DAYGLOW Announces 2021 North American Tour Dates, New Album 'Harmony House' out 5/21

Announces 2021 North American Fall Tour Dates New Album Harmony House out 5/21

Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana  Dayglow is today announcing his return to US stages this September. The six week tour will kick off in his home state of Texas and take him across the country. All dates are below and tickets are on sale 4/16.   The tour will be the first time Dayglow, also known as 21-year-old Sloan Struble, will get to play songs from his forthcoming album Harmony House which it out on May 21st on Struble’s own Very Nice Records in partnership with AWAL.    Fans will also get a preview of what to expect when Dayglow takes the stage as part of the upcoming season for the iconic Austin City Limits TV program. He will join Brittany Howard, Leon Bridges, Jon Batiste and more. It will be his second TV performance of the year after he made his Late Night Debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to play his smash hit “Can I Call You Tonight."

The North American tour announcement follows the release of latest single “Woah Man,” as well as “Close To You,” which has been streamed almost 20 millions times since it’s release earlier this year. The song is reminiscent of the iconic whimsy of 80’s pop duets, drawing heavily on some unlikely influences such as Whitney Houston, Patti Labelle, and Michael McDonald, and “Something,” a David Byrne-inspired track about the sometimes overwhelming experience of contemporary life as it’s lived both digitally and IRL.   Harmony House will be released May 21st and can be pre-ordered here.

North American Tour Dates: 09/09/21 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 09/10/21 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s 09/11/21 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live 09/13/21 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 09/16/21 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre 09/17/21 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues 09/18/21 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory 09/22/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom 09/23/21 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 09/24/21 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 09/26/21 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox 09/28/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot 09/29/21 - Denver, CO @ Summit 10/05/21 - Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe 10/06/21 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl 10/12/21 - Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage 10/13/21 - Charlotte, NC @ The Underground 10/15/21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts 10/16/21 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club 10/17/21 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall 10/19/21 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club 10/21/21 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall 10/23/21 - Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre 10/24/21 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Elevation 10/27/21 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 10/29/21 - St Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall 10/30/21 - Kansas City, MO @ The Truman

Tracklisting: Something Medicine  Balcony December Close To You Crying On The Dancefloor Into Blue Moving Out Woah Man Strangers Like Ivy

"Close To You" Video Picture it: A soft-focus shot of a bungalow on a leafy residential street. The single-storey house is painted robin’s egg blue and there’s a young man in a plaid suit standing outside the front door in his bare feet. He waves at the camera as the title appears across the lower third of the screen: Harmony House. It stars the lovable one-man-band Sloan Struble, and though you’ve never watched this TV show before, it feels comforting. With that wave, Struble invites you into his world—and his new album. Struble, who records music as Dayglow, explains that his sophomore album began life as an imaginary sitcom. He’d begun writing new music after the release of his runaway 2018 debut Fuzzybrain, and found himself drawn to piano-driven soft rock from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. He was also watching a lot of Cheers, the long-running sitcom that took the viewer to a place where, as the theme song goes, “everybody knows your name.” “At the very beginning, I was writing a soundtrack to a sitcom that doesn't exist,” he says. The music would generate a kind of impossible nostalgia for something that had never been real.  Much of Harmony House is about growing up and coping with change; after Fuzzybrain, he left university and decided to fully commit to being a musician. During this time he found a collection of poetry in his family’s house that had been a favorite of his great-grandmother’s. A line of verse there became a lyric on “December,” his favorite song on the album: “So my friend, just remember every year has a December.”  “Harmony House is about dealing with change and realizing that change is ok, that everything changes and it doesn’t have to be overwhelming,” Struble says. In a perfect coincidence, an inscription in the front of the book indicates that it was a gift to his great-grandmother from a friend. Now the song is a gift to listeners around the world who might need a reminder that change is a necessary part of life’s journey. Like the gifted book of poetry, “December”—and Harmony House as a whole—is an act of kindness.

"Something" Video Struble was born and raised in Texas, and wrote the first song he recorded for Harmony House, “Medicine,” while still in his dorm room. After Fuzzybrain, which he wrote mostly on guitar, he decided to write for piano. At 21, he’s now out of school, but as he did on his debut, he writes, produces, records, and mixes all of his music himself—in his bedroom, no less. “I tried to compose these songs in a way that you could just sit down at a piano and play them,” he explains. “That’s the sign of a good song, when it can live on its own musically.”  That sort of sturdiness he strives for in his writing makes for timeless music, a quality Harmony House exudes. Even when he’s writing about the sometimes overwhelming experience of contemporary life as it’s lived both digitally and IRL, as he does on the opener “Something,” the melodies are welcoming. In fact, there’s a recurring melody introduced on that first track that appears on every subsequent song. You might not catch it on the first listen, but it’s there anyway, like a gentle hand on your shoulder. Beyond reassurance, the album also encourages you to get up and dance with its single “Close to You,” Dayglow’s first single in over a year and the gateway to Harmony House. Indebted to ‘80s anthems about shy feelings of love, like Whitney Houston’s immortal “How Will I Know,” “Close to You” is like a duet between Struble and his feelings of self-doubt. But the synth’s propel him forward (and you to the dancefloor).  Harmony House is a finely calibrated, carefully fussed over expression of encouragement for anyone who needs it. The album ends with “Like Ivy,” a mellow return to the melodic theme introduced on the opening track that describes “growing up like ivy” and the mysterious passage of time. Struble’s boyish and gentle tenor explores its upper limits as he sings the big idea of Harmony House: “I’m learning to grow.” It’s a lesson that never ends. Praise for Dayglow: "...though Dayglow's recent success has led Struble to put his college education on hold for now, we have a feeling that pretty soon he's going to graduate into full rock star status while continuing to shed his brand of positivity one riff, hook and smile at a time." - NPR “At 19, Sloan Struble aka Dayglow has proven himself to be somewhat of an indie-pop wunderkind. Having been working the DIY way for over a decade, he makes summer-ready and surreal slacker tunes (and mad music videos) about love, loss and silliness of teenage life. This is bedroom pop meant for the world stage.” - NME "Hailing from Fort Worth, Texas, singer-songwriter Sloan Struble, aka Dayglow, encapsulates all the best of indie pop and indie rock in the 21st century - the charming lyricism of Grizzly Bear, the catchy synth elements of MGMT and Phoenix, and the playful melodies of Vampire Weekend and Cayucas." - Earmilk "If you were to put a soundtrack to the strung-together words of sun-soaked eternal joy, it would be Dayglow...Dayglow is the antidote for dark pop, brimming with infectious bliss and hope." - Ones To Watch www.dayglowband.com Twitter | Facebook | Instagram