Citizen Unveil Video For “In the Middle of It All”
Citizen is set to release As You Please on October 6th via Run For Cover Records, and the band has just unveiled the Christopher Good-directed video for a brand new track called “In the Middle of It All”….
“We began dialogue with Christopher Good immediately after finishing the Jet video. We knew we didn’t want to physically appear in the video. We told him to feel free to make it as bizarre as he wanted.” says Citizen’s Nick Hamm, adding “It’s interesting approaching a video this way because I feel like my interpretation is from an outside perspective, similar to everyone that will see it. Watching the character search desperately for identity and it ultimately being fruitless is something I think a lot of us confront at some point.”
Two years removed from their previous Run For Cover LP, Everybody Is Going To Heaven, Citizen’s perspective is far less sublime. As You Please is a confrontational record, incapable of turning a blind eye toward the inescapable strife. And so, the band pursues the source of discontent that is ravaging it’s Rust Belt city of Toledo, Ohio with their most dynamic record to date.
As You Please also showcases the growing versatility of a band seven years deep and still restless. Citizen has churned and ground out their own unique foothold within the greater context of alternative rock. Written over the course of a year, the record is devoid of the brutish and sinister elements found on Everybody Is Going To Heaven. Here, Citizen go beyond their early grunge contrasts and strive for something benevolent. As You Please might read as meek, but it represents Citizen in its most confident and expansive state.
Citizen is set to take their new album on the road with a headlining tour that features support from Sorority Noise and Great Grandpa.
Citizen on tour!
Oct 17 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Oct 18 Chicago, IL @ Metro
Oct 19 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
Oct 20 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Oct 21 Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room
Oct 22 Boston, MA @ Royale
Oct 24 Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
Oct 26 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
Oct 27 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
Oct 28 Asbury Park, NJ @ House Of Independents
Oct 29 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage
Oct 31 Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
Nov 01 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Nov 02 Orlando, FL @ The Social
Nov 03 Margate, FL @ O’Malley’s
Nov 04 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
Nov 05 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Nov 06 Nashville, TN @ The Basement – East
Nov 08 Houston, TX @ Walter’s
Nov 09 Dallas, TX @ Trees
Nov 10 McDade, TX @ Sound On Sound Fest
Nov 12 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
Nov 13 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
Nov 14 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
Nov 15 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent
Nov 17 San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
Nov 18 Portland, OR @ Analog Theater
Nov 19 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Nov 21 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Nov 22 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
Nov 24 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
Nov 25 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
*All dates with Sorority Noise and Great Grandpa
Get tickets here
Praise for Citizen
“…reminds me a bit of the moment that Jawbreaker signed to a major label to release their final album Dear You” – Stereogum
“The band has moved from a group of late-teenagers to young adults, with the writing chops and musicianship to match. Tracks like “Cement” carry a new texture and weight that’s a result of pushing their writing abilities to the limits.” – Noisey
“Folding in overcast guitar lines and largely taming their vocals to more breathy coos pushes them just a little closer to the downtrodden realms of more wiry shoegaze, not unlike similarly punk-rooted revivalists like Nothing and Title Fight.” – SPIN
“With Everybody is Going to Heaven, Citizen have forged a visceral, stunningly nuanced work that is nothing short of immaculate.” – Exclaim
