WATCH STURGILL
SIMPSON’S MESMERISING NEW VIDEO FOR
THE
PROMISE + UK TOUR ANNOUNCED
Napoleon Dynamite fans may recognise The Promise as
being that song
soundtracking the film’s closing scene. 80s New Wave aficionados may
simply know it for being Manchester band, When In Rome’s lone US hit single. On Sturgill
Simpson’s new album, “Metamodern Sounds In Country Music” (out now on Loose
Music), the Kentucky born singer takes the song apart and puts it back together
in a distinctly non-New Wave type way, making you believe that this is the way
it was always meant to be.
“One of my favorite country songs of the year isn’t even a country
song…” says The Fader on Sturgill’s reworking of The Promise. (Fader’s recent profile on Sturgill marked the
first time a country artist had ever been featured in the magazine.) “Promise you’ll stick around to his yell at
3:40; nothing tops it”, they advise.
Allow yourself to be transfixed by Sturgill in this
brand new video for The Promise, shot and edited by Graham Uhelski:
http://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820
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Sturgill will be bringing his band over to the UK
for the first time this autumn. Tickets for October tour dates are now on sale
now.
SUMMER
TOUR DATES 2014
29
Jun – GLASTONBURY
FESTIVAL
24 Jul – LONDON, Bush Hall
25 Jul – SHEFFIELD, Greystones
26 Jul – PERTH, Southern Fried Festival
27 Jul – AMSTERDAM, Paradiso
24 Jul – LONDON, Bush Hall
25 Jul – SHEFFIELD, Greystones
26 Jul – PERTH, Southern Fried Festival
27 Jul – AMSTERDAM, Paradiso
UK TOUR
OCTOBER 2014 (FULL BAND)
30
Sep – NOTTINGHAM,
The Maze
01 Oct – BRISTOL, St. Bonaventure’s
02 Oct – LIVERPOOL, Leaf
03 Oct – CORK, Triskel Arts Centre
04 Oct – DUBLIN, Whelan’s
05 Oct – GLASGOW, Oran Mor
06 Oct – GATESHEAD, The Sage
01 Oct – BRISTOL, St. Bonaventure’s
02 Oct – LIVERPOOL, Leaf
03 Oct – CORK, Triskel Arts Centre
04 Oct – DUBLIN, Whelan’s
05 Oct – GLASGOW, Oran Mor
06 Oct – GATESHEAD, The Sage
THE PROMISE PRESS QUOTES
Simpson’s music is soul-stirring even when he sticks to the script. He
exerts a powerful command of his genre’s weepiest forms, and “The Promise” is
as fine an example as any. STEREOGUM
“One of my favorite country songs of the year isn’t even a country song…
Promise you’ll stick around to his yell at 3:40; nothing tops it.” THE FADER
“[Sturgill] manages to turn
When In Rome’s 1988 one-hit wonder into a tender (and barely recognizable)
ballad.”
PASTE
“a soaring, deeply felt
honky-tonk reworking of U.K. pop band When in Rome’s lone hit”
SPIN
“The Promise feels indebted to
Johnny Cash’s late-in-life career turn remaking unlikely artists’ songs in his
inimitable style, right down to Simpson’s pulpy murmur.”
NEW YORK
TIMES
“The best moment [on Metamodern
Sounds] may be the most unlikely: a cover of the 1988 post-New Wave hit
“The Promise”. Simpson delivers it with gentle stalwartness, testifying
powerfully to the magnitude of love. The Mellotron string section swoops in to
add some earthly drama to an emotion that might just explain the entire
universe.”
PITCHFORK
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