We Are The City Release New Single “RIP”
January 10, 2020 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Today, Canadian rockers, We Are The City, have released a new single, “RIP.” Give it a spin here. “RIP” is the third single off and title track of the trio’s forthcoming, fifth, studio album, RIP, which is slated to be released on January 24, 2020, via Tooth & Nail Records.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2uB972HUPaFoa1nWLGCYwO
Lead vocalist, Cayne McKenzie, shares, “The song was written, mostly, before Kyle Tubbs died. A sad song about feeling like he was fading a childhood best friend, I was mourning our friendship. 4 months later he died from a fentanyl overdose, January 26th 2018. I re-recorded the vocal and improvised new lyrics a few days after I found out.”
In support of the forthcoming album, We Are The City have opened a creative arts + events space in Downtown Vancouver (568 E Broadway) for the month of January. Decked out with copper walls, the pop-up is serving as a community-focused, free and open-to-the-public space. We Are The City will be rehearsing for their upcoming European tour, showing their films Violent + Ash, and giving patrons early RIP listening sessions. The band just announced a few We Are The City-focused events, including two sold out shows on January 30 + 31. For more information, please visit http://www.wearethecity.ca/rip.
“This is a store where nothing is for sale. This is a free and open space for any artist, passerby or person needing a place to belong. Free internet. Free coffee. Cheap drinks. A month-long concert series curated by We Are The City with all proceeds going right back to the artists playing. This has been a dream of ours, to pour whatever resources we have into a tangible space for our fans to experience over multiple weeks. This is for our immediate community, to encourage our city blocks, our neighborhoods, our internet communities. A thank you. An offering,” the band shares.
Singer-keyboardist Cayne McKenzie, drummer Andrew Huculiak and guitarist David Menzel started We Are The City way back when they were teenagers, and in the decade-plus since then, they’ve used the project as an outlet for their wildest creative whims. They’ve unveiled masked alter-egos (2011’s High School EP), created an album with an accompanying Norwegian-language feature film (2013’s Violent), and staged a live stream of their recording sessions (2015’s Above Club). Now, with the joys and occasional tragedies of adulthood having fully set in, they’ve taken on their latest challenge: absolute, unflinching sincerity.
RIP is their fifth full-length, acting as the prog-pop counterpoint to last year’s experimental AT NIGHT. The Vancouver-based trio created this latest LP by returning to the basement of Cayne’s family home in Kelowna, where they first formed the band. “We went back to where it started, and that was pretty potent,” reflects Andy. “There a few times on the record where Cayne’s almost crying when he sings, and I just don’t know if you could get that in a studio in the same way. It was really capturing an honest and true feeling of where we’re at right now.”
RIP is out January 24, 2020 via Tooth & Nail Records. For more information, please visit: http://www.wearethecity.ca/.
RIP Track Listing
Killer B-Side Music
Song in My Head
Night Guest
Obviously
You’re so Clean
You Can’t Blame Me, But You Can Blame Yourself
God & Man
Saint Peter
Me + Me
Children’s Hospital Ambience
I’m Not Yours Anymore
RIP
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Feb 19 2020 - Dresden, Germany @ Ostpol
Feb 20 2020 - Vienna, Austria @ B72
Feb 21 2020 - Steyr, Austria @ Roeda
Feb 22 2020 - Weyer, Austria @ Bertholdssaal
Feb 24 2020 - Munich, Germany @ Milla
Feb 26 2020 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Palace Akropolis
Feb 28 2020 - Baden, Switzerland @ Werkk
Feb 29 2020 - Mainz, Germany @ Schon Schoen
Mar 01 2020 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Club 9
Mar 02 2020 - London, England @ The Grace
Mar 04 2020 - Antwerpen, Belgium @ Trix
Mar 05 2020 - Dortmund, Germany @ Tyde Studios
Mar 06 2020 - Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow
Mar 07 2020 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega (Ideal Bar)
Mar 08 2020 – Berlin, Germany @ Musik & Frieden