Half Moon Run announce new album and world tour

“I think this album still has the sound people expect from us, balanced with more experimentation,” notes drummer/multi-instrumentalist Dylan Phillips.  “We’ve been diving deep into some styles that we haven’t necessarily explored before. Things get a little heavier, a little harder.”

Half Moon Run performing at Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival

The Montreal-based, psyche indie-rock quartet, are also offering up another brand new song, “Flesh and Blood” with another new video directed by Sacha Roy. The video will be premiered on YouTubeat 12:00pm EST September 16, but the lyric video is available HERE. Between 11:040am and 12:00pm EST, fan can do a Q & A with band members about the upcoming video and album. Subscribe HERE to get notified.

A Blemish in the Great Light is available to PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE NOW. As a special thank you, anyone who pre-orders the album direct from the band’s site until September 16 will get a special code for early access to the ticket pre-sale, before it opens up to the rest of the Half Moon Run mailing list on September 17.
The general on-sale for the newly announced dates is September 20, 2019 at 10 am local time.

The band has also expanded their already impressive tour itinerary into 2020, adding in another 20 international, headline shows. Half Moon Run have partnered with PLUS1so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to Project Peanut Butter (PPB) and the treatment of severe acute malnutrition through effective, locally produced, ready-to-use therapeutic foods. WATCH the new Half Moon Run tour trailer HERE

Half Moon Run also announced an intimate warm-up show for fans in Longueuil, Quebec on September 18 and a very special hometown Halloween show at MTelus in Montreal on October 31st. Fans are invited to come in costume and can expect a surprise…

Previous single/video “Then Again” produced by Joe Chiccarelli (Jack White/The Shins), was revealed recently. “Then Again” was the first official new music from Half Moon Run since a hint of something new earlier this year, and before their 43 date international tour began. Their previous, sophomore album, Sun Leads Me On, produced by Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys) was released in late 2015. AllMusicpraised the album’s “more cosmopolitan approach,” while Mojo acknowledged that “the scenery is damned fine.” Lead single “Turn Your Love” became the band’s first Top Ten hit at Canadian Alt-Rock Radio, made the Alist at BBC Radio 1, and was #1 at Triple-J in Australia. Half Moon Run earned a 2016 Juno Award nomination for Breakthrough Group of the Year. Their 2012 (remastered in 2013) debut Dark Eyesis Platinum in Canada, Sun Leads Me On has sold Gold and each album has earned international accolades and global critical praise for the band.

Half Moon Run performing at Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival

“Half Moon Run demonstrated why they have a reputation for technical prowess…Just as impressive is how effortless they make it look and how unpretentious they appear, as though they’re really just earnestly exploring sounds in all their possible configurations…They played groovy, heartland rock songs complete with guitar solos; alt-country numbers that featured slide guitars; atmospheric, slow spacey songs; noisy kraut songs and some wavy psych stuff.” – Exclaim, 2019

Later this month Half Moon Run will take fellow Canadians Tim Baker to open all of the US headline shows and Leif Vollebekk to open over the European/UK dates. Some shows have already. SOLD OUT. The full listing of the just announced World Tour dates are also included below along with support acts of Taylor Janzen and Shey Baba.

August 9: Gaspé, QC @ Festival Musique de Bout de Monde
August 10: Rimouski, QC @ Salle Desjardins Telus
August 28: Sherbrooke, QC @ Théâtre Granada# SOLD OUT
August 30: Rouyn-Noranda, QC @ FME
August 31: Rouyn-Noranda, QC @ FME  SOLD OUT
September 27: San Diego, CA @ Casbah*
September 28: Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom*
September 29: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent*
October 2: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge*
October 4: Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater*
October 5: Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room*
October 7: St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House*
October 9: Nashville, TN @ Exit In*
October 10: Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar*
October 11: Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall*
October 14: Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at the Fillmore*
October 16: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom*
October 18: South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground*
October 19: Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall*
November 6: Bristol, UK @ SWX^
November 7: London, UK @ Electric Brixton^ SOLD OUT
November 8: Glasgow, UK @ The Garage^
November 9: Manchester, UK @O2 Ritz^
November 13: Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso^ SOLD OUT
November 14: Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso^
November 16: Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall^
November 17: Hamburg, Germany @Markthalle^
November 19: Berlin, Germany @Festsaal Kreuzberg^
November 21: Munich, Germany @ Technikum^
November 22: Vienna, Austria @ Arena^
November 23: Zurich, Switzerland @ X-Tra^
January 10: Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom#
January 11: Seattle, WA @ Neumos#
January 14: Victoria, BC @ Royal Theatre#
January 15: Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre#
January 17: Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall#
January 18: Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre#
January 19: Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Centre#
January 21: Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre#
January 23: St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall#
January 24: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall#
January 25: Detroit, MI @ El Club#
January 28: London, ON @ London Music Hall# 
January 30: Toronto, ON @ Rebel Night Club#
January 31: Ottawa, ON @ The Arena at TD Place#
February 20: Stockholm, Sweden @ Nalen%
February 21: Oslo, Norway @ Rockfeller%
February 22: Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega%
February 24: Warsaw, Poland @ Niebo%
February 25: Krakow, Poland @ Kwadrat%
February 26: Leipzig, Germany @ Täubchenthal%
February 28: Prague, Czech Republic @ Rock Café%
February 29: Frankfurt, Germany @ Batschkapp%
March 1: Milan, Italy @ Magnolia%
March 2: Bologna, Italy @ Locomotiv%
March 5: Lyon, France @ Epicerie Moderne%
March 6: Barcelona, Spain @ La Nau%
March 7: Madrid, Spain @ Caracol%
March 10: Lille, France @ Le Grand Mix%
March 12: London, UK @ Roundhouse%

*w/ Tim Baker
^ w/ Leif Vollebekk
# w/ Taylor Janzen
% w/ Shey Baba