Indie-pop act Arlie has released their highly anticipated debut full-length album, BREAK THE CURSE today via Atlantic Records. The Nashville-based band’s freshman release is an unabashedly joyful, artfully minded indie-pop album conceived by Banks and co-produced by band members Ryan Savage and Adam Lochemes. Centered around the theme of transcending societal, cultural, and generational traumas, BREAK THE CURSE finds the band blossoming into their authentic selves. Listen to it now below.
Lead singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Nathaniel Banks shares of the project, “This album is called BREAK THE CURSE, which I found to be the common thread between all the songs on this record, and what they mean to me. That is, through this realization of how cycles of hurt are repeated through generations and realizing the parallel between my relationship with my dad and my relationship with other people in my life, like friends and romantic interests. Hitting on the same issues that prevent true connection with those people as my dad did with me and likely his father did with him.
This album brought in more collaborators in more significant ways than I have in the past. That also helped with me learning how to overcome obstacles in relationships, in the collaborative process itself. A representation of a chapter in life and feels really good to be putting out into the world.”
To celebrate the album, the band will embark on a US headline tour, set to kick off at Durham’s Motorco Music Hall on June 17th and include a show at New York’s Mercury Lounge on June 24, before culminating with a very special hometown show just added at Nashville’s Eastside Bowl on August 5th. Tickets can be found HERE – all dates are below.
UPCOMING LIVE DATES:
JUNE 17, 2022 – DURHAM, NC – MOTORCO MUSIC HALL
JUNE 19, 2022 – RICHMOND, VA – RICHMOND MUSIC HALL
JUNE 21, 2022 – WASHINGTON, DC – DC9
JUNE 22, 2022 – CAMBRIDGE, MA – SONIA
JUNE 24, 2022 – NEW YORK, NY – MERCURY LOUNGE
JUNE 25, 2022 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – MILKBOY
JUNE 26, 2022 – PITTSBURGH, PA – THUNDERBIRD MUSIC HALL
JUNE 28, 2022 – COLUMBUS, OH – RUMBA CAFÉ
JUNE 30, 2022 – FERNDALE, MI – THE LOVING TOUCH
JULY 3, 2022 – DES MOINES, IA – XBK
JULY 5, 2022 – OMAHA, NE – SLOWDOWN
JULY 6, 2022 – KANSAS CITY, MO – ENCORE AT THE UPTOWN THEATER
JULY 7, 2022 – DENVER, CO – GLOBE HALL
JULY 9, 2022 – SALT LAKE CITY, UT – SOUNDWELL
JULY 10, 2022 – BOISE, ID – THE SHREDDER
JULY 12, 2022 – SEATTLE, WA – MADAME LOU’S
JULY 13, 2022 – PORTLAND, OR – MISSION THEATER
JULY 14, 2022 – SACRAMENTO, CA – GOLDFIELD TRADING POST
JULY 16, 2022 – SANTA ANA, CA – THE CONSTELLATION ROOM
JULY 17, 2022 – SAN DIEGO, CA – VOODOO ROOM AT HOUSE OF BLUES
JULY 19, 2022 – TUCSON, AZ – CLUB CONGRESS
JULY 20, 2022 – SANTA FE, NM – MEOW WOLF
JULY 22, 2022 – AUSTIN, TX – MOHAWK
JULY 23, 2022 – HOUSTON, TX – WAREHOUSE LIVE
JULY 26, 2022 – NEW ORLEANS, LA – GASA GASA
JULY 27, 2022 – ATLANTA, GA – ROOFTOP AT THE EASTERN
JULY 28, 2022 – MEMPHIS, TN – GROWLERS
AUGUST 5, 2022 – NASHVILLE, TN – EASTSIDE BOWL