Bonny Doon have announced their new album, Let There Be Music, will come out on June 16th via ANTI- Records, the news arrives with video for lead single “Naturally.” The band is also announcing 2023 tour dates including a stop at Austin, TX’s SXSW and a spring run in California.

“Naturally is a song where the musical development really mirrored the lyrical content, specifically the idea of leaning into a situation and letting it develop organically, in this case that of a relationship,” Bill Lennox explains. “The song began as a slow ballad and worked better as a more uptempo thing, and a certain sentiment only made sense when translated to French. It speaks to those kind of unexpected surprises we encounter when we surrender to the flow of things.”

After extensively touring in 2018, supporting Band of Horses, Snail Mail and Waxahatchee, Lennox and Bobby Colombo were invited by Katie Crutchfield to collaborate on Waxahatchee’s album Saint Cloud. “The experience raised the ceiling on our imagination,” Colombo said. Soon after, Colombo and Jake Kmiecik, both entered a time of serious healing, Jake tending to complications of his Crohn’s disease and Bobby to a brain injury and undiagnosed Lyme disease. While these detours of doctors’ appointments and experimental care were taking place, the members of Bonny Doon were also Waxahatchee’s backing band on the Saint Cloud tour. These obstacles and commitments drew out the making of Let There Be Music for several additional years, and in the process, redefined the record as an achievement in perseverance for the band.

Bonny Doon 2023 Tour Dates:

3/11 – Detroit, MI – Outer Limits Lounge
3/14-17 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
5/9 – Vista, CA – Booze Bros Brewing Co.
5/10 – Los Angeles, CA – Gold Diggers
5/11 – Los Angeles, CA – Gold Diggers
5/12 – Ojai, CA – Ojai Women’s Club

Pre-order Let There Be Music by Bonny Doon HERE