Jamie Lidell Shares New Track; Album and Tour to Follow

Jamie Lidell is sharing "Why_ya_why," a new song from his highly-anticipated self-titled album, out February 19 on Warp Records. You can check out the song here http://soundcloud.com/warp-records/jamie-lidell-why_ya_whyand here http://youtu.be/mNY5jJv57MQ.

In celebration of the album, Lidell will embark on a world tour kicking off in London on March 8. The tour will include stops in France, Germany and Turkey before making its way to the U.S. Please see tour dates below.

The first track off the album, "What a Shame," recently premiered on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQxGnSqxTyA&feature=youtu.be. Pitchfork named the song a "Best New Track," hailing it as "a bright burst of kaleidoscopic color...a positively mean makeup of big, booming bass and squelchy synths that glisten and gleam underneath Lidell's high-octane whine," and Stereogum praised Lidell's "honeyed falsetto all over a wriggling post-dubstep drunken monster of a track." Known for bringing together disparate musical influences, Jamie Lidell cites Mtume, Cameo, New Jack Swing, Bobby Brown and George Clinton as inspirations for the new release saying "I referenced a lot of the analogue synth tones of the records I really love." The album was recorded and mixed in Lidell's new recording studio in his new home in Nashville, where the he recently moved after stints in Berlin and New York.

Born and raised in England, Jamie Lidell debuted in 1997 with the EP Freekin the Fame. The upcoming recording is the fifth full-length release from the critically acclaimed artist, whose previous records have been praised by the New York Times as "exceedingly precise and lovely," including 2008's Jim, which was named Best Pop/Rock Album by the Independent Music Awards. In addition to his solo albums, Lidell has released music with producer Cristian Vogel under the name Super Collider. He has also collaborated with artists including Feist, Simian Mobile Disco, Beck, Matthew Herbert, Chris Taylor, James Gadson and Gonzalez.

Jamie Lidell is now available for pre-order on Amazon as a CD here http://glnk.it/1ss and on iTunes here http://glnk.it/1rk.

March 8 London, United Kingdom Heaven

March 13 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso

March 15 Paris, France Gaite Lyrique

March 16 Cologne, Germany Stollwork

March 17 Brussels, Belgium AB

March 19 Hamburg, Germany Gruenspan

March 20 Berlin, Germany Kesselhaus

March 21 Munich, Germany Ampere

March 22 Zurich, Switzerland M4 Music

March 23 Istanbul, Turkey Salon Iksv

March 28 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex

March 29 San Francisco, CA The Independent

March 30 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge

April 1 Seattle, WA Neumos

April 2 Vancouver, BC Fortune Sound Club

April 5 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Club

April 6 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall

April 9 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace

April 11 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall

April 12 Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel

April 13 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg

April 14 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer