Dallas Green will be releasing his 3rd solo album as a singer-songwriter under the moniker CITY AND COLOUR on Dine Alone Records. The album titled Little Hell is scheduled for release on June 10th, 2011 in Australia and is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2008’s Bring Me Your Love, which was certified platinum in Canada. Alternately sparse and inviting, intense and delicate, Little Hell shows music fans another side of Dallas’ incredible songwriting skills, and features some of his finest songs to date. The track listing for Little Hell is listed below.

Little Hell was recorded earlier this winter at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, ON with producer/engineer/mixer Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie). Fans got a sneak preview of a brand new track from the upcoming album when an alternate version of the song titled ‘Northern Wind’ recently made its debut on a special Valentine’s Day episode of the hit series One Tree Hill.  Dallas performed on the episode as part of the show’s story line.

Little Hell – named after the album’s title track, a song that explores the little heavens and little hells that comprise a relationship – is the first of Green’s albums to be recorded and mixed to tape. his sonic move ultimately resulted in the album’s warm immediacy, allowing the songs to take on spaciousness previously unheard in City and Colour albums. The record allows Dallas to highlight all of the facets of his songwriting, from blues-tinged rockers to pedal steel-soaked acoustic gems. Songs like ‘Northern Wind’ have a beautiful intimacy, as if Dallas is in the same room and singing right to you, while ‘Sorrowing Man’ is dark and brooding, anchored by an ominous organ in the chorus. The record also highlights Dallas‘ impressive vocal range, from driving a full band on the rousing chorus of ‘Natural Disasters’ or sighing mellifluously on opener ‘We Found Each Other in the Dark’.

This week, City and Colour released a special EP of four songs performed live in St. David’s Church in Austin, TX.  The EP titled iTunes Live: SXSW, includes a live version of ‘O’Sister’.

 

Little Hell Track Listing:


1. We Found Each Other in the Dark

2. Natural Disaster

3. The Grand Optimist

4. Little Hell

5. Fragile Bird

6. Northern Wind

7. O’Sister

8. Weightless

9. Sorrowing Man

10. Silver and Gold

11. Hope for Now

 

City And Colour is touring Australia, supported by Dine Alone/ Shock labelmates Hey Rosetta! (whose new album ‘Seeds’ is in stores April 1. All dates sold out in double-quick time, for what promises to be amazing shows preceding the album release.

 

APRIL 2011 AUSTRALIAN TOUR (ALL SHOWS SOLD OUT)

April Tue 5 & Wed 6 Sydney (Enmore)

Thur 7 Melbourne (Palace Metro)

Fri 8 Brisbane (Tivoli)

Sun 10 Adelaide (HQ)

Mon 11 Perth (Astor)