Tinlicker’s emotional yet danceable highly anticipated third studio album, Cold Enough For Snow is out today via [ PIAS] Électronique. The LP features a starry roster of collaborations across the 13 tracks, inc. focus track “Glasshouse” with Julia Church. The Dutch duo, Micha Heyboer & Jordi van Achtoven, have also announced a full U.S. headline tour for September/October including multiple nights in New York and Los Angeles – full run of dates below.
Tinlicker’s diamond-sharp production skills reinforce their signature melodic sound with emotion-invoking indie guitar sounds, soulful vocals, arresting lyrics, and orchestral instruments, so that hearts, minds and feet can only blissfully surrender.
“Glasshouse” feat Julia Church showcases Church’s stirring, yearning, yet edgy voice with lyrics affirming faith in love – “I know/there is hope, even in the dark, you glow / I was never in doubt” – while fast, break beats and melodic piano arps create an uplifting yet thought-provoking vibe.
Album Tracks/Collabs: South African vocalist/producer Church (60mil+ streams) also sings on “Slipstream”, (supported by BBC’s Sian Eleri and Pete Tong), written/produced with major album collab partner, Boxer Rebellion’s Nathan Nicholson whose haunting, soul-tearing voice rides the woodwind melodies of the Metropole Orchestra on “Strawberry”, the breakbeat, pizzicato “Crossroads”, and the disjointed keys and punchy arps of “Staring Down Sunset”.
An uplifting indie singing guitar sound duets with Editors’ Tom Smith’s world-weighted, heart-catching voice on “This Life”, complements Kieran’s soaring vocal on “Nothing To Lose” feat Circa Waves, and emerges through the breathy voice and harmonium chords of “Who I’m Not” feat Cloves, while Brian Molko’s decadent tones cut through the uncharacteristically trancey setting of “Nowhere To Go”, to create a different kind of ‘Placebo’ effect.
“I love what music can do for people, become the soundtrack to lives we don’t know about, become very special to them.” Micha/Tinlicker
North American Tour Dates
20 Sep – Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO
25 Sep – The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ
27 Sep – The Novo, Los Angeles, CA
02 Oct – The Revel, Albuquerque, NM
03 Oct – The Aztec, San Antonio, TX
04 Oct – White Oak, Houston, TX
05 Oct – The Echo, Dallas, TX
06 Oct – Skydeck, Nashville, TN
08 Oct – Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
09 Oct – The Majestic, Detroit, MI
10 Oct – History, Toronto, ON
11 Oct – MTELUS, Montreal, QC
12 Oct – Terminal 5, New York, NY
