Pete Yorn: New single, video and UK Tour
Pete Yorn will release his single "Sans Fear" through Because Music on 16th May. Yorn, who recently released his new, eponymously-titled album, has also confirmed a string of shows in May.
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Produced by Frank Black, the album is the follow-up to last year's brace of releases; 'Back & Fourth' and 'Break Up' (a collaboration with Scarlett Johansson).
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Pete Yorn, on guitar, vocals and harmonica, will be joined on tour by his band, Mark Noseworthy (guitar), Zak Schaffer (bass) and Scott Seiver (drums).
May 2011 UK tour dates:
(Dates and information subject to change.)
Mon 16th - Manchester - Academy 3 (livenation.co.uk)
Tues 17th - Glasgow - King Tuts (gigsinscotland.com)
Thurs 19th - London - KCLSU (livenation.co.uk)
Fri 20th - Birmingham - Library (livenation.co.uk)
Pete Yorn's new album was recorded on the spur-of-the-moment in the summer of 2008. Yorn was working on material for 'Back & Fourth' in Nebraska when he got an email from Black suggesting that they record some tunes. Intrigued by the notion of experimenting with Frank, Yorn hopped on a plane to Salem, OR, where the two set up an impromptu studio.
They recorded the album in a mere five days - even though the singer-songwriter-guitarist came down with the flu two days into the process.
"Frank didn't give a shit about getting sick, so we stayed in the flow," recalls Yorn. "He has an incredible ability to distill a song down to its core."
Frank recalls, "Pete told me he wanted to better define himself as an artist. I think he just wanted to rock out. But as we headed down a path of realisation I stripped him down a whole bunch. We battled in the best sort of way. I tried to get the session into a fearless and raw place, and to his artistic credit Pete took his songwriting to a fearless and raw place. This listener will find his or herself sitting right next to Pete on the couch. And the record totally rocks out."
"Yorn's finest hour" - 4/5 Sunday Times
"Melodic and roughshod, its Carver set on Springsteen's mean streets" - 4/5 Mojo
"They say rock is dead, but nobody told this fellow" - 7/10 Classic Rock
"Brilliant throughout" - 4/5 Total Guitar
"Anthemic… music flowing straight from the open vein" - Artrocker
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