Villagers announce deluxe edition of their latest album 'Fever Dreams'
27th May 2022
At the end of last year, Villagers released their excellent fifth album Fever Dreams; a paean to human connection, the transporting and hypnotic record hit the Top 20 in the UK charts and garnered praise from across the board. Villagers’ Conor O’Brien saw Fever Dreams as a way of bringing the real and the surreal together: “I had an urge to write something that was as generous to the listener as it was to myself,” he says. “Sometimes the most delirious states can produce the most ecstatic, euphoric and escapist dreams.”
Today, Villagers are pleased to announce a digital-only deluxe edition of Fever Dreams which will feature three beautiful and intimate acoustic versions of the singles “The First Day”, “So Simpatico” and “Circles In The Firing Line”.
Stream all three acoustic versions here.
O’Brien was joined by Kevin Corcoran on keys for the performances and this is the first time these tracks are available digitally.
Alongside, Villagers’ rescheduled UK tour dates, they will be playing a string of festivals this summer and O’Brien has announced his first ever acoustic tour in Europe.
Upcoming live dates15th June - Galway Folk Festival, Galway *
22nd June – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire *
23rd June – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire *
1st July – Stendhal Festival, Limavady
6th July – Mad Cool Festival, Madrid
14th July – Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
30th July - Mobo Festival, Majorca
19th August – Open House Festival, Bangor, Co Down
20th August - Ballykeefe Amphitheatre, Co Kilkenny
22nd August – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
23rd August – The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
24th August – Phoenix, Exeter
27th August – The Waterfront, Norwich
29th August – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
24th Sept - Roscommon Night & Day Festival, Roscommon
30th Sept - Estúdio Time Out, Lisbon *
14th Oct - Södra Teatern, Stockholm *
15th Oct - Kulturekirken Jakob, Oslo *
16th Oct - Bremen Teater, Copenhagen *
19th Oct - Paard Van Troje, Den Haag *
20th Oct - Schouwburg Odeon, Zwolle *
22nd Oct - Stadsschouwburg, Groningen *
23rd Oct - Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht *
* = Acoustic shows
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Villagers Fever Dreams
Album | 20th August 2021
Villagers is pleased to announce his fifth studio album Fever Dreams
Written over the course of two years, the main bodies of the songs were recorded in a series of full-band studio sessions in late 2019 and early 2020. Over the course of the long, slow pandemic days, O’Brien refined them in his tiny home studio in Dublin, and the album was then mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).
O’Brien says on the gestation of Fever Dreams: “I had an urge to write something that was as generous to the listener as it was to myself. Sometimes the most delirious states can produce the most ecstatic, euphoric and escapist dreams.”
Villagers is pleased to announce his fifth studio album Fever Dreams
Written over the course of two years, the main bodies of the songs were recorded in a series of full-band studio sessions in late 2019 and early 2020. Over the course of the long, slow pandemic days, O’Brien refined them in his tiny home studio in Dublin, and the album was then mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).
O’Brien says on the gestation of Fever Dreams: “I had an urge to write something that was as generous to the listener as it was to myself. Sometimes the most delirious states can produce the most ecstatic, euphoric and escapist dreams.”