DMA’s at the Electric Ballroom in London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
The DMA’s have celebrated the release of their new album For Now with a video for its title-track.
Out today, the band’s second studio LP was recorded in New South Wales with producer Kim Moyes, and it’ll spark a run of UK dates from tonight in Nottingham.
“Blissful neo-psychedelia pervades the album – so much so that it sounds like instant nostalgia, recreating images of the halcyon summers of youth that never were but feel otherwise,” Live4ever’s review reads. “The opening track of the same name explodes like a blast of sunlight through grey clouds in an uncannily similar way to the Stone Roses, while In The Air is a dreamy, woozy ballad built around a piercing yet mournful guitar lick.”
“The Britpop and Madchester comparisons are hard to avoid; on Do I Need You Now? vocalist Tommy O’Dell’s vocals eerily echo Tom Clarke of the The Enemy. Sure, it’s cribbing from post-Britpop, but ten years on it’s probably OK. Likewise Break Me, which steals a chorus or two from Kasabian.”
Tour dates:
April
27 – Rock City, Nottingham
28 – Academy, Manchester
29 – Northumbria Institute, Newcastle
May
1 – 02 Forum, Kentish Town London
4 – The Tramshed, Cardiff
5 – Liverpool Sound City
7 – The Junction, Cambridge
8 – The Waterfront, Norwich
9 – Leeds Beckett University, Leeds
10 – 02 Academy, Oxford
21 – 02 Academy, Bristol
22 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
23 – Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
25 – The 02 Institute, Birmingham
26 – The Plug, Sheffield
27 – Neighbourhood Weekender
June
29 – Finsbury Park w/ Liam Gallagher
August
24 – Leeds Festival
25 – Bellahouston Park, Glasgow
26 – Reading Festival
