Amber Run new single ‘Neon Circus’ & UK tour
AMBER RUN
NEON CIRCUS
Amber Run puts in a showstopping performance in new song Neon Circus, that doubles as a 3-and-a-half minute warning to millenials glued to phones, but yet here the chaotic has never felt so beautifully crafted. Like Affection, out just 2 weeks before it, it will feature on the band’s third album, Philophobia, out September 27th. Furthermore, there’s a UK, European & US tour to tap into this fall.
Frontman Joe Keough cuts straight to the point when speaking about the songs meaning explaining “Neon Circus is a song about getting the fuck off your phone. Nothing meaningful happens with your head tilted downwards towards your black mirror. It’s a song that is a call to action to be there with us.”
Listen to it now:
Pre-Orders – Here
Whether platonic or romantic, unrequited, unconditional or ugly, every human experience
some kind of love to some degree. At its very best, love – whether from a parent or child or a
partner – can give you purpose. It can make you feel more whole and complete than you
ever thought possible. It can make life worth living. At the same time, it can totally and utterly
destroy you.
That conflict – and the delicate balance between the two – is something that Amber Run
explore thoroughly on the 10 beautiful, soul-searching songs that make up Philophobia, their
third record. Yet while that aversion is the central focus the new record from the Nottingham
trio – consisting of lead vocalist Joe Keogh, bassist Tom Sperring and keyboardist Henry
Wyeth – its songs also explore the nature of love in all its many different, complex facets and
forms to bring that complex tornado of emotions and feelings to life.
As such, Philophobia is a visceral yet philosophical exploration of the effects – positive and
negative, damaging and restorative – that love of all kinds can have on a person. ‘Affection’,
for example, soars with a beautiful grace, Keogh’s heart-torn, plaintive and ethereal vocals
proclaiming that “love to me has been as bad as good” before later stating how “love can be
as deaf as it is blind.”
You can catch the band on the following festivals in the summer and on tour across the following cities from September;
August
1: Sommer in Altona, Hamburg
2: Sound of the Forest, Michelstadt
September
19: Melkweg, Amsterdam
20: Botanique Orangerie, Brussels
21: La Maroquinerie, Paris
23: Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld
24: Lido, Berlin
25: MusikZentrum, Hanover
October
4: O2 Ritz, Manchester
5: Rock City, Nottingham
6: O2 Academy 2, Birmingham
8: Wylam Brewery, Newcastle
9: SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow
11: Y Plas, Cardiff
12: SWX, Bristol
13: MK11, Milton Keynes
14: Junction, Cambridge
16: Lemon Grove, Exeter
17: The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth
18: O2 Academy, Oxford
19: The Roundhouse, London