Honne announce new album, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ + 2 x new tracks
HONNE
Announce new album, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’
2 x new tracks – ‘Me & You ◑ / I Just Wanna Go Back ◐’ – also available now
Released August 24th on Tatemae Recordings / Atlantic Records
Worldwide headline tour additionally confirmed (including London’s Brixton Academy, November 24th7
Listen to ‘Me & You ◑ / I Just Wanna Go Back ◐’ on YouTube
Praise for HONNE’s debut album, ‘Warm On A Cold Night’
“Eminently danceable…bruised romantics” Observer, Album of the Week ****
“A triumph” NME
“Breezy, easy, vaguely mournful electro-soul” Sunday Times Culture
“A widescreen take on late-night lust and modern romance” Mixmag, 8/10
“21st century courtly love…exquisite” Evening Standard
HONNE have announced details of second album ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’, which will be released on August 24th. The record is unveiled today alongside the plan to drop two new tracks on the last Friday of every month into release, which further explores the dual album theme: this continues today with striking new single ‘Me & You ◑’, written with and featuring Tom Misch on guitar, plus ‘I Just Wanna Go Back ◐’. Having sold out an intimate warm-up show at London’s Village Underground in a matter of minutes, HONNE have also today confirmed details of a huge worldwide tour for later this year, which includes their biggest London show to date at Brixton Academy on November 24th.
HONNE’s hugely-accomplished second album, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’, captures the duality of life’s ups and downs, with half the tracks exploring life’s positives – love, nostalgia and contentment (Love Me ◑) and the other half life’s great difficulties – heartbreak, anxiety and grief (Love Me Not ◐). The album draws heavily upon the balancing act of navigating between two states at once: whether it’s the honeymoon period high of a relationship, the frustration of a long-distance separation or the fear of losing someone close, HONNE’s lyrics dial in at the reality of most people’s lives. Appropriately, the band have already built themselves a truly global audience, with over half a billion streams, sold-out tours, and several surprises along the way (see a triple-platinum album in South Korea). Theirs is a truly modern success story which is pushed further still in the split rollout of second album ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ – a record which acknowledges that for every peak, a challenge is round the corner, and equally that whenever life overwhelms you, better times are ahead.
Those twinned experiences are further explored in two new HONNE tracks, also unveiled today: the effortlessly uplifting funk of new single ‘Me & You ◑’, which features a musical turn from Tom Misch, and the darker, more melancholic ‘I Just Wanna Go Back ◐’. Listened to together, both reflect the richer, more textured range of influences across ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ as a whole, with production variously inspired by everything from Kaytranada, BadBadNotGood and Pharrell to Dr. Dre and DJ. Dahi.
HONNE’s sometimes-awkward, always-positive portraits of 21st century romance, masculinity and modern city living has seen them bring together a diverse community of audiences around the world. And despite testing new boundaries, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ ultimately sees the band’s earliest ambitions come into even clearer focus. They cite the group’s name (“Honne” meaning your true feelings, those you keep to yourself), the name of their early record label (“Tatemae”, which reflects what you display in public), plus the fact that this dichotomy between an online persona and actual reality has become starker since when they first started making music. “Those two sides have been rooted in us from the beginning, but now is the first time we’ve truly demonstrated it. One doesn’t exist without the other, and so this time these songs have to be there together. A lot of films and TV shows either explore the good or bad, but we wanted to show a balance and the grey space.” And it’s in those in-between spaces that HONNE have truly found themelves, and a work of timely, timeless songwriting.
Tour Dates:
8th May – Village Underground, London **sold out**
24th June – Mamby On The Beach Festival, Chicago
15th July – Citadel Festival
21st July – We The Fest, Jakarta
22nd July – Good Vibes, Malaysia
17th August – Dockville Festival, Germany
9th Sep: Starlite Room / Edmonton / Canada
10th Sep: Marquee / Calgary / Canada
12th Sep: Showbox / Seattle / USA
13th Sep: Westward festival @ Vogue / Vancouver / Canada
14th Sep: Wonder Ballroom / Portland / USA
15th Sep: Warfield Theatre / San Francisco / USA
16th Sep: The Catalyst / Santa Cruz / USA
18th Sep: Glasshouse / Pomona / USA
20th Sep: The Novo / LA / USA
21st Sep: The Observatory North Park / San Diego / USA
22nd Sep: Crescent Ballroom / Phoenix / USA
25th Sep: Urban Lounge / Salt Lake City / USA
26th Sep: Bluebird Theater / Denver / USA
27th Sep: Granada Theater / Lawrence / USA
28th Sep: Fine Line / Minneapolis / USA
1st Oct: Phoenix / Toronto / Canada
2nd Oct: Fairmount Theatre / Montreal / Canada
5th Oct: The Foundry / Philadelphia / USA
6th Oct: Royale / Boston / USA
7th Oct: 9:30 Club / Washington DC / USA
8th Oct: Brooklyn Steel / NYC / USA
12th Oct: Terminal West / Atlantic / USA
13th Oct: One Eyed Jacks / New Orleans / USA
15th Oct: Trees / Dallas / USA
16th Oct: White Oak Music Hall / Houston / USA
17th Oct: Mohawk / Austin / USA
30th Oct: Parkteatret / Oslo / Norway
31st Oct: Nalen / Stockholm / Sweden
2nd Nov: Vega / Copenhagen / Denmark
6th Nov: Hybrydy / Warsaw / Poland
8th Nov: Rock Café / Prague / Cech Republic
9th Nov: Flex / Vienna / Austria
11th Nov: Magnolia / Milan / Italy
12th Nov: Plaza / Zurich / Switzerland
13th Nov: Muffathalle / Munich / Germany
15th Nov: Melkweg / Amsterdam / NL
16th Nov: Maroquinerie / Paris / France
17th Nov: Gloria / Cologne / Germany
20th Nov: St Luke’s / Glasgow / UK
21st Nov: Academy / Dublin / Ireland
22nd Nov: SWX / Bristol / UK
23rd Nov: Academy 2 / Manchester / UK
24th Nov: Brixton Academy / London / UK
Pre-sale tickets: https://atlanti.cr/worldtour2018
Pre-order ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’: https://atlanti.cr/LoveMe-LoveMeNot
Stream/buy ‘Me & You ◑ / I Just Wanna Go Back ◐’: https://atlanti.cr/MY-IJWGB
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