Chad Valley‘s last album, Young Hunger, was a bucolic exercise in beachside ’80s jams that featured kindred spirits like Twin Shadow, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Glasser, a Bermuda Triangle of artists that the singer and synth-master (real name Hugo Manuel) settles comfortably within. He’s following that up with his sophomore LP, Entirely New Blue, which arrives October 2 via Cascine. It’s a bit more of an introspective effort this time around, written between Manuel’s time in London with his girlfriend and his move to Oxford after they broke up. “True,” the first single off the record, shades his voice with a little Auto-Tune. A thumping four-on-the-floor beat pulses brighter than his earlier work, as if freedom from relationship blinders has opened his already neon-hued genre palette. Listen here.
Head on over to Cascine to pre-order Entirely New Blue, and find Chad Valley’s upcoming tour dates below.
Chad Valley tour dates:
September 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Wythe Hotel (Cascine Five-Year Party)
September 19 – Sacramento, CA @ TBD Festival
September 23 – Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer
September 24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Mondrian Hotel Rooftop
September 29 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
September 30 – Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel
October 2 – Cincinnati, OH @ Motr Pub
October 3 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas
October 4 – Madison, WI @ The Frequency
October 5 – Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
October 6 – St Paul, MN @ Turf Club
October 7 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
October 8 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake Lounge
October 9 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
October 10 – Boise, ID @ Reef
October 12 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
October 13 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
October 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
October 17 – San Diego, CA @ The Hideout
October 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
October 20 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
October 21 – Dallas, TX @ Three Links
October 22 – Austin, TX @ Red 7
October 23 – San Antonio, TX @ Limelight
October 24 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
October 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
October 28 – New Haven, CT @ Bar
October 29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
October 30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot And Saddle
October 31 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
November 18 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega Ideal Bar
November 19 – Göteborg, Sweden @ Henriksberg
November 20 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Scandic Grand Central
November 21 – Oslo, Norway @ Internasjonalen
November 22 – Cardiff, UK @ Buffalo Bar
November 23 – Liverpool, UK – O2 Academy 2
November 24 – Leicester, UK @ The Cookie
November 25 – Sheffield, UK @ O2 Academy 2
November 26 – Glasgow, UK – O2 ABC2
November 27 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 3
November 28 – Madrid, Spain – El Cielo de Teatro Barceló
November 29 – Barcelona, Spain – Razz 3
December 2 – Zürich, Switzerland – Papiersaal
December 3 – Milan, Italy – Il Maglio
December 4 – Lustenau, Austria – Carini Saal
December 5 – Vienna, Austria – Grelle Forelle
December 10 – Paris, France – Batofar
December 11 – London, UK – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
December 12 – Oxford, UK – The Bullingdon
