Having been ensconced in the studio working on her forthcoming album ‘Paper Castles’,

Alice Phoebe Lou is pleased to announced details of a brand new track GALAXIES 

out now.

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South African singer-songwriter, Lou has just announced a series of live shows in Europe, as well

as North America, having sold out two Cape Town shows in February, which pre-empts her forthcoming album due 22nd March.

Overseen by Grammy winning producer Noah Georgeson (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom), Galaxies follows previous track Skin Crawl, and is once again accompanied by visuals that portray Lou’s charm and elegant fragility.

The track as Lou herself explains; 

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“Happened on a rainy moody day in Berlin, my friend Harry Charles &

I wrote this song while lying on the carpet of my room.

Space had become such a theme in my life & music, not in a scientific way but more in a metaphorical sense; drawing parallels between a planet in the expansive universe & the way that one's tiny & seemingly insignificant existence interacts with the world.

This song is about being nothing & everything. Abut being overwhelmed by the weight of existence while simultaneously being in awe & wonder of it all. Galaxies came to life the first time we played in the Planetarium in Berlin; we've played 13 shows there now & every time I see the visuals come to

life & the audience being swept away by the combination of the song

with the projections of flying through the galaxies, the song makes

so much sense”.

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The accompanying music video features Alice in a surreal dreamlike landscape coupled with animated design by Hagen Schönfeld. The video is directed by Chloë Lewer and Andrea Ariel, they say; 

“‘Galaxies’ is the tale of a fallen star, who has ended up living a regular life on earth. There’s no denying that out-of-this-world themes and galactic dreams are intrinsic within Alice and her music. We think of our dear friend as a star, in all forms of the word. So in this video we wanted to portray the high and lows of such journey. The music video was shot with a loving micro crew over two days in between a ‘space’ in Berlin and an ex-military Soviet training ground just out of the city”.

 

The forthcoming ‘Paper Castles’ tour in the Northern hemisphere include a series of dates starting this March in North America and Europe, including an album party show at EartH in Hackney London on 17th April.

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LIVE DATES

 

The Paper Castles 2019 Tour

 North America

March 3 - Toronto, CAN - The Garrison

March 4 - Montreal, CAN - Bar Le Ritz PDB

March 5 - Boston, MA - Cafe 939

March 7 - Vienna, VA - Jammin’ Java

March 8 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade

March 10 - Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall

March 11 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl AT Center Stage

March 13 - 17 - Austin, TX - SXSW

March 20 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah

March 21 - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan Lounge

March 23 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill

March 24 - Portland, OR - The Old Church Concert Hall

March 25 - Seattle, WA - Barboz 

Europe

April 10 - Leipzig, DE - UT Connewitz

April 11 - Dresden, DE - Polimagie Festival

April 13 - Hannover, DE - Faust

April 15 - Bristol, UK - Thekla

April 16 - Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute

April 17 - London, UK - Earth

April 18 - Nottingham, UK - Bodega

April 20 - Utrecht, ND - Tivoli

April 21 - Amsterdam, ND - Zonnehuis

April 23 - Aachen, DE - Kulturbunker

April 24 - Brussels, BE - Botanique

April 26 - Vienna, AT - Flex

April 28 - Prague, CZ - Futrum

April 29 - Erlangen, DE - E-Werk

May 1 - Friberg, DE - Jazzhaus

May 2 - Munich, DE - Ampere

May 3 - Zurich, CH - Bogen F

May 4 - Stuttgart, DE - Im Wizemann

May 6 - Cologne, DE - Kulturkirche

May 7 - Mainz, DE - Kuz

May 8 -Kiel, DE - Pumpe

May 9 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega

May 11 - Berlin, DE - Columbiahalle

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Tickets and more information here​

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