The Head and the Heart Releases New Song “Colors”

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New York – Today The Head and the Heart released a third track from the band’s forthcoming album Signs of Light, out Sept. 9th on Warner Bros. Records. “Colors” is the third song released off of the album and is available to stream here and purchase here. The band previously released album tracks “Library Magic” and first single “All We Ever Knew” which has retained the No. 1 spot at AAA for the third straight week and is #13 on the  Alternative radio chart.

In 2014, exhausted after four years of non-stop touring, the six members of The Head and the Heart pointed their individual compasses to new cities, new relationships and new adventures. Pianist Kenny Hensley learned to fly planes and enrolled in kung-fu training in China, while bassist Chris Zasche packed up a camper and went off the grid in the Canadian Rockies. Drummer Tyler Williams put down stakes across the country and immersed himself in the burgeoning music scene in Richmond, Va., while vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Charity Rose Thielen honed her compositional skills by writing for such legends as Mavis Staples.

After his own cross-country trip to reconnect with family and friends, vocalist/guitarist Jonathan Russell traveled to Haiti and found inspiration working with the non-profit Artists For Peace And Justice. “When I found out we were going to have a significant amount of time off, I saw it as an opportunity to touch base again – to listen to what other people were saying and what they were going through,” he says. “I really wanted to make sure that I reconnected with a world that was starting to feel farther and farther away.”
When The Head and the Heart regrouped last summer in Stinson Beach, Ca., to start writing together again, “it almost felt like we were a new band, trying things we hadn’t tried,” Zasche recalls. “We stayed at a bungalow on the beach. We’d wake up, have coffee and go boogie boarding. We were ready and excited to be back together.”

 

That renewed sense of purpose can be felt throughout Signs of Light, the group’s first release for Warner Bros. Records. “This album isn’t about us now having achieved our dreams,” says Thielen. “The day we started being able to live off our art was the day we achieved our dreams, in my mind. This is the album where we really fell into our true voices as those artists.”

Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Eric Church, Cage The Elephant), Signs of Light crackles with the upbeat, sing-a-long energy of the Head And The Heart’s finest work. Lead single “All We Ever Knew,” which was written during the Let’s Be Still era but never captured to the band’s satisfaction until now, is sure to be a crowd-pleaser, while “Turn It Around” seems primed to be a future concert staple, matching its inspirational message with a lush and multi-layered soundscape. Throughout, the colors are brighter, the electric guitars are louder and the musical touchstones more universal. The propulsive, smile-inducing ode to Los Angeles “City Of Angels” and the head-nodding “Rhythm & Blues” nod to classic Fleetwood Mac, while the organ-flecked “Dreamer” is a timeless-sounding ballad that could have been beamed straight out of an old jukebox.
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Signs Of Light Tracklisting
1. All We Ever Knew
2. City of Angels
3. Rhythm & Blues
4. False Alarm
5. Dreamer
6. Library Magic
7. Turn It Around
8. Colors
9. Take a Walk
10. Oh My Dear
11. I Don’t Mind
12. Your Mother’s Eyes
13. Signs of Light

 

The Head and the Heart will set off on the U.S. Signs of Light tour this fall. Tickets are selling quickly! Already a few stops have become sell outs: in Denver at Red Rocks, in Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium with a second night announced, Boston’s Orpheum Theater, New York’s Terminal 5 with a second night announced, Austin’s Stubb’s with a second night announced and two dates in Seattle at The Paramount Theater with a third show announced. A full list of tour dates can be found below.

 

The Head and The Heart US Tour Dates
08/28/16 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO SOLD OUT
10/03/16 - The Pageant – St. Louis, MO -
10/04/16 - Criterion Theater – Oklahoma City, OK -
10/06/16 - Fox Theatre – Tucson, AZ -
10/07/16 - Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA +
10/08/16 - Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA +
10/09/16 - McDonald Theatre – Eugene, OR *
10/10/16 - INB Performing Arts Center – Spokane, WA *
10/13/16 - Northrop Auditorium – Minneapolis, MN *
10/14/16 - Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL *
10/15/16 - Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN *
10/16/16 - Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN *  SOLD OUT
10/18/16 - The Orpheum Theatre – Boston, MA * SOLD OUT
10/20/16 - Terminal 5 – New York, NY * SOLD OUT
10/21/16 - Terminal 5 – New York, NY *
10/22/16 - DAR – Washington, DC *
10/23/16 - The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA *
10/24/16 - The Ritz – Raleigh, NC *
10/26/16 - The Civic – New Orleans, LA *
10/27/16 - White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX *
10/28/16 - Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX * SOLD OUT
10/29/16 - Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX *
10/30/16 - South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX *
11/02/16 - New Eccles Theater – Salt Lake City, UT *
11/03/16 - The Morrison Center – Boise, ID *
11/04/16 - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall – Portland, OR *
11/05/16 - The Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA * SOLD OUT
11/06/16 - The Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA * SOLD OUT
11/07/16 - The Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA
The Tallest Man on Earth +
Declan McKenna *
Hurray for the Riff Raff -

 

With every online ticket purchased for The Head and the Heart Fall Signs of Light tour, you’ll receive a choice of either a standard physical or standard digital copy of their new album, Signs of Light, released Friday September 9, 2016. You will receive instructions via email on how to redeem your album shortly after ticket purchase.  For any tickets purchased after the release date, you will receive instructions via email 7-10 days after purchase.

 

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