The Dear Hunter are heading back out on the road, and they’re bringing one of their most ambitious albums with them. “The Road To Sunya” tour continues through July and August, covering major markets across the U.S. with support from Closure in Moscow and K Sera on select dates.
The remaining run picks up July 28 in St. Louis and pushes through the South, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Midwest before wrapping August 14 in Chicago, hitting cities including Nashville, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and Baltimore along the way.
The band made their feelings clear about getting back out there. “It’s been far too long since we’ve had the opportunity to perform with you, and we need anyone and everyone who loves this band to come join us and make these nights unforgettable.”
The tour supports ‘Sunya’, The Dear Hunter’s latest studio album and their most sonically expansive to date. Built on synth textures, tightly wound grooves, and deep pulls from jazz and funk, ‘Sunya’ marks a deliberate shift in perspective from its predecessor ‘Antimai’.
Where ‘Antimai’ spoke from a collective urban voice, ‘Sunya’ narrows to a single point of view, following one perspective stepping beyond a walled world into a physical wasteland, confronting silence and the absence of meaning in equal measure. The progressive rock architecture is still present, but rhythm now carries as much of the story as spectacle.
The band describes it as their most ambitious record yet. “‘Sunya’ is our most ambitious effort to date. There are a lot of funky, jazz-fusion type influences that show up in these songs. But, the record still feels like The Dear Hunter. Lyrically, we explore a lot of dystopian themes, while adding a bunch of synthy layers.”
That combination of dystopian lyricism and genre-blending instrumentation makes ‘Sunya’ one of the more genuinely interesting progressive rock records in recent memory. It’s a sharp, layered listen that rewards attention.
Casey Crescenzo launched The Dear Hunter as a side project in the mid-2000s before it became his primary creative vehicle in 2006. The band’s catalog runs deep, anchored by a series of interconnected concept albums beginning with ‘Act I: The Lake South, the River North’, with standalone records and EPs filling out a discography that keeps growing in unexpected directions.
‘Sunya’ continues that momentum, and the remaining tour dates give fans across the country a chance to hear where The Dear Hunter have taken things next.
“The Road To Sunya” Tour Dates:
July 28 – St. Louis, MO
July 29 – Nashville, TN
July 31 – Atlanta, GA
August 1 – Carrboro, NC
August 3 – Baltimore, MD
August 4 – Philadelphia, PA
August 6 – Boston, MA
August 7 – New York, NY
August 8 – Asbury Park, NJ
August 10 – Allentown, PA
August 11 – Lakewood, OH
August 13 – Grand Rapids, MI
August 14 – Chicago, IL