exterior the field, and allowed us to be a bit extra free,” defined Tyrone Lindqvist (Mixmag).
SOLACE is made up 9 tracks, energy filled with some probably the most emotional lyricism you’ll ever hear. The storytelling is top-notch, and simply would possibly trigger you to shed a tear or two. Not solely is SOLACE one the most effective digital albums the yr, it deserves recognition as one the most effective albums the yr, interval.
Rufus can be embarking on a world tour to help the album, together with three offered out stops at Los Angeles’ Shrine Expo and New York’s Terminal 5, and one cease on New Year’s Day at The Domain of their hometown Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Please learn Valerie Lee’s Mixmag function piece on RÜFÜS DU SOL right here for a deeper dive into the sonic world SOLACE, and please benefit from the file in its entirety under, out now on Rose Avenue / Reprise Records.
SOLACE Tour Dates:
10/24/2018 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
10/25/2018 Atlanta, GA Roxy Theatre
10/26/2018 New Orleans, LA Voodoo Festival
10/27/2018 Houston, TX House Blues
10/28/2018 Austin, TX Emo’s
10/30/2018 Phoenix, AZ The Van Buren
10/31/2018 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena
11/1/2018 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Hall
11/2/2018 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Hall
11/three/2018 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Hall
11/6/2018 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/9/2018 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
11/10/2018 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium
11/11/2018 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium
11/13/2018 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
11/14/2018 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
11/15/2018 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/16/2018 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall
11/18/2018 Montreal, QC MTELUS
11/19/2018 Montreal, QC MTELUS
11/20/2018 Boston, MA House Blues
11/21/2018 Boston, MA House Blues
11/23/2018 New York, NY Terminal 5
11/24/2018 New York, NY Terminal 5
11/25/2018 New York, NY Terminal 5
11/29/2018 London, UK Printworks
11/30/2018 Birmingham, UK The Mill
12/1/2018 Glasgow, UK Queen Margaret Union
12/2/2018 Manchester, UK Academy 2
12/5/2018 Amsterdam, NL Melkweg
12/6/2018 Paris, FR Le Trabendo
12/7/2018 Cologne, DE Bürgerhaus Stollwerck
12/eight/2018 Berlin, DE Gretchen
01/1/2019 Sydney, AU The Domain
Credit: Valerie Lee – Mixmag
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