The Low Anthem began their US spring tour last night with the first of several sold-out shows with Iron and Wine. This weekend, The Low Anthem can also be heard on NPR stations across the country as their recent performance on Mountain Stage premieres; Lucinda Williams is also on the show. The band closed out its European tour at a sold-out show at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, to which the Guardian and the Independent both gave four stars. You can now watch the video for "Boeing 737" here.
The Low Anthem began their US spring tour last night with the first of several sold-out shows with Iron and Wine, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan. The tour with Iron and Wine continues through the end of the month, when The Low Anthem performs at New Orleans Jazz Fest then launches a headlining tour of its own. Several dates with Mumford & Sons are scheduled for later this spring. For details, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
This weekend, The Low Anthem can also be heard on NPR stations across the country as their recent performance on Mountain Stage premieres. Also on the show is an acoustic set from Lucinda Williams and performances from Red Horse (John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, and Eliza Gilkyson), Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, and Ivan & Alyosha. To find out where Mountain Stage is airing on a station near you, visit mountainstage.org.
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The Low Anthem closed out its European tour earlier this week with a sold-out show at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Consequence of Sound calls it "a compelling set, illuminated by a remarkable standard of musicianship." The Guardian gives the concert four stars, as does the Independent.
"It all begins beautifully," says the Independent's Warren Howard, before some technical difficulties with the sound system forced a change of plans. Even that glitch led to good things led the band to improvise a full-on unplugged set. "They head up the steps into the heart of the auditorium," Howard reports, "and in the half-light, busk a wonderful mini-set of rousing folk songs."
Read the complete review at independent.co.uk.
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The video for "Boeing 737," off The Low Anthem's latest Nonesuch release, Smart Flesh, premiered on SPIN.com last week and is now available below via the band's YouTube channel and can be seen at nonesuch.com/media. To create the new video, the team at End of the Road Films took to a deep forest in rural Scotland. Here, a flock of wire-walkers move through the skies as they are pursued by a band of circus men. Feathers fly and axes swing as the graceful figures are brought plummeting down to Earth. Featured in the video is the world-renowned high-wire walker Jade Kindar-Martin.
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