It’s been eleven years since the last Allo Darlin’ album, the Anglo-Australian indiepop quartet are finally back with a new record Bright Nights. The album is due July 11 on Slumberland (USA) and on Fika Recordings (UK) ahead of live UK dates in October.
Out today is the new single ‘My Love Will Bring You Home,’ the second track to be taken from the forthcoming album following April’s rapturously received ‘Tricky Questions.’
Missing each other and the music they made together, Allo Darlin’ started having group Zoom calls during the early days of the pandemic, and decided that when the pandemic was over, they would become a band again. True to their word, in early 2023, the band announced that they would play a couple of shows in October of that year in the UK, and the fan response was truly overwhelming. Tickets sold out in minutes, with fans traveling from all over the world, and the band had to upgrade their London show to a venue twice the size of the original. It seemed like their fans had missed Allo Darlin’ as much as they had missed each other.
Bright Nights follows the emotional tides of the preceding ten years: “It’s an album from the heart, dealing with themes of love, birth and death, which are things we reflect more on than we did when we made our first album. I would hope that the album sounds timeless and joyous, at other times reflective and emotional” says songwriter and vocalist Elizabeth Morris Innset.
Drawing inspiration from a mix of classic pop, folk and country, Bright Nights picks up where Allo Darlin’ left off with the warmth of 2014’s We Come From The Same Place, and recalls the confident and sophisticated sound of their second album, Europe. “When I listen to it I think of the desert, but I can see the sea. The sweet sounds of summer’s bright nights in the Northern hemisphere, but an awareness that winter will one day return”.
While Bright Nights isn’t a country album, the timelessness of folk and country influences weave throughout the record. ‘My Love Will Bring You Home’ might be written about Elizabeth’s young daughters, but it’s a mother’s love song, disguised as a country love song. “It also makes me feel a connection to the place I come from, which is a country town in Queensland, Australia – if I think of myself as a country singer, it makes more sense that I come from Rockhampton.”
Bright Nights:
- In The Spring
- Tricky Questions
- My Love Will Bring You Home
- Northern Waters
- You Don’t Think Of Me At All
- Historic Times
- Cologne
- Stars
- Slow Motion
- Bright Nights
