Show Me the Body are turning belief into action, on record and in the street. The New York collective have announced a 23-city North American tour behind their fourth studio album ‘Alone Together’, out July 10 via Loma Vista Recordings, and dropped the record’s third single “Eat For Peace.”
The fall run opens in Boston this September and carries the band’s notorious live show across the continent. The hometown stop at Webster Hall will be their first show without a stage barrier in over a decade, a fitting move for a band that builds its whole world around community. General on-sale starts Friday, June 12 at 10 am local time. A London show at The Cause, presented by Outbreak, lands June 30, with presale underway now.
The community work isn’t a metaphor. The band are reviving their weekly CORPUS Self Defense Training at McCarren Park in Brooklyn, running 2 to 4 pm every Sunday through June, July, and August. The sessions are open to all, built on horizontal skill sharing and mutual protection, and footage from them will appear in the “Eat For Peace” lyric video.
Frontman Julian Cashwan Pratt frames the single as the album’s opening statement and its core credo: radical love that compels him to fight. “Eat For Peace” is the first track on ‘Alone Together’ and the first message the band send.
‘Alone Together’ follows their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Trouble The Water’, trading atmosphere for direct communication, a call to galvanize yourself and the people around you. Working with producers Klas Ahlund (Robyn, Ghost) and Kenneth Blume III (Geese, Fcukers), the band have sharpened their language into something more focused and urgent. The songs hit with a rare mix of menace and joy, the sound of a band fully locked in.
The record’s roots run personal. The bones of the album took shape in their Corpus studio, in the basement of the building that doubles as the collective’s headquarters and the home where Pratt lives with his young family. He wrote much of it in the wake of his daughter’s birth, and that tension between darkness and new life gives ‘Alone Together’ its harrowing, exhilarating charge.
Upcoming Live Dates:
June 19 – Warsaw, PL @ Summer Punch Festival
June 20 – Bratislava, SK @ Pink Whale
June 21 – Piacenza, IT @ Low L Fest
June 23 – Stuttgart, DE @ Im Wizemann Club
June 24 – Lyon, FR @ Le Transbordeur
June 25 – Zurich, CH @ Exil
June 26 – Hautesville, CH @ Abyss Fest
June 27 – Berlin, DE @ Kesselhaus
June 30 – London, UK @ The Cause w/ Outbreak
August 13 – Paredes de Coura, PT @ Vodafone Paredes de Coura
August 15 – Prague, CZ @ Bike Jesus
August 16 – Vienna, AT @ Metastadt Open Air w/ Deftones
August 17 – Budapest, HU @ Turbina
August 19 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Kesselhaus w/ Deafheaven
August 20 – Munster, DE @ Sputnikhalle w/ Deafheaven
August 21 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje w/ Deafheaven
August 22 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
August 23 – London, UK @ All Points East
August 24 – Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio w/ Deafheaven
August 25 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan w/ Deafheaven
August 26 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller Music Hall w/ Deafheaven
North American Live Dates (w/ support from Whispers, JIVEBOMB, holder; * = Lip Critic):
September 15 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
September 16 – Toronto, ON @ East End United Basement
September 17 – Detroit, MI @ Tangent Gallery
September 18 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
September 20 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
September 22 – Kansas City, MO @ Idle Free
September 23 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
September 25 – Las Vegas, NV @ Grey Witch
September 27 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
September 28 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
September 30 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
October 1 – Fresno, CA @ Strummers
October 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda
October 4 – Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
October 7 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
October 9 – Birmingham, AL @ Workplay
October 10 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
October 11 – Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
October 12 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
October 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
October 15 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall *