KINGSWOOD Announce Album ‘After Hours, Close To Dawn’

Powerhouse rockers KINGSWOOD today confirm the details for their second studio album After Hours, Close To Dawn, set for release in Australia on March 3, 2017 via Dew Process. The band also announce they will be heading out across the country for their national album tour throughout March and April next year. The fourteen-date After Hours, Close To Dawn tour, proudly supported by triple j, kicks off in Belgrave on Thursday March 23 before hitting up capital cites as well as a handful of shows off the beaten track. Special guests to be announced and tickets are on sale 9:00am Friday, December 9.

KINGSWOOD members Alex Laska, Fergus Linacre and Justin Debrincat spent the earlier part of 2016 bunkered down recording the follow up to their ARIA #6 and ARIA nominated 2014 debut Microscopic Wars at the legendary Sound Emporium in Nashville, USA. Owned by musical legend Johnny Cash’s producer Jack Clement – the studio has recorded hit albums from some of the greats, including Robert Plant, Cyndi Lauper, Alabama Shakes and Pharell. The new album was co-produced by Laska and English-born and Nashville-based producer Ed Spear, who the band befriended when he engineered Microscopic Wars.

The first offering from these recordings is their commanding new single Creepin’. The track premiered via the airwaves on triple j Drive with Veronica and Lewis was added straight to the triple j playlist and has gained close to 200,000 streams online.

Good bands follow the path in front of them, but the great ones forge their own trail. With their new album, After Hours, Close To Dawn, KINGSWOOD prove they’re part of the latter’s rich, rare lineage: risk-takers who refuse to acknowledge the easy boundaries that demarcate popular music. The group have made a record that’s bursting with diverse ideas, extraordinary sounds, and heartfelt emotion. “There’s no direction we can’t take now,” explains Linacre. “KINGSWOOD can go anywhere we want.”

“Any perspective on what we should sound like has been thrown out the window,” adds Laska.

After Hours, Close To Dawn puts KINGSWOOD on the front line of innovators. It mixes compelling R’n’B grooves with soaring rock & roll, garage soul and space-age experimentation. It’s an eclectic collection of music, but the defining element is the through line of the trio’s creative DNA. No matter what shape they take, these songs still instantly recognizable as KINGSWOOD.

KINGSWOOD
After Hours, Close To Dawn National Album Tour
Supported by triple j

With Special Guests TBA
Tickets On Sale 9:00am Friday December 9, go to kingswoodband.com THU 23 MAR                             SOOKI LOUNGE                     BELGRAVE   VIC
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2ghZMDC

FRI 24 MAR                               170 RUSSELL                         MELBOURNE   VIC
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2h4fVht

SAT 25 MAR                              THE GOV                                  ADELAIDE   SA
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2g7kh7K

WED 29 MAR                            THE CAMBRIDGE                    NEWCASTLE  NSW
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2h3nvX7

THU 30 MAR                    WOLLONGONG UNI               WOLLONGONG             NSW
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2gi17e0

FRI 31 MAR                               THE METRO                          SYDNEY   NSW
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2hf6Te1

SAT 1 APR                                 ANU BAR                              CANBERRA  ACT
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2h0um2Y

THU 6 APR                              MIAMI MARKETTA                  GOLD COAST   QLD
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2hfatVt

FRI 7 APR                                THE TRIFFID                            BRISBANE   QLD
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2h0vow6

SUN 16 APR                            THE TORQUAY HOTEL        TORQUAY   VIC
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2h0pvPh

FRI 21 APR                              DISCOVERY                             DARWIN   NT
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2hf6Ui6

THU 27 APR                            SETTLERS TAVERN                MARGARET RIVER WA
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2heLy8i

FRI 28 APR                              PRINCE OF WALES                 BUNBURY   WA
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2gPQ2S5

SAT 29 APR                            THE CAPITOL                           PERTH   WA
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2g8a5Ha

Creepin Available Now HERE

After Hours, Close To Dawn To Be Released March 3 via Dew Process

Album Pre-order HERE