L.S. Dunes will drop their new album Violet, on January 31 via Fantasy Records. Ahead of the album’s arrival, fans can listen to the track “Machines,” and watch the music video. Fans can catch L.S. Dunes this weekend at When We Were Young Festival. Following the festival, the band will be on the road with Rise Against for their full North American tour. Violet, once again produced Will Yip, known for his work with Turnstile, Title Fight, Soul Glo, Nothing, Scowl and many more.

On the new album Travis Stever shares: “Violet is a sonic journey into the depths of every band member of L.S. Dunes. The collaborative efforts to bring each song to a full potential came naturally. It’s the album that has always lived in us individually but could only be made together. It has melodies that have lived within me since I was a child. It was only with this band I would be able to find a place where they could find a home in song.”

The earliest version of L.S. Dunes, the one that introduced themselves to the world at Chicago’s Riot Fest in 2022 and went on to release their blissfully chaotic debut, Past Lives, later that year, was birthed in turbulence. There was a pandemic. There were time and family constraints. There were members away on tour with one of their many other bands: Anthony Green’s Saosin and Circa Survive, Frank Iero’s My Chemical Romance, Tim Payne and Tucker Rule’s Thursday, and Travis Stever’s Coheed and Cambria, among them. Somehow, they managed to make it work, releasing a few more singles along the way, and touring the globe for a growing and passionate cult-like fanbase.

“I became so sick of playing the song where I sing, ‘Sorry that I wish that I was dead,’ and I am so sorry I even wrote that song,” he says of Sleep Cult, the closing track on their debut. “I’m grateful that people resonate with it, but it just wasn’t helpful for me to sing that every night or to talk about that. So this time, I personally decided that I really wanted to make a record that says there is magic in the world. I wanted to celebrate music and the transformative power that it has to connect and inspire people. I wanted to make something that was in complete opposition to that song—something that says, I want to live.” (Green)

L.S. Dunes
Violet
Fantasy Records
Tracklisting

1. Like Magick
2. Fatal Deluxe
3. I Can See It Now…
4. Violet
5. Machines
6. You Deserve To Be Haunted
7. Holograms
8. Paper Tigers
9. Things I Thought Would Last Forever
10. Forgiveness

L.S. Dunes 2024 Live Dates

October 18 – Las Vegas, NV @ Fontainebleau Theater
October 19 – October 20 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young Festival
October 22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 23 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
October 24 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
October 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
October 27 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
October 28 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
October 30 – Richmond, VA @ The National
November 1 – Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues Orlando
November 2 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
November 4 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
November 5 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
November 7 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
November 8 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Dallas
November 9 – Austin, TX @ Waller Creek
November 11 – Albuquerque, NM @ Revel Entertainment Center
November 13 – Garden City, ID @ Revolution Concert House
November 15 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
November 16 – Vancouver, CAN @ Harbour Event Centre
November 17 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
November 19 – Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre
November 22 – Del Mar, CA @ The Sound

Pre-order Violet by L.S. Dunes HERE