The Head and The Heart announced their sixth LP, Aperture, due out on May 9 via Verve Forecast. It’s their first self-produced album since their self-titled 2011 debut, and the band’s Matty Gervais says, “I believe we’ve made a very great record together and obviously the title is an important aspect of the final product. For me, Aperture represents the choice we all must make between resigning ourselves to darkness, or letting the light in and recognizing our own agency to do so. It feels relevant to the times, in that we’re literally choosing between authoritarianism vs. democracy. Ignorance vs. enlightenment on a macro scale, and complacency/cynicism vs. hope, empathy and perseverance on the micro scale. To me, it sums up a lot of what each of these songs is grappling with in some form and what we’ve collectively gone through as a band. It’s about choosing hope again and again, no matter how many times it may feel that you have lost it.”
Aperture includes The Head and the Heart’s 2024 single “Arrow,” and they’ve shared another new track, “After The Setting Sun.” Gervais calls it an “an invitation to wake up in the present moment recognizing that it is all we have, in all its contradictions of beauty and pain, joy and despair, unfathomable vastness and impermanence.” Hear it below.
They’ve also announced a North American tour, beginning on May 31 in Detroit and wrapping up on October 10 in Knoxville. Futurebirds, Anna Graves, Wild Rivers, Marfa, Wilderado, Katie Pruitt, The Teskey Brothers, Tyler Ballgame, and John Vincent III each join them for select shows, and you can see all dates below.
The tour includes an NYC show at SummerStage at Central Park on July 30 (with Wild Rivers and Marfa), and an Asbury Park, NJ show at Stone Pony Summer Stage on July 31 (with Wilderado and Marfa). Tickets to those and all dates go on sale Friday, March 7 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting Tuesday, March 4 at 10 AM local.
THE HEAD AND THE HEART – APERTURE TRACKLIST
After The Setting Sun
Time With My Sins
Arrow
Beg Steal Borrow
Cop Car
Blue Embers
Fire Escape
Pool Break
Jubilee
West Coast
Finally Free
Aperture
THE HEAD AND THE HEART: 2025 TOUR DATES
5/31/25 – The Fillmore Detroit – Detroit, MI *
6/1/25 – History – Toronto, ON *
6/3/25 – MTELUS – Montreal, QC *
6/5/25 – MGM Music Hall at Fenway – Boston, MA *
6/6/25 – The Met Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA *
6/7/25 – The Fillmore, Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD *
6/9/25 – Coca-Cola Roxy – Atlanta, GA *
6/10/25 – The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre – St. Augustine, FL *
6/12/25 – The Fillmore New Orleans – New Orleans, LA *
6/13/25 – Gilley’s Dallas, South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX *
6/14/25 – Whitewater Amphitheatre – New Braunfels, TX *
6/15/25 – Bayou Music Center – Houston, TX *
6/18/25 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO *
6/19/25 – Palace Theatre – Saint Paul, MN *
6/20/25 – Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI (Festival)
7/15/25 – Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre – Charlotte, NC ^
7/16/25 – Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, NC ^
7/18/25 – Riverfront Park, Ascend Amphitheater – Nashville, TN ^
7/19/25 – Iroquois Amphitheater – Louisville, KY ^
7/20/25 – The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park – Cincinnati, OH ^
7/22/25 – Rabbit Rabbit – Asheville, NC ^
7/23/25 – KEMBA Live!, Outdoor Amphitheater – Columbus, OH ^
7/26/25 – Pines Theater – Northampton, MA ^
7/27/25 – Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks – Bethlehem, PA ^
7/30/25 – SummerStage in Central Park – New York, NY ^
7/31/25 – Stone Pony Summerstage – Asbury Park, NJ ~
8/1/25 – Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront – Richmond, VA ~
8/2/25 – Riverfront Park – Harrisburg, PA ~
8/3/25 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA ~
8/5/25 – Jacobs Pavilion – Cleveland, OH &
8/6/25 – Everwise Amphitheater – Indianapolis, IN &
8/8/25 – The Salt Shed, Fairgrounds – Chicago, IL &
8/10/25 – The Astro, Outdoor Amphitheater – La Vista, NE &
8/13/25 – Ogden Amphitheater – Ogden, UT &
8/14/25 – Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden – Boise, ID &
8/15/25 – Edgefield Amphitheater – Troutdale, OR &
8/16/25 – T-Mobile Park, Direct Support to Lumineers – Seattle, WA
9/11/25 – Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival – Fredericton, NB
9/24/25 – The Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA +
9/25/25 – Channel 24 – Sacramento, CA !
9/26/25 – Vina Robles Amphitheatre – Paso Robles, CA !
9/28/25 – Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA !
9/29/25 – Gallagher Square – San Diego, CA !
9/30/25 – Arizona Financial Theatre – Phoenix, AZ !
10/2/25 – Revel – Albuquerque, NM
10/4/25 – The Criterion – Oklahoma City, OK
10/5/25 – JJ’s Live – Fayetteville, AR
10/7/25 – The Lyric Oxford – Oxford, MS
10/10/25 – The Tennessee Theatre – Knoxville, TN
* Futurebirds and Anna Graves
^ Wild Rivers and Marfa
~ Wilderado and Marfa
& Wilderado and Katie Pruitt
+ The Teskey Brothers and Tyler Ballgame
! John Vincent III and Tyler Ballgame