SHAKEY GRAVES
UK TOUR MAY
LONDON’S THE DOME ON FRIDAY 31st MAY
Texas singer-songwriter Alejandro Rose-Garcia aka Shakey Graves returns to the UK in May, for a tour which includes a sold-out London show at The Dome on 31st May.
MAY TOUR DATES:
Thursday 30 May – Fiddlers – Bristol, UK
Friday 31 May – The Dome – London, UK – SOLD OUT
Saturday 1 June – The Haunt – Brighton, UK
Sunday 2 June – District – Liverpool, UK
Monday 3 June – The Cluny – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Thursday 6 June – Summerhall – Edinburgh, UK
His latest album, ‘Can’t Wake Up‘, veers from the inevitable to the revelatory. Its thirteen songs teem with jarring musical and thematic collisions and thrillingly seamless intersections, gnarly psychological hornswoggles and ecstatic resolutions. Central to the prevailing sense of disorientation are the lead vocals, none of which is purely solo. Instead, each lead performance is shadowed by a queasy harmony or slightly out–of–sync unison part, giving the sense—especially on headphones—that these voices are emanating from inside the listener’s head. The songs venture through reflections and life lessons learned from personal experiences dating as far back as high school. “The beautiful lesson of all this is having to trust yourself, to be willing to start something that you don’t know the outcome of,” he reflects. “Or to lean toward something just because it feels right, even though it may not be what you originally put down on paper. Those are the kind of stories in this record. They’re not so much about specific people, or even myself per se. They’re different shades of every person’s life.”
STREAM ‘NPR NIGHT OWL SESSIONS’ EP HERE STREAM ‘CAN’T WAKE UP’ LP HERE
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