Yellowcard - Announce new album and tour!

March 2015

Tour, UK

Yellowcard will hit the UK in March for a co-headline tour with Less than Jake!

Yellowcard are pleased to announce they will be returning to the UK in March 2015 for a full co-headline tour with Less than Jake. The band’s latest album ‘Lift a Sail’ was released this week due to critical acclaim with their latest single ‘Transmission Home’ being play listed across specialist radio.

“We really feel like we got where we wanted to be, and made a proper Rock ‘n’ Roll record, We really changed lanes, I think. It’s still a massive rock record, but there were a lot of choices made while we were writing the songs that were new for us. We continued to challenge ourselves throughout the writing and recording process.” - Ryan Key (Yellowcard)

Kicking off with the majestic violin only instrumental 'Convocation', a choice that heralds not only the first time they’ve done something as experimental as this, but also a brand new start for the band. Abandoning any binds that held them to scenes or musical styles, Yellowcard let loose and rattled their own cages. The massively anthemic 'Transmission Home' shows a band unleashed and eager to start anew. With Ryan Mendez’s muscular power chords and the sonic boom of guest drummer Nate Young (Anberlin), 'Lift a Sail' shifts quickly into high gear, upping the Rock quotient with Sean Mackin’s trademark violin adding extra texture.

From the ringing 'Crash the Gates' to the driving 'Make me So' which recalls the band’s superb talent for huge singalong choruses, to the balladic 'Madrid', it’s an album with more peaks than valleys but also not afraid to show its vulnerability. Named after Moscow’s time zone, 'MSK' is a testament to Key’s growth as a songwriter. Sparse and soaring with atmospheric keys, electronics and Mackin’s swirling violin. It’s a first in that it is completely devoid of drums and guitar, something they have never done before.

Written about the apartment Key and his now wife shared in Denver after her tragic accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down, album track 'One Bedroom' stands closest to what many feel is classic Yellowcard. Over acoustic guitars that gradually give way to an anthemic power ballad, Key sings a tender love song, intoning “You’re the one for the rest of the rest of time,” in earnestness. Lyrically circling around Key’s family and, most prominently, his wife, it’s a very personal album and one that really pushes the band outside of their comfort zone.