WATCH AND SHARE “LIVING ROOM” HERE
BUY / STREAM THE NEON SKYLINE HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED TODAY
“Living Room” video still by Anne Douris
Last year, Andy Shauf released one of 2020’s most highly praised albums. Neon Skyline, released on Arts & Crafts, was beloved by fans and critics alike, and earned glowing year-end praise from Esquire, Stereogum, Consequence, Uproxx, The Atlantic, Paste, and more. Today, he is sharing the new video for one of its highlights, “Living Room”.
In the song, “a polite question about a friend’s kid...turns into a hallucinogenic vision quest about death and reincarnation and living out our parents’ mistakes” (Pitchfork). Director Anne Douris visualizes this generational fear in its video. Douris elaborates:
“This is a story about growing up lonely. In particular, it's about how wage labour - the business of having to work to survive - shapes our lives from the moment we are born. I think we mistake childhood as being a time of ‘freedom’ when actually our lives are entangled in the struggle of working adults. So I wanted to weave together these scenes of childhood solitude, foggy recollections of being left alone in our empty house, where playfulness and imagination are tainted by fear. Fear of the dark, fear of abandonment, fear of loss. Visually inspired by the NFB cartoons I devoured as a kid, I wanted it to feel like an old worn out memory, discoloured by time and distorted each time it's remembered. Like these memories that we don't share with anyone else are more vulnerable - ephemeral to the point of disintegrating.”
WATCH AND SHARE “LIVING ROOM” HERE
This fall, Andy Shauf will prepare to head back out on tour with stops throughout North America. Full tour dates can be found below, tickets are available to purchase here.
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TOUR DATES
Sep. 9, 2021 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Sep. 10, 2021 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Sep. 14, 2021 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre *
Sep. 15, 2021 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Calvin College *
Sep. 16, 2021 - Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
Sep. 17, 2021 - Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop *
Feb. 3, 2022 - Ottawa, ON @ Bronson Centre
Feb. 4, 2022 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
Feb. 5, 2022 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Feb. 6, 2022 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Feb. 17, 2022 - Sheffield, MA @ Race Brook Lodge
Feb. 18, 2022 - Woodstock, NY @ Colony Cafe
Feb. 20, 2022 - Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern Music Hall
Feb. 22, 2022 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Feb. 23, 2022 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
Feb. 24, 2022 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
Feb. 25, 2022 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Mar. 30, 2022 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
Mar. 31, 2022 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Apr. 3, 2022 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Apr. 18, 2022 - Düdingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
Apr. 20, 2022 - Mérignac, FR @ Le Krakatoa
Apr. 21, 2022 - Paris, FR @ Trianon
Apr. 22, 2022 - Rouen, FR @ Le 106
Apr. 23, 2022 - Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU @ Kulturfabrik
Apr. 24, 2022 - Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg
Apr. 25, 2022 - Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
Apr. 26, 2022 - Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
Apr. 28, 2022 - Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
Apr. 29, 2022 - Oslo, NO @ Ingensteds
Apr. 30, 2022 - Stockholm, SE @ Nalen Klubb
May 2, 2022 - Hamburg, DE @ Knust
May 3, 2022 - Berlin, DE @ Silent Green
May 5, 2022 - Bruxelles, BE @ Les Nuits Botanique Festival
May 6, 2022 - Cologne, DE @ Luxor
May 7, 2022 - Genk, BE @ Little Waves Festival
May 9, 2022 - Birmingham, UK @ The Castle & Falcon
May 10, 2022 - Edinburgh, UK @ Summerhall
May 11, 2022 - Glasgow, UK @ Drygate
May 12, 2022 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
May 13, 2022 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
May 14, 2022 - Bristol, UK @ Fiddlers
May 15, 2022 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
May 16, 2022 - London, UK @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire
May 18, 2022 - Belfast, UK @ Em in pire
May 19, 2022 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
*= tickets on sale May 14th at 10am local time
PRAISE FOR THE NEON SKYLINE
“The Neon Skyline is a crystallization of everything Shauf has been working meticulously to perfect throughout his rise to international acclaim — his characterization, world-building and ear for arrangements. Shauf's ability to imbue his characters with plenty of nuance, quirk, charm and flaw in brisk scenes is impressive enough, but his need to craft full worlds around them put him head and shoulders above his peers." - Exclaim!
"The Neon Skyline is wistful, but also sweet, philosophical, self-deprecating and very relatable." - NOW Toronto (NNNNN)
“A gifted singer-songwriter. More than that, a gifted storyteller.” - NPR Music
“When he sings about an intimate story transporting him into someone else’s home, you feel like you’re there with him.” - Pitchfork
“All singer-songwriters are storytellers of a sort, but neither term does justice to what Andy Shauf accomplishes on The Neon Skyline. ” - Stereogum
“Listening to an Andy Shauf album in full is akin to bingeing a particularly compelling TV show: Both pull you in with characters that feel just as real as you or me, who populate a world we’d like to escape to.” - Paste
“Andy Shauf’s songs are charming tales of everyday life. . . perhaps the least pretentious concept album you'll find.” - Esquire
“The Neon Skyline is a wise and transportive album, with Shauf taking his place among the great contemporary songwriters.” - Uproxx