Villagers has just announced his first new album in three years, and now he’s a tour to go with it.
Conor O’Brien’s fourth album, ‘The Art of Pretending to Swim’ will be released on 21st September via Domino Records. He’ll then hit the road from 17th October, with a lengthy tour that includes a night at London’s Hackney Arts Centre.
OCTOBER
17 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
18 Art School, Glasgow
19 Gorilla, Manchester
21 Wardrobe, Leeds
22 O2 Academy 2, Oxford
23 Hackney Arts Centre, London
25 Arts Club, Liverpool
27 Metropolis Festival, RDS, Dublin
30 Trinity, Bristol
31 Old Market, Brighton
O’Brien wrote, produced, mixed and played most of the record himself in his Dublin studios, with the album said to see him returning to the ‘multi-faceted’ sound of first two albums ‘Becoming a Jackal’ and ‘{Awayland}’.
Check out the first single from the record, ‘A Trick of the Light’ below.