Over-the-top Australian dance duo Confidence Man have announced a new album, 3AM (La La La), which will be out October 18 via their new label home Casablanca Records. “It’s a fucked up sort of world,” says the group’s Sugar Bones. “It’s 3am, it’s never not 3am, and we party all the time.”
Some fans of ’90s rave culture might wonder if “3AM” is a reference to The KLF, and it is; that group’s Jimmy Cauty worked on 3AM (La La La)‘s title track. “I don’t think he’d been to a gig in 25 years and he came to see us at the Roundhouse in London,” says Janet Planet. “He’s been mentoring us a bit ever since.”
Confidence Man says ’90s club culture informed the whole album. “We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked,” says Planet. “We’d get blasted and stay up till 9am coming up with music, but we noticed that 3am was the hottest time for when we were on it and the best ideas were coming out.”
With the album announcement comes new single “I Can’t Lose You” and its video, which has the Sugar Bones and Janet Planet flying in a helicopter naked. (No green screens, they really did it.) Watch that below.
Confidence Man’s 2024 tour schedule includes appearances at Outside Lands in San Francisco and Osheaga in Montreal. All dates are listed below.
3AM (LA LA LA)
1. WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU’LL FIND?
2. I CAN’T LOSE YOU
3. CONTROL
4. SO WHAT
5. BREAKBEAT
6. SICKO
7. REAL MOVE TOUCH (FEAT SWEETIE IRIE)
8. FAR OUT
9. JANE
10. SO TRU
11. WRONG IDEA
12. 3AM (LA LA LA)
CONFIDENCE MAN – 2024 TOUR DATES
14/06/2024 FLASH IBIZA, ES
18/06/2024 CHALK BRIGHTON, GB
20/06/2024 PRINCESS PAVILION FALMOUTH, GB
22/06/2024 EXETER PHOENIX EXETER, GB
26/06/2024 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2024 PILTON, GB
01/08/2024 ALL TOGETHER NOW 2024 PORTLAW, IE
02/08/2024 OSHEAGA MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL 2024 MONTRÉAL, CA
09/08/2024 OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL 2024 SAN FRANCISCO, US
15/08/2024 PUKKELPOP 2024 HASSELT, BE
16/08/2024 LOWLANDS FESTIVAL 2024 BIDDINGHUIZEN, NL
21/08/2024 RICHFIELD AVENUE READING, GB
23/08/2024 READING FESTIVAL 2024 READING, GB
24/08/2024 LEEDS FESTIVAL 2024 LEEDS, GB
25/08/2024 BODY MOVEMENTS (DJ SET) LONDON, GB