Blonde Redhead is back announcing their first album in 9 years will be out later this year. The band has announced their 10th studio LP Sit Down For Dinner will be out 29th September via section1 and also revealed an extensive winter tour in support of the album including dates in Europe and the UK.
The band has also shared the first track from the album. Listen below to the dreamy “Snowman”:
The trio will begin touring their new album in the States this October and begin their 14-date European leg in mid-November starting with Genève. The band will then close the tour with 3 dates in the UK playing in Leeds, Bristol, and London.
Keeping with the theme of the album, the band will also be hosting special dinners at select restaurants in Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles in September, offering fans chance to spend some time with the band over a meal. Tickets are available through the exclusive album bundle, including a signed vinyl, a limited edition section1 magazine, and dinner with the band. For tickets and more information see here.
Sit Down For Dinner was a product of lockdown written and recorded over a five-year period. In 2020, lead singer Kazu Makino reading a passage from Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’, was struck by Didion’s reflections on her devastating experience of witnessing her husband’s sudden death at the dinner table. Makino thought of her own lost ritual of congregating for dinner with family. The line “You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends” eventually inspired the album’s title.
For the Pace brothers, family dinners also hold a cultural weight. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much—and that’s OK—but we really do,” says Simone. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.” Pre-save the album here.
See below for Sit Down For Dinner’s tracklist:
- Snowman
- Kiss Her Kiss Her
- Not for Me
- Melody Experiment
- Rest of Her Life
- Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1
- Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2
- I Thought You Should Know
- Before
- If
- Via Savona
Alt-rock trio Blonde Redhead first formed in New York in 1993 when Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace met Japanese art student Kazu Makino by chance in an Italian restaurant. The band has dipped their toes in noise rock, dream pop, shoegaze, and art rock throughout its discography. They’ve cultivated a loyal following and gained a resurge in popularity after the closing track to 2000’s Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, “For the Damaged Coda”, was used in a Rick and Morty episode and became a viral meme.
Listen to “For the Damaged Coda” below:
For all of Blonde Redhead’s upcoming European and UK dates see below:
23/09 – Montezuma Cafe – Paris
25/09 – Brilliant Corners – London
20/07 – The Lexington – London
20/11 – PTR LʼUsine – Genève
21/11 – Teatro Regio di Parma – Parma
23/11 – Gebaude 9 – Cologne
24/11 – Hole 44 – Berlin
25/11 – Bahnhof Pauli – Hamburg
27/11 – Aeronef – Lille
28/11 – La Cigale – Paris
29/11 – Stereolux – Nantes
01/12 – Antipode – Rennes
02/12 – La Sirene – La Rochelle
03/12 – Le Bikini – Toulouse
05/12 – Orangerie – Brussels
06/12 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
07/12 – De Zwerver – Leffinge
09/12 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
10/12 – Thekla – Bristol
12/12 – Village Underground – London
