KODALINE ANNOUNCE BRAND NEW ALBUM
RECORDED LIVE IN DUBLIN’S OLYMPIA THEATRE
RELEASED OCTOBER 14TH VIA FANTASY
Kodaline are set to release a new stripped-down 17 track live album on October 14th 2022 called ‘Our Roots Run Deep’. Pre-Order available HERE.
When Kodaline stepped on stage at Dublin’s cozy, sold-out Olympia Theatre in early March 2022, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist, Steve Garrigan; bassist/vocalist, Jason Boland; guitarist/vocalist, Mark Prendergast; and drummer/vocalist Vinny May felt a deep sense of renewal, of their friendship, their brotherhood, and their musical community.
The beloved Irish quartet also felt a sense of release. Two years of pandemic-related separation, from each other, and the audience they had meticulously built since 2011, had underscored how essential that symbiotic relationship really is.
It’s that sense of release that permeates Our Roots Run Deep, Kodaline’s brand-new, stripped-down, 17-track live album and Fantasy Records debut, due October 14th, 2022. Pre-Order available HERE.
Produced with pristine clarity by fellow Irish cohort, Phillip Magee, Our Roots Run Deep features a cross-section of the group’s most treasured tunes and three illuminating covers in over 80-minutes of music.
“This album is something we’ve wanted to do for a very long-time, it’s also something entirely new to us,” explain the band. “It’s a stripped-down acoustic show with no click, which basically means, it’s very raw and unfiltered. We wanted to try and capture the energy and atmosphere of the night as best we could. It was an intimate show recorded in one of our favourite venues in the world, in Dublin City at home in Ireland. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed playing it.”
Known for the soaring, sing-along pop-rock anthems and lush, yearning ballads that have topped radio and streaming charts around the globe, for these special intimate performances Kodaline utilized largely acoustic instruments including cellist, David Doyle and keyboardist/vocalist, David Prendergast who help give the warm, living room sound added layers of texture and depth.
The quieter musical beds pushed the band’s emotionally driven lyrics and intricately woven harmonies to the forefront, deepening their poignant resonance even further. It also left room for the voices of their ecstatic fans, who filled the open spaces every chance they could!
While too plentiful to list in full, the set’s highlights include the highly apropos opener ‘Wherever You Are,’ the lead track from their latest LP, 2020’s One Day At A Time, ‘High Hopes,’ the lead single from the band’s debut album, 2013’s In A Perfect World and ‘Brother,’ a moving cut from the group’s third studio album, Politics of Living, which is now being released as the first track from Our Roots Run Deep.
The band include three interesting and revealing covers here as well: a brooding, dramatic turn on Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean,’ a mostly a cappella performance of Sam Cooke’s soul classic ‘Bring It On Home To Me,’ and a taste of ‘Dirty Old Town,’ the near Irish standard popularized by The Dubliners and The Pogues.
Our Roots Run Deep will be released digitally and in an array of physical formats including CD / Standard Cream LP / Limited Indie & HMV Maroon LP / Irish Exclusive Green LP as well as special fan bundles available at kodaline.com including limited signed prints & exclusive double cassette.
Kodaline have announced an extensive ‘Our Roots Run Deep’ European headline tour running through October and November 2022. Full dates are listed below, and tickets are on sale now at https://kodaline.com/
JUNE 2022 SHOWS
30 Lancashire – Lytham Festival
OUR ROOTS RUN DEEP TOUR DATES 2022
October
- 05 Strasbourg – La Laiterie
- 06 Brussels – Ancienne Belgique
- 07 Tilburg – 013
- 08 Cologne – Carlswerk Victoria
- 10 Hamburg – Fabrik
- 12 Stockholm – Slaktkyrkan
- 13 Oslo – Rockefeller
- 14 Copenhagen – Vega Main Hall
- 15 Berlin – Astra
- 17 Poznan – Tama
- 18 Warsaw – Stodola
- 19 Vienna – Gasometer
- 20 Krakow – Studio
- 22 Budapest – Akvarium Klub
- 24 Prague – Forum
- 25 Munich – Tonhalle
- 26 Frankfurt – Batschkapp
November
- 11 Madrid – Riviera
- 13 Milan – Fabrique
- 14 Bologna – Estragon
- 15 Rome – Orion
- 17 Lyon – Le Transbordeur
- 18 Stuttgart – Longhorn
- 19 Luxembourg – Den Atelier
- 20 Zurich – X-Tra
- 22 Paris – Bataclan
- 23 Amsterdam – Paradiso
Watch the live performance video of ‘Brother’ Below
