The Naked and Famous band news

New Zealand quintet The Naked and Famous announce their sophomore album, In Rolling Waves, via Republic on Sept. 17. Lead single "Hearts Like Ours" was featured as Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record in the World Today" on BBC Radio 1.

In Rolling Waves follows the band's debut Passive Me, Aggressive You. With global sales of over 500,000, the album spawned a US Gold single, "Young Blood," and took the band's YouTube and Vevo views beyond 25 million.

Fronted by Alisa Xayalith (vocals/keyboards) and Thom Powers (guitar/vocals), The Naked and Famous was invited by M83 to remix a single and a Tiesto remix transformed "Young Blood" into a club smash.

Agencies fell into The Naked and Famous slipstream, and theirs became the go-to soundtrack for gaming, Hollywood and TV shows mining a zeitgeist of young and interesting. Twelve months previously, the band, including David Beadle (bass guitar), Jesse Wood (drums) and Aaron Short (keyboards), had been writing and recording songs in bedrooms on Auckland's North Shore.

By June 2012, The Naked and Famous had played to more than 600,000 people in 24 countries. After two years of near-constant touring, the New Zealand five-piece set up home in the Laurel Canyon area of LA to begin work on the new album.

The result was produced by Powers and Short, along with Justin Meldal-Johnsen (M83, Beck and NIN) with co-production on two tracks.

Track listing

1. A Stillness
2. Hearts Like Ours
3. Waltz
4. Rolling Waves
5. The Mess
6. Grow Old
7. Golden Girl
8.I Kill Giants
9. What We Want
10. We Are Leaving
11. To Move With Purpose
12. A Small Reunion

North American Tour

Sep 25 - San Diego CA, House of Blues
Sep 27 - Los Angeles CA, Wiltern
Sep 29 - Tucson AZ, Rialto Theater
Oct 1 - Dallas TX, House of Blues
Oct 2 - Austin TX, Stubbs
Oct 3 - Houston TX, House of Blues
Oct 5 - Atlanta GA, The Tabernacle
Oct 6 - Washington DC, 9:30 Club
Oct 8 - Philadelphia PA, Electric Factory
Oct 10 - New York NY, Terminal 5
Oct 12 - Boston MA, House of Blues
Oct 14 - Toronto ON, Sound Academy
Oct 16 - Chicago IL, Riviera Theater
Oct 18 - Denver CO, Fillmore Auditorium
Oct 20 - Vancouver BC, Orpheum Theatre
Oct 21 - Seattle WA, Showbox Sodo
Oct 22 - Portland OR, Roseland Theater
Oct 24 - Las Vegas NV, The Cosmopolitan
Oct 25 - Oakland CA, Fox Theater
Oct 26 - Pomona CA, Fox Theater