With their new album, As You Please out on October 6th via Run For Cover Records, Citizen has announced a headlining tour of the US in support of the album. Joining them will be Connecticut indie rockers Sorority Noise and Seattle quintette Great Grandpa.
Citizen’s As You Please reports from ground zero of an epidemic. Two years removed from their previous Run For Cover LP, Everybody Is Going To Heaven, Citizen’s perspective is far less sublime. As You Please is a confrontational record, incapable of turning a blind eye toward the inescapable strife. And so, songwriter Mat Kerekes pursues the source of discontent that is ravaging his Rust Belt city of Toledo, Ohio with the band’s most dynamic record to date.
On As You Please the epidemic is bigger than addiction and overdoses. There is no longer a Dream to be pursued for the friends and family surrounding Citizen. The band explores that absence and the misguided ways in which it gets filled. On lead single “Jet” the kids move slow and there’s a stranger living in the narrator’s home with a sound that, according to Stereogum, “reminds me a bit of the moment that Jawbreaker signed to a major label to release their final album Dear You.”
Citizen on tour!
Oct 17 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Oct 18 Chicago, IL @ Metro
Oct 19 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
Oct 20 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Oct 21 Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room
Oct 22 Boston, MA @ Royale
Oct 24 Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
Oct 26 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
Oct 27 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
Oct 28 Asbury Park, NJ @ House Of Independents
Oct 29 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage
Oct 31 Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
Nov 01 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Nov 02 Orlando, FL @ The Social
Nov 03 Margate, FL @ O’Malley’s
Nov 04 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
Nov 05 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Nov 06 Nashville, TN @ The Basement – East
Nov 08 Houston, TX @ Walter’s
Nov 09 Dallas, TX @ Trees
Nov 10 McDade, TX @ Sound On Sound Fest
Nov 12 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
Nov 13 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
Nov 14 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
Nov 15 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent
Nov 17 San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
Nov 18 Portland, OR @ Analog Theater
Nov 19 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Nov 21 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Nov 22 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
Nov 24 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
Nov 25 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
*All dates with Sorority Noise and Great Grandpa
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