The Jezabels have announced that their second album, 'The Brink' will be released on February 17 2014 via Play It Again Sam.
'The Brink' was summoned from a dark place; despite the outstanding success of their masterful trio of debut EPs and then their first long player, 'Prisoner', which catapulted them from indie kudos to full blown mainstream success. The two solid years of international touring played a huge part in forming the abyss that welcomed the band when they pulled into their new base, London, at the end of that marathon cycle of gold, platinum, headline sold-out shows and festivals.
"We played between 180 and 200 shows last year and it was possibly a bit extreme," says vocalist Hayley Mary. "But the low came from not performing. We basically had a year off and I realised how much I live to do shows. For me, writing is the self-deprecating, self-loathing stage. We all had our reasons for feeling low at various times, but I felt like I was on the brink of a lot of things on this album. Some of them good, some of them bad: youth and age, alternative and pop, giving up and pushing through. I guess hope is part of that. And also fear."
It is these feelings and this precipitous state that the band have distilled into 'The Brink'. Produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat (Radiohead, Lana Del Rey, The Vaccines, Hurts), 'The Brink' is an album of songs that manifest all of those emotions into vaulting ambition. It is an utterly fearless record of youthful optimism achieved through hard won experience, taut with gleaming hooks, indelible melodies, all hammered out by a tight-knit band through dark days in a strange new city.
From album opener and title track 'The Brink' via the first single 'The End', to the closing bars of the finale 'All You Need', The Jezabels second album is a thrilling affirmation. It is a death defying balance of optimism and maturity; richness and simplicity. It is a the journey of a band dealing with loss of innocence, mortality, politics, isolation and unity all spun with silken ‘pop’ threads, which Hayley sees as being given to them through a greater appreciation of simplicity.
UK/EUROPE TOUR 2014
FEBRUARY 2014
Mon 24 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Tue 25 Manchester Gorilla
Wed 26 Glasgow Oran Mor
Fri 28 Belfast, NI Limelight 2
MARCH 2014
Sat 01 Dublin, Eire The Button Factory
Sun 02 Dublin, Eire The Button Factory
Tue 04 Bristol The Fleece
Wed 05 London Shepherds Bush Empire
Thu 06 Brighton Concorde 2
Sat 08 Brussels, Belgium Botanique Orangerie
Sun 09 Rotterdam, Netherlands Rotown
Tue 11 Paris, France La Maroquinerie
Wed 12 Amsterdam, Netherlands Bitterzoet
Fri 14 Hamburg, Germany Uebel & Gefährlich
Sat 15 Berlin, Germany Astra
Sun 16 Frankfurt, Germany Sankt Peter
Tue 18 Munich, Germany Freiheiz
Wed 19 Zürich, Switzerland Komplex Klub
Thu 20 Cologne, Germany Gebaude 9
Main support from CHAMPS on all UK & Eire shows
Watch the video for the single release (out December 2), 'The End' below.
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