King Hannah have shared a second single from their anticipated second album, Big Swimmer. If the title track, a Sharon Van Etten collab, is the album’s prettiest song, “Davey Says” is one of its grungiest, a garage rock song where the video has them playing in an actual garage.
“We wanted this to be a raucous, fuzzy, light-hearted moment in the album, but to still have that feeling of ‘youcandoanything-ness,’” says singer/guitarist Hannah Merrick. “The opening line ‘Meet me before the party, I don’t want to walk in alone’ is our attempt at that classic American 90’s imagery, of coming-of-age nostalgia and romance, of late warm summer nights when the future is draped in front of you.” Watch the video below.
Big Swimmer is out May 31 via City Slang, and King Hannah will be in North America this summer for a few dates ahead of their appearance at Quebec City’s Festival D’été de Québec, first playing Chicago’s Empty Bottle on June 29 and Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Zone 1 on July 2.
Tickets for both shows go on sale Friday, April 19 at 10 AM local time. The band say more will be announced soon — a fall tour perhaps? All dates are listed below.
KING HANNAH TOUR DATES
May 17 + 18 – The Great Escape: Brighton (UK)
June 29 – Empty Bottle: Chicago
July 2 – Elsewhere Zone 1: Brooklyn
July 4 – Festival D’été de Québec: Quebec City (QC)
July 5 – La Noce Festival: Chicoutimi (QC)
July 17 – Botanique: Bologna (IT)
July 18 – Piazza delle Feste/Mojotic: Genova (IT)
July 20 – TVSpenta dal vivo: Rapolano Terme (Siena) (IT)
July 21 – Triennale Milano: Milano (IT)
August 29 – Strange Brew: Bristol (UK)
August 30 – End of the Road: Dorset (UK)
September 5 – Lido: Berlin (DE)
September 6 – Vega (Ideal Bar): Copenhagen (DK)
September 8 – Paard: Den Haag (NL)
September 9 – Paradiso: Amsterdam (NL)
September 11 – Effenaar: Eindhoven (NL)
September 12 – La Maroquinerie: Paris (FR)
September 13 – AB Club: Brussels (BE)
September 14 – Reflektor: Liège (BE)
September 15 – Leffinge Leuren: Leffinge (BE)
September 17 – AFF@Bootstraat: Hasselt (BE)
September 18 – Vera: Groningen (NL)
September 19 – Café Glocksee: Hannover (DE)
September 25 – Rich Mix: London (UK)