we have new songs to play, and a new tour to play them on!
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JUNIORS IS HERE!!! Go listen to it now!
lnk.to/juniors
get the vinyl and please read ALL the thank yous, but for now we'll extend endless love and gratitude to YOU our families, YOU our friends, and YOU our champions, supporters, and fans... and especially to ye who falleth into multiple camps. also huge loving thanks to our deft closing pitchers and co-producers on this one, Oliver Hill and Mike Mogis.
album photography by Mitchell Wojcik
album art by Will Whittington
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it's here, the Juniors Album Release Tour! yep, we're headed back into the indoor, real life venues for the first time since March 2020.
we'll be returning to these venues as fundamentally changed people. so much has happened to challenge us, test us, make us grow, and fine tune our perspective. it's also the next giant leap for Tall-Heights-kind... to think back on Tall Heights Thursdays, and then the first backyard shows, and then a whole national Backyard Tour.
Y'all have been with us every step of this crazy journey so let's treat this like a giant Junior Homecoming for all.
we'll be joined by some fantastic openers Andrea von Kampen (1/12-1/30) and The Collection (2/22-3/10). tickets go on sale friday at 12PM local.
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an artist only gets to say this a handful times in a career, so we're really savoring this moment...
PROUDLY announcing our new album, Juniors, out everywhere on January 14, 2022. more than any of our others, Juniors is an open diary of a record that percolated through a time of extreme personal change, turmoil, joy, fear, and love. it's an album that taught us a lot about ourselves as artists and men. we've already shared 3 of the songs from the album. more to come before release day!
you can pre-order a signed CD/LP from our web store today (we decided to self-release Juniors so every order supports us 100%) or pre-save it to your spotify / applemusic collection: lnk.to/juniors
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Good call, @Spotify - wanderlust is the PERFECT word for our new single "Hear It Again." Sweet playlist here : open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWpO97CaFM3p?p…
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Today we launch a new song of yearning, "Hear It Again," out now everywhere: https://youtu.be/JaMb_i4i1kk
"Hear It Again" is about the blurry lines between home and touring. we started it on tour with Ben Folds and finished and recorded it deep within pandemic isolation. accordingly, it is impregnated with this tension between 2 lost sanctuaries : home at home and home on the road. as the lines smear between the two, ultimately a feeling prevails that there is only one course back to peace for us : back on tour! oh and how our wish came true, huh?
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We've added one final leg of the backyard tour. This time we're heading to the Southwest, West Coast, and whatever part of the country Denver is in. Tickets just went on sale and you can get links at: bit.ly/THBackyardTix
Thank you to the hosts, everyone who offered to host, and everyone who asked us to head west. We'll see you in September.
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Toni's photo is one of the many featured in our acoustic attic performance of "The Mountain" which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hmbd...
Her granddaughter Tamara sent us her photo and this story about her:
"Her name was Toni Lilien (I called her Baba). She was born in Poland and managed to survive WW2 despite starvation and more details that I’ll spare you. During the war, she was separated from my Grandfather for 8 years, neither knowing if the other was alive. One of my grandfather’s siblings found my grandmother’s name in a list of survivors at a DP (displaced persons) camp and they eventually reunited and immigrated to Buffalo, New York.
I only got to bask in the unconditional love of my grandmother for 8 short years of my life until lung cancer stole her away. She died 29 years ago and I’m still crying as I’m writing this.
She loved my sister and I more than words and spoiled us rotten (notice the lollipop I’m eating in the pic). When we visited Buffalo from Toronto, my sister and I would sleep over and she would give us these little tin bowls with M&Ms to eat while we watched cartoons before breakfast.
I’ve never really gotten over the injustice of her death. My family has told me my whole life that I’m just like her yet I barely got to know her at all."
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We're overjoyed to present our video for "The Mountain" which we filmed in Paul's attic, surrounded by the photos and memories of your friends and loved ones.
The song was inspired by a photograph of a friend's grandfather on his last day, sitting in a chair and looking at the Green Mountains of Vermont. We never knew the man, but the photo said so much. When we decided to film a video for the song, we invited fans to send us their special photos and stories of friends and loved ones who had passed away so we could include them in the video. Each photo has its own aching beauty. They remind us of the connections we all share, and the way we can preserve the presence of another within the eternal natural world.
Thank you to everyone who shared a photo and a memory.
You can learn more about the people in the video at: www.tallheights.com/themountain/
watch video on watch page
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tim here. i had the pleasure of sitting down with American Songwriter to talk about The Mountain, and this crazy flurry of writing, recording, and living that we just experienced in 2020 (link to whole article below). here's a quote from it that i think captures the essence of this new song for me:
"Even though it’s a song about death, it’s a song about love. I think that’s a really important piece of it—in the final verse, it’s talking about how we don’t need to have eternal life, we just need a moment here, in the beauty of the world with a loved one."
americansongwriter.com/tall-heights-delivers-a-poi…
Thanks, American Songwriter, for such a lovely and thoughtful chat.
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