Better Lovers Announce 2024 North American Fall Tour Dates
Better Lovers, who release their debut album, Highly Irresponsible, on Oct. 25 via SharpTone Records, have announced their first slate of North American tour dates in support of the 10-song release, with the five-week trek kicking off on Nov. 3 in Asheville, NC. Tickets for all dates are on-sale now.
Better Lovers 2024 North American Fall Tour Dates:
11/3/24: Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
11/4/24: Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
11/5/24: Orlando, FL – The Abbey
11/6/24: Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
11/8/24: Charlotte, NC – The Underground
11/9/24: Richmond, VA – Canal Club
11/10/24: Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
11/11/24: Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
11/13/24: Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls
11/14/24: Toronto, ON – Opera House
11/15/24: Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre
11/16/24: Montreal QC – Theatre Fairmount
11/17/24: Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
11/19/24: Detroit, MI – The Magic Stick
11/20/24: Chicago, IL – The Metro
11/21/24: Minneapolis, MN – Lyric @ Skyway
11/23/24: Denver, CO – The Summit
11/24/24: Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
11/26/24: Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
11/27/24: Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
11/29/24: Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre
11/30/24: Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
12/1/24: Los Angeles, CA – The Regent
12/2/24: Mesa, AZ – The Nile
12/4/24: Dallas, TX Studio – The Factory
12/5/24: Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Music Hall
12/6/24: Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
12/7/24: St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
12/8/24: Lakewood, OH – The Roxy
A preview of the eagerly-awaited debut album arrived last week with “A White Horse Covered in Blood,” along with its Eric Richter-produced video can be viewed here.
Jordan Buckley: “Writing and recording our first full length was slightly more surgical than the EP, but had a similar lack of restraint. I feel more pressure giving a quote for this press release than I felt all winter in Will’s studio. I got to wake up every day and watch the masters perfect their craft. I was a student. It was a playground. Everything was funny. We were reading each other’s minds. Even creating our own language at some points. I didn’t know if I was watching my closest friends write music, or if I was watching music use us to exist. The voice in my head warning me how Highly Irresponsible it was to hop on this bull again was gone. Replaced by big ideas, inside jokes, and a rejuvenated love for helping to write songs that don’t sound like anything else. Humans and animals alike are programmed to do wild things for what they love. Highly Irresponsible things. And we love what we’ve created. We know you will too.”
Greg Puciato adds: “New album. First full length. It’s a typical thing to say, but we’re excited to start getting this out there. Everyone really brought their best to the album, and brought out the best in each other, and that goes for everyone behind-the-scenes too.”
Recorded this Spring, Highly Irresponsible benefits from the dual role of Will Putney, who, besides being one of the band’s guitarists, also brings his production skills to the album. Putney explains, “Being a member of the band and the producer is actually a real advantage for Better Lovers. We’re so dialed in to exactly what we want to do, and our creative process is so in sync and natural that we rarely hit a wall when we work on music. My role is to capture the energy of the band the way it’s intended to sound: a band firing on all cylinders.”
Album pre-orders, including limited-edition vinyl variants and CD, as well as digital pre-saves, are available here.
Highly Irresponsible Tracklist:
1. Lie Between The Lines
2. Your Misplaced Self
3. A White Horse Covered In Blood
4. Future Myopia
5. Deliver Us From Life
6. Drowning In A Burning World
7. Everything Was Put Here For Me
8. Superman Died Paralyzed
9. At All Times
10. Love As An Act of Rebellion
About Better Lovers:
Better Lovers is Jordan Buckley, Clayton “Goose” Holyoak, Stephen Micciche, Greg Puciato, and Will Putney. The band released their debut single, “30 Under 13,” in the Spring of 2023, followed by the four-song God Made Me An Animal EP that Summer. In December, they launched an annual holiday event, BLissmas, which has already sold out in back-to-back years. In the short time since their inception, Better Lovers have traversed North America twice and played a spate of sold-out European shows and festivals. Consequence said the band “lives up to its billing,” Revolver said Better Lovers’ music features a “patented mix of mathcore spasms and… swagger,” while Kerrang! declared, “Better Lovers energy isn’t just angry. It’s explosive. It’s excitement. It’s primal.”
