Dawes have shared their new single, “Still Strangers Sometimes,” the track was Co-produced by brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith alongside longtime friend Mike Viola, the song is off their forthcoming album, Oh Brother, available on Dead Ringers via Secretly Canadian Distribution on October 11. “Still Strangers Sometimes,” follows previous single “House Parties,” which is accompanied by an irresistible official music video interpolating behind-the-scenes footage of Dawes hard at work in the studio with clips submitted by fans of riotous party scenes from their personal lives.

“It’s a song about the spiritual investigation of long-term relationships,” says Taylor Goldsmith. “How a part of ourselves will be unknowable forever, despite our deep connections and intimate understandings of each other.”

Oh Brother marks a new chapter for Dawes co-founders Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith following 2022’s epic Misadventures of Doomscroller and the amicable departure of two bandmates last year. The album steers Dawes decidedly forward, honoring 15 years of Taylor and Griffin’s musical relationship, as well as the next era and natural evolution of their beloved band. That spirit informed much of the writing and recording, with each track initially recorded live with just Taylor on guitar and vocals and Griffin on drums, later incorporating additional studio instrumentation and collaborating with touring guitarist Trevor Menear.

“All you can really do is find out what are the most essential, truest, and idiosyncratic parts of yourself,” Taylor Goldsmith says. “And I like the fact that Griffin and I are kind of clinging to each other and holding on to each other more than we ever have. We’re grateful for each other in a new way. But we’ve also been through a lot.

“It feels like we’re reborn in a way, and I mean that with so, so much love and gratitude to everyone we’ve ever played with before! This is what it means to be a lifer, to have iterations. It means having phases and chapters, and this is a very clear delineation as to the beginning of a new one. So Oh Brother feels like a ninth record, but it also feels like a first record.”

This summer Dawes’ performed at Newport, RI’s annual Newport Folk Festival as part of Conan O’Brien and Real Musicians (accompanied by special guests including Jack White, Nick Lowe, Mavis Staples, Brittany Howard, Nathaniel Rateliff, Langhorne Slim, and Triumph The Insult Comic Dog) as well as joining Phil Lesh & Friends at last weekend’s Terrapin Crossroads Presents: Sunday Daydream Vol. 4 in San Rafael, CA.

Dawes
Oh Brother
Tracklist

Mr. Los Angeles
Front Row Seat
Still Strangers Sometimes
Surprise!
House Parties
King of the Never-Wills
The Game
Enough Already
Hilarity Ensues

Dawes 2024-2025 Tour Dates

AUGUST

29 – Iowa City, IA – University of Iowa Fall Welcome Concert §

NOVEMBER

7 – Knoxville, TN – Mill & Mine
8 – Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
9 – Durham, NC – Carolina Theatre of Durham
10 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
13 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
14 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
15 – Indianapolis, IN – Vogue
16 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed
19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
20 – Harrisburg, PA – XL Live
21 – Washington, DC – Warner Theatre
22 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
23 – Portland, ME State Theatre

DECEMBER

6 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
8 – Solana Beach – Belly Up Solana Beach
9 – Solana Beach – Belly Up Solana Beach
13 – San Antonio, TX – Stable Hall
14 – Houston, TX – The Heights
15 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits at the Moody Theater

APRIL 2025

9 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theatre
10 – Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Playhouse
11 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
12 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
13 – Princeton, NJ – Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theater Center
17 – Madison, WI – The Majestic
19 – Columbia, MO – Blue Note
23 – Denver, CO – Ogden
25 – Kalispell, MT – Wachholz College Center
26 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
27 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall

* w/ The Revivalists
† w/ Brad Paisley

‡ w/ Conan O’Brien & Real Musicians Ft. Dawes w/ Jimmy Vivino & Guests
^ w/ Phil Lesh & Friends Ft. Taylor & Griffin Goldsmith, Stu Allen, & More
§ Festival Appearance

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