AUTOHEART ANNOUNCE THE HEARTLANDS TOUR
Autoheart returned with “Indigo Chateau”, the third single from their forthcoming album Heartlands out August 15. Perhaps their most anthemic release to date, the track blends piano, strings and angular guitar lines with a lyric that dances between menace and melancholy – it’s part love story, part nightmare, part rising-from-the-ashes call to arms.
“Indigo Chateau” is for the outsiders, the ones who don’t fit, the crooked and cracked and all the more alive because of it.
Written as a response to a culture increasingly hostile to difference, the song walks a fine line between beauty and defiance. As the album opener, it sets the tone for the record and the nine additional songs that lie ahead. There is rage and grief, but also imagination, and escape. It’s about choosing reinvention over erasure.
The accompanying video, directed by long-time collaborator Joseph Wilson, is a surreal fable about control, escape, and joyful rebellion. Set in a dystopian dog pound, it follows a figure who refuses to play along – and in doing so, starts to wake the others up to just how absurd it all is.
Its villain, a cigar-smoking authority figure, stands in for the self-appointed gatekeepers of identity.
The final shot offers a calm inversion: a symbol of power, quietly reclaimed. There’s a single phrase – “I love it when a plan comes together.” For those who know, it’s a message.
“Indigo Chateau” follows “Sad Divide” and “Baby Bird” – tracks that reintroduced Autoheart as a band with fire in their belly and nothing left to prove.
While “Sad Divide” swelled with choral harmonies and emotional wreckage, and “Baby Bird” offered a punchy, punk-tinged pep talk for the broken-hearted, “Indigo Chateau” is something more spectral. It’s a howl of rage that comes after the fall – a vision of what might come next.
With Heartlands inspired by their sold-out 2024 tour of North America, Autoheart are set to return for their biggest tour to date, beginning September 5. Tickets are on sale now
Tour Dates:
09/05 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
09/06 – Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
09/08 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft at Center Stage
09/09 – Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
09/11 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage
09/12 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
09/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
09/14 – Boston, MA @ The Royale
09/16 – Montreal, PQ @ Theatre Fairmount
09/17 – Toronto, ON @ Annabel’s Music Hall
09/19 – Lansing, MI @ Grewal Hall
09/20 – Cleveland, OH @ The Roxy
09/21 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
09/24 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
09/25 – St. Lous, MO @ Old Rock House
09/26 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
09/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Café
10/10 – Manchester, UK @ Rebellion [sold out]
10/11 – London, UK @ Oslo Hackney [sold out]
10/12 – London, UK @ Dingwalls
10/30 – Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
10/31 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s
11/01 – Houston, TX @ Bad Astronaut
11/02 – Ft. Worth, TX @ Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall
11/04 – Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
11/05 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
11/06 – Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
11/07 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
11/08 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Ballroom
11/10 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens
11/11 – Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Ballroom
11/13 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
11/14 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theater
11/15 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/17 – Oakland, CA @ Ceremony
11/19 – Ventura, CA @ Ventura Music Hall
11/20 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
11/21 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
11/22 – Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Theater
Heartland track list:
01. Indigo Chateau
02. Denial
03. Heaven Is My Destination
04. Sad Divide
05. Baby Bird
06. Pearl
07. Somewhere In The Singing Darkness
08. Say That
09. What Was I Thinking
10. Lost
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