Veteran folk band The Head and the Heart revealed details of their upcoming album and an extensive tour schedule, kicking off at the Fillmore Detroit this spring.
May 9 will see the release of Aperture, the sixth studio album from The Head and the Heart. It’s the first record self-produced by the Seattle group since their 2011 self-titled debut.
“The Aperture Tour” will launch May 31 at the Fillmore Detroit. Ticket presale begins on Wednesday, March 5, at 10 a.m. ET with code “FUNKY” at livenation.com, followed by general on sale at 10 a.m. on March 7. Georgia rockers Futurebirds and Minneapolis singer-songwriter Anna Graves are the supporting acts.
Listen to the Head and the Heart’s new single “After the Setting Sun” below.
The making of Aperture was greatly influenced by current events in the U.S. and around the world, according to The Head and the Heart guitarist and vocalist Matt Gervais.
“I believe we’ve made a very great record together and obviously the title is an important aspect of the final product,” Gervais said in a press release. “For me, Aperture represents the choice we all must make between resigning ourselves to darkness, or letting the light in and recognizing our own agency to do so. It feels relevant to the times, in that we’re literally choosing between authoritarianism vs. democracy. Ignorance vs. enlightenment on a macro scale, and complacency/cynicism vs. hope, empathy and perseverance on the micro scale. To me, it sums up a lot of what each of these songs is grappling with in some form and what we’ve collectively gone through as a band. It’s about choosing hope again and again, no matter how many times it may feel that you have lost it.”
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