DMA’S Announce Fourth Studio Album ‘How Many Dreams?’

I OH YOU are proud to today announce DMA’S fourth studio album How Many Dreams? for release on 31 March 2023 – with massive lead single ‘Everybody’s Saying Thursday’s The Weekend’ and its accompanying video out now.

How Many Dreams? was ambitiously crafted by the band to be the grand sum of every part of who DMA’S are. Gleaned from over 70 early demos, it sees them drawing from a wider sonic palette than ever before.

Recorded in London with Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys) and Rich Costey (Sigur Ros, Muse, Foster the People), then completed with Konstantin Kersting (Mallrat, The Jungle Giants) in the band’s hometown of Sydney, How Many Dreams? charters a course with stops at dizzying highs and crushing lows. With songs to rave to and songs to cry to, it is DMA’S emerging from a darker place, and the exhilarating future sound of a band without barriers at the top of their game.

When DMA’S first teased their return with August track ‘I Don’t Need To Hide’, a sense of celebration and revolution was brewing. Glittering electronics and a rush-of-blood guitar attack embodied the euphoria of the band’s vaunted live shows perfectly. It clears a natural path for ‘Everybody’s Saying Thursday’s The Weekend’ (produced by Konstantin Kersting and Rich Costey), a track born from a phone call guitarist Johnny Took had with a mate, who was rallying Johnny for a Thursday night pint at the pub.

Johnny comments: “‘Everybody’s Saying Thursday’s The Weekend’, we’ve all thought it, we’ve all felt it. This song is about letting go of the things that weigh us down and embracing the future with a sense of optimism. Stepping in the ‘Right light in the dark times’.” 

Directed by Joel Burrows, the track’s video – which stars Netflix’s Heartbreak High actor Gemma Chua-Tran – places the song in its natural habitat: amongst the warmth of the setting sun, surrounded by friends as the energy of a fading summer slips by.

DMA’S new material arrives as their first since last year’s celebrated EP I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You, which in turn followed the band’s highest charting album to date, THE GLOW (ARIA #2, UK Official Albums Chart #4 and #1 in Scotland).

The band recently completed their biggest ever Australian headline tour and played UK main stages at TRNSMT and Reading & Leeds festivals. They are currently on tour with Kasabian through Europe, gearing up to return to the UK for a short run of sold-out headline shows, including London’s Roundhouse. Three Falls Festival dates and a huge support show with Arctic Monkeys at Sydney’s Domain follow on home turf, before a return across the pond for a UK album tour in April 2023.

As DMA’S sit on the cusp of releasing How Many Dreams?, the band have found an iconic, mythical status among their fanbase – 65,000 ticket sales on their last UK tour alone shows the open-armed response they elicit on international shores. Their world is one of acceptance, freedom of expression, collective high, and each twist and turn in their journey to this point has led them to what will be a landmark album release for the band.

How Many Dreams? opening offerings ‘I Don’t Need To Hide’ and ‘Everybody’s Saying Thursday’s The Weekend’ represent the comfort in being embraced, but more than that, they exemplify the biggest talent that DMA’S possess: the ability to distil the wrenches of their personal stories into anthemic universal experiences.