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Gengahr announce their third album, Sanctuary, for 31st January 2020, share “Everything & More” & announce worldwide tour dates

October 3, 2019
Gengahr – photo credit Jay Whitehead

GENGAHR

Announce the release of their third full-length album, Sanctuary, on 31st January 2020 via Liberator Music (part of The Mushroom Group)

Share their new single, “Everything & More” following a BBC Radio 1 Annie Mac premiere

Announce new UK shows in November 2019 with Bombay Bicycle Club plus worldwide headline live dates with UK and European shows including EartH in London on 21st February 2020

Gengahr announce their much anticipated return with their third full-length album,  Sanctuary, released on 31st January 2020 via Liberator Music (part of The Mushroom Group).

More expansive and ambitious than ever before, Sanctuary is the experimental alt-pop band’s finest body of work to date, a DIY triumph which welcomes old friend Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club as producer, adding his distinct brand of symphonic sparkle to Gengahr’s complex, layered sound and pushing the band further into all-out pop territory than they’d ever dared stray before. Recorded at the brand new Propagation House way out in Bude in Cornwall, the album also recaptures the magic that old school friends Felix Bushe, John Victor, Hugh Schulte and Danny Ward felt when they were making their debut. 

The North London four-piece today share the stunning, floor-filling first single, “Everything & More” following a premiere from BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac. Stream and share “Everything & More” below:

Gengahr also announce a UK tour in November 2019 as special guests of Bombay Bicycle Club as well as a full UK and European headline tour for February 2020 with their biggest London show to date at EartH on Friday 21st February. Tickets are available now via SeeTickets and full dates are below with UK shows in bold. 

Born of an epic journey, the follow-up to their acclaimed 2015 debut A Dream Outside and 2018’s Where Wildness Grows sees songwriter Felix Bushe tapping into personal pain but coming out fighting. Homer’s Odyssey was constantly in the back of Felix’s mind when writing, acting as a constant guide. His own modern take largely deals with the fact that his wife is still living out in Australia while Felix is based on the opposite side of the world. The highs and lows of such a long distance relationship, as well as the sudden passing of his mother, have all fed into the album’s rollercoaster of emotions. The disco-inflected “Heavenly Maybe”, heavy with ennui as well as a powerful melody, details Felix’s experience of partying in order to distract him from his real life problems. “I was picturing myself as Odysseus in this captive journey where I was just trying to get back to where I wanted to be in life,” he explains. 

With mixing from the hugely in-demand Nathan Boddy (James Blake, Nilufer Yanya, Shame), additional production from John Victor and engineering from A Dream Outside’s engineer James Bragg, Sanctuary is vibrant, intoxicating, intimate and alive; the product of friends having a good time and seizing control of their own destiny.It is a heartfelt, sophisticated body of work that runs the full gamut of human feeling, with a positive ending in the form of the beautiful, twinkling “Moonlight” – a harmonious conclusion of unison and togetherness, hinting at a bright future.

Sanctuary tracklist:

Pre-order HERE

1.     Everything & More

2.    Atlas Please

3.     Heavenly Maybe

4.     Never A Low

5.     Fantasy 

6.     You’re No Fun

7.     Soaking In Formula

8.     Anime 

9.     Icarus

10.  Moonlight

Out via worldwide release partner Liberator Music (part of The Mushroom Group) on 31st January 2020.

Gengahr live dates:

Mon 04 Nov: UK: Liverpool – Eventim Olympia *

Tue 05 Nov: UK: Dundee – Caird Hall *

Wed 06 Nov: UK: Nottingham – Rock City *

Thur 07 Nov: UK: Bath – Pavilion *

Fri 08 Nov: UK: London – O2 Academy Brixton *

Thu 13 Feb: UK: Manchester – Band On The Wall

Fri 14 Feb: UK: Leeds – Brudenell Social Club (Main Room)

Sun 16 Feb: UK: Glasgow – King Tuts

Mon 17 Feb: IRE: Dublin – The Sound House

Wed 19 Feb: UK: Bristol – Fleece

Thu 20 Feb: UK: Brighton – Patterns

Fri 21 Feb: UK: London – EartH

Mon 24 Feb: FR: Paris – Le Pop-Up Du Label

Tue 25 Feb: BE: Brussels – VOLTA

Wed 26 Feb: DE: Cologne – Blue Shell

Thu 27 Feb: DE: Berlin – Maze

Fri 28 Feb: DE: Munich – folks!

Sat 29 Feb: DE: Hamburg: Molotow Skybar

Mon 02 Mar: NE: Amsterdam – Paradiso (Upstairs)

Tue 10 Mar: NZ: Auckland – Neck Of The Woods

Fri 13 Mar: AUS: Sydney – Lansdowne

Sat 14 Mar: AUS: Melbourne – Howler

 * = with Bombay Bicycle Club

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