CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
share new track
‘Conversation’
ahead of album release
TAKEN FROM:
THE BALANCE
– OUT FRIDAY, APRIL 26
VIA ISLAND RECORDS / CAROLINE AUSTRALIA
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Ahead of releasing third album The Balance next week, Catfish and The Bottlemen share ‘Conversation’ – the fourth and final track to be lifted from the album, out April 26 via Island Records / Caroline Australia.
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‘Conversation’ follows singles ‘Longshot‘, ‘2all‘ and live favourite ‘Fluctuate‘, with the band also announcing a headline run alongside the recently-announced Splendour in the Grass festival.
Splendour In The Grass 2019 trails a triumphant summer that saw them command headline slots across several major UK festivals, and break new ground internationally appearing at top festivals in Italy, Spain, France, and the United States. Over the past eighteen months, the band has claimed their place as a bona fide arena band at home; adding an already sold-out UK arena tour in February 2019 to an impressive list of previously conquered stages.
Audiences from Manchester to Melbourne, London to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between have been engulfed by the swell of eager sentiment propelled from a vociferous fanbase. Catfish and the Bottlemen possess a magnetic and dynamic focal point in McCann, renowned for posing everyday, easily-identifiable observations through his lyrics.
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CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
AUS 2019
July 19 – Spin Off Festival, Adelaide
July 20 – Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay
July 22 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
July 25 – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne
July 28 – HBF Stadium, Perth
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In the breaks between electrifying outdoor and festival shows in 2018, including Australia’s own Falls Festival over the New Year, Catfish and the Bottlemen – Van McCann (guitars, vocals), Johnny Bond (guitars), Robert ‘Bob’ Hall (drums) and Benji Blakeway (bass) – retreated with Irish producer, Jacknife Lee, to carefully craft The Balance over a 12-month period.
Recorded in seclusion at two locations: Grouse Lodge, in Moate, Republic of Ireland, and The Chapel in the countryside of East Lincolnshire, the band lived and breathed the album while residing together in rural isolation.
“We loved living in the same place,” says McCann. “We were staying there the whole time, so we were waking up around each other and working until we needed to go to bed. Jacknife was always up. He was the first up and the last awake. It’s good when you’re completely engulfed in recording in a place like that, living together, because every day and all day it was about the songs. We had fun too; they were the funniest album sessions we’ve done.”
The Balance follows 2014’s platinum-certified debut, The Balcony and Top 10 ARIA Chart successor The Ride (2016), including lead single ‘7’, which hit Gold status in Australia last April.
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THE BALANCE
ALBUM TRACKLIST
1. Longshot
2. Fluctuate
3. 2all
4. Conversation
5. Sidetrack
6. Encore
7. Basically
8. Intermission
9. Mission
10. Coincide
11. Overlap
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