Devon Welsh, former frontman of critically acclaimed art-pop duo Majical Cloudz, just announced a national tour starting this November, with stops in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and more - full tour dates below. The tour will follow the release of Devon's upcoming sophomore solo album True Love, out October 11 via his own record label You Are Accepted. He recently shared beautifully bittersweet single "Somebody Loves You"with Consequence of Sound, also performed at his powerful Paste Music & Daytrotter session.
In an age of collaborations and high-end production, Devon Welsh highlights the importance of the individual voice as an instrument in music with rigor, vulnerability, and grace. From 2010 to present, his body of work has pushed language to the fore in service of closing the space between artist and listener, prizing human connection above all. With his duo Majical Cloudz, Welsh found a huge audience for that vision: he released two critically-acclaimed LPs with Matador Records, and went from DIY house-show tours to playing arenas with Lorde. After disbanding Majical Cloudz in 2016, Welsh released his first critically praised solo album, Dream Songs in 2018, before leaving his longtime home of Montreal for rural Wisconsin. Upcoming album True Love strengthens the poetry, illumination, and appealing minimalism of Welsh's best work. Here he reflects on the ambiguous emotional spaces around love - romantic, platonic, internal; how love can be a game, a daydream, a paradise, or horror. Flipping the fantasy of "true love" that prevails through pop culture, Welsh set out to articulate the human heart from realer angles and depths.11/2: Chicago, IL @ Hideout
11/3: Bloomington, IN @ Bishop
11/4: Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
11/5: Atlanta, GA @ The Bakery
11/7: Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
11/8: Philadelphia, PA @ Pageant: Soloveev
11/9: New York, NY @ Public Records
11/10: Boston, MA @ Lily Pad
11/14: Seattle, WA @ Auditorium*
11/16: Vancouver, BC @ Paradise*
11/17: Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios*
11/20: Oakland, CA @ Crystal Cavern*
11/21: Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg*
11/22: Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place*
Photo Credit: NIKA
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