Into Giants video + New Quebec dates in September!

The band have just made a big announcement. They launched the video for Into Giants, which can be seen here. It’s a really nice vintage video featuring Patrick, the band and Erika Angell.

In other news: the band have launched a new set of dates in the province of Quebec in September. Check the full list below:

09/20/12 New Richmond, QC || Salle de Spectacles New Richmond *
09/21/12 Rimouski, QC || Salle Desjardins-Telus * 
09/22/12 Baie-Comeau, QC || Théâtre de Baie-Comeau *
09/23/12 Sept-Iles, QC || Salle Jean-Marc Dion *
09/26/12 Drummondville, QC || Salle Léo-Paul Therrien *
09/27/12 Sherbrooke, QC || Théâtre Granada *
09/28/12 Gatineau, QC || Musée de la Civilization * 
09/29/12 Gatineau, QC || Musée de la Civilization * 

Four songs live from the SXSW show!

Thanks to @zulalk, we now have videos of the bands show yesterday at the St. Davids Historic Sanctuary, for the SXSW festival. He filmed four songs: an extremely relaxed version of Into Giants, Words In The Fire, a snippet from Lighthouse and Step Out For A While. The full setlist of this gig can be seen here.

Also NPR reviewed the show, which can be read here.

Into Giants

Words In The Fire

Lighthouse

Step Out For A While

Adventures in your own backyard, april 2012!!!

IT’S COMING, FINALLY!

We finally have dates for the upcoming album “Adventures in your own backyard”! AND the band gave us an amazing gift: the album recording of Into Giants. It’s so freaking amazing, so go have a good listen at http://www.adventuresinyourownbackyard.com/

Release dates

Europe - April 16th

Canada - April 17th

Germany - April 20th

UK and rest of the world (excluding USA) - April 30th

USA - 1th May 

Tracklisting

01. Lighthouse
02. Blackwind
03. Step Out For A While
04. The Quiet Crowd
05. Into Giants
06. Morning Sheets
07. Words In The Fire
08. The Things You Do
09. Strange Crooked Road
10. Noisy Sunday
11. Adventures In Your Own Backyard
12. Swimming Pools

Tour

The band will be playing SXSW in March, do an extensive Europe tour in April, and support Andrew Bird in May in the USA. More detailed info undoubtely coming soon.

Patrick Watson on the album:

Hi everyone,

Our new album, “Adventures in your own Backyard” is coming out in April 2012. It was a record made with lots a love at home. It has been a great companion to me while making it and I hope it treats everybody who listens to it the same way.

Press release:

In Patrick’s own words, Adventures… is an effort on the band’s part to “make the kind of music we would want to listen to at home.” The album’s title is a nod to this sentiment and to the fact that it was recorded almost entirely in Watson’s apartment in Montreal, unlike his previous efforts which were sprawling recordings in both geography and arrangements.

In spite of the relatively spartan settings in which to record, Adventures… is equally as ambitious as Watson’s previous efforts and a thing of dynamic beauty. The result is an album that is still ripe with the touchstones one has come to expect from Patrick Watson and his collaborators, but permeated with a greater sense of patience and confidence. Adventures In Your Own Backyard is an attempt by Watson and the band to simplify their sights—to make music a bit more close to home in every sense of the phrase.

Adventures… will be preceded by the single and video for the sweeping, elegant “Into Giants,” which is available for preview to all below. Patrick and his band have already lined up shows before the album’s release that will include a headlining appearance at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in March, a variety of dates across Europe this April, and support dates with Andrew Bird in the US this May, with much more touring to follow throughout the world.