DENT MAY PREMIERES NEW SONG “90210”
NEW ALBUM ACROSS THE MULTIVERSE OUT AUGUST 18 ON CARPARK RECORDS
ON TOUR THIS AUGUST + SEPTEMBER
Dent May released the newest single from his forthcoming Across The Multiverse album today; “90210” is a tongue-in-cheek ode to the Mississippi transplant’s new hometown of Los Angeles. “Caviar days / plastic surgery nights / 90210 with you by my side,” May sings.
Gorilla Vs. Bear premiered the track, saying, “The move to LA seems to be suiting your Mississippi boy from 39202 quite well on the swaying, swoon-y ‘90210’, as Dent dials down the disco vibes and lets his timeless songwriting shine with a welcome and warm West Coast sheen.”
Across The Multiverse is out August 18 and is available for pre-order via Carpark, iTunes, and Amazon.
Dent May will kick off a North American headlining tour next month. Tickets are availablehere.
Dent May 2017 Tour
8/05: The Glass House (Viva! Pomona) – Pomona, CA
8/23: The Rickshaw – San Francisco, CA
8/25: Revolution Hall Roof Deck – Portland, OR
8/26: Central Saloon – Seattle, WA
8/27: The Cobalt – Vancouver, BC
8/29: The Palomino – Calgary, AB
8/30: Vangelis Tavern – Saskatoon, SK
8/31: The Goodwill Social Club – Winnipeg, MB
9/01: The Entry – Minneapolis, MN
9/02: The Hideout – Chicago, LA
9/03: The Loving Touch – Ferndale, MI
9/04: The Horseshoe – Toronto, ON
9/05: Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC
9/06: Once Lounge and Ballroom – Boston, MA
9/08: Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
9/09: The Sound Hole – Philadelphia, PA
9/11: Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
9/12: The Earl – Atlanta, GA
9/13: Cobra – Nashville, TN
9/14: Proud Larry’s – Oxford, MS
9/15: Spacecamp – Jackson, MS
9/16: Gasa Gasa – New Orleans, LA
9/18: Walter’s – Houston, TX
9/19: Mohawk – Austin, TX
9/20: The Monarch – El Paso, TX
9/21: Hotel Congress – Tucson, AZ
9/22: The Bootleg – Los Angeles, CA
More on Across the Multiverse:
“Don’t wanna move to Southern California / I wasn’t really meant for LA…” So sang Dent May once upon a time, now he’s eating those words with a side of avocado toast in his new Los Angeles bungalow. What made the lifelong Mississippi boy pull up stakes and head west? “No one looks at you funny if you wear a tuxedo to the supermarket.” What he means is he moved there to shake up his surroundings, clear his head, and write the most accomplished record of his young career, the magical mystery tour de force Across the Multiverse.
Following the lead of musical-polymaths-with-LA-ties before him like Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and Harry Nilsson, Dent’s style on Across the Multiverse will be familiar to fans of his previous work. Yet there’s something more refined about this collection… Stately strings mingle with boogie piano like old friends. Synths weave a celestial backdrop throughout. Every verse, bridge and chorus in its right place, giving it the unmistakable feel of a true songwriting craftsman at work. Lyrically Dent has never been sharper, musing on themes like modern romance (“Picture on a Screen”, “Face Down in the Gutter of Your Love”), existential dread (“Dream 4 Me”, “I’m Gonna Live Forever Until I’m Dead”), and the distance to the moon (“Distance to the Moon”) as he searches for meaning among the infinite scrolling feeds of our 21st century augmented reality. The title track, a duet with Frankie Cosmos, is a deep space love song about finding love beyond impossible boundaries.
Across the Multiverse was written and recorded in a sunny bedroom in LA’s Highland Park neighborhood, with Dent producing and playing nearly every instrument himself. The tracks were selected from dozens of songs written after the LA move, a gold rush of productivity inspired by late nights DJing rare disco funk cuts at local watering holes. It’s his first album for Carpark Records and will be released August 18th.
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