_Magdalena Wosinska_

Dawes have announced they will release their new studio album, Passwords, on June 22 via their own HUB Records, following up 2016’s We’re All Gonna Die and marking the sixth studio release for the band. The group also released a live album We’re All Gonna Live last year.

Passwords was produced with the help of Jonathan Wilson, who also worked with Dawes on their first two studio albums, and is billed as “an album for and about the modern age: the relationships that fill it, the politics that divide it, and the small victories and big losses that give it shape.”

“We’re living in such a unique moment in history,” lead singer and songwriter Taylor Goldsmith says. “Many of these songs are an attempt to come to terms with the modern world, while always trying to consider both sides of the story. Songs can be passwords, because they’re a means of giving access to someone else’s perspective, thereby elaborating your own.”

See the Passwords tracklist and preview clip below, along with Dawes’ tour schedule, which includes a run of dates with Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra.

Passwords Tracklisting

1. Living in the Future
2. Stay Down
3. Crack the Case
4. Feed the Fire
5. My Greatest Invention
6. Telescope
7. I Can’t Love
8. Mistakes We Should Have Made
9. Never Gonna Say Goodbye
10. Time Flies Either Way

Dawes Tour Dates

May 20 Houston, TX—The Great Texas BBQ Festival
August 2Oakland, CA—Oracle Arena*
August 4 Los Angeles, CA—The Forum*
August 5 Los Angeles, CA—The Forum*
August 8 Denver, CO—Pepsi Center*
August 10 Houston, TX—Toyota Center*
August 13 Dallas, TX—American Airlines Center*
August 15 Chicago, IL—Allstate Arena*
August 16 Detroit, MI—Little Caesars Arena*
August 17 Wellston, MI—Hoxeyville Music Festival
August 18 Toronto, ON—Air Canada Centre*
August 21 New York, NY—Madison Square Garden*
August 22 New York, NY—Madison Square Garden*
August 23 Vienna, VA—Wolf Trap&
August 24 Philadelphia, PA—Wells Fargo Center*
September 15 Fredericton, NB, Canada—Harvest Jazz And Blues Festival
September 16 Canton, MA—Festival At The Farm
September 22 Franklin, TN—Pilgrimage Music Festival

  • w/ Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra

& w/ Shovels & Rope