Dawes Announces New Album We’re All Gonna Die; Releases Video “When The Tequila Runs Out”

Dawes, the Southern California folk-rock juggernaut whose song “All Your Favorite Bands” topped our list of Best Songs of 2015, returns September 16 with a new full-length album called We’re All Gonna Die.

The project, which is being released on the band’s own HUB Records, was produced by Blake Mills and recorded at EastWest Studios and The Boat in Los Angeles. Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Will Oldham (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy), Lucius, and Mandy Moore guest on the album.

“These songs were all written in a very short period of time, very close together,” singer and guitarist Taylor Goldsmith says of the project. “In that sense I feel like there was a consistency in mood and outlook our other records don’t have. Pretty much every song on this record explores a difficult situation and tries to find a way to find the good in it, or at least remind yourself that it’s not always that big of a deal. After all, as scary as it is, we are all gonna die.”

Below, watch the video for “When The Tequila Runs Out,” and check out the band’s August and September tour dates.

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE TRACK LIST
1. One Of Us
2. We’re All Gonna Die
3. Roll With The Punches
4. Picture Of A Man
5. Less Than Fives Miles Away
6. Roll Tide
7. When The Tequila Runs Out
8. For No Good Reason
9. Quitter
10. As If By Design

DAWES LIVE
August 17—New York, NY—PBS Front and Center Taping
August 20—Albany, NY—Hart Theatre At The Egg
August 22—Philadelphia, PA—Main Street Music†
August 23— Baltimore, MD—The Sound Garden†
August 25—Nashville, TN—Live On The Green Music Festival
August 26—Florence, AL—Billy Reid Shindig
August 28—Tacoma, WA—Cheneyville Music Festival
August 29—Seattle, WA—Easy Street†
August 30— Portland, OR—Music Millennium†
August 31—San Francisco, CA—Amoeba Berkeley†
September 15—Long Beach, CA—Fingerprints†
September 16—Los Angeles, CA— The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery*
September 19—New York, NY—The McKittrick Hotel*
September 23—Peoria, IL—Limelight
September 24—Chicago, IL—312 Urban Block Party

†Record Store acoustic performance (pre-order to enter)
*Album release shows