White Lies Unveil New Studio Album Details “As I Try Not To Fall Apart, ” Release Title Track, Announce 48-Date Headline Tour

White Lies have today announced details of their forthcoming sixth album, As I Try Not To Fall Apart, which is released through [PIAS] on Fri, Feb 18th 2022.

The band has shared the title track from the album, with the official video, watch here: https://youtu.be/wt5Zu767sz8

We wrote this song quickly, late one night, the songs which come quickest are written from the gut and the heart, not with the head. It’s about accepting vulnerability as a man, and knowing it’s ok to be broken. There’s never been a more pressing time to spread the message that it’s ok to not be ok.

Recorded at Sleeper and Assault & Battery studios in London, the album sees long-term collaborator Ed Buller, who has worked on many of their albums including their debut To Lose My Life…, return to produce several tracks along with Claudius Mittendorfer (Weezer, Panic! At The Disco) also producing and mixing.

As I Try Not To Fall Apart sequence is as follows:

1. Am I Really Going To Die
2. As I Try Not To Fall Apart
3. Breathe
4. I Don’t Want To Go To Mars
5. Step Outside
6. Roll December
7. Ragworm
8. Blue Drift
9. The End
10. There Is No Cure For It

Arguably one of the most treasured guitar bands in the Europe, White Lies last album, Five, garnered much acclaim in 2019 with a SOLD OUT UK tour including multiple London Brixton Academy shows.

Having also released Ritual in 2011, BIG TV in 2013 and Friends in 2016, the past decade has seen the band establish themselves globally with back to back sold out tours in Europe and beyond, and today the band has also announced details of an extensive run of 48 headline shows in the Spring of 2022. The full list is as follows:

10.03.22 – NOTTINGHAM – Rock City
11.03.22 – MANCHESTER – 02 Academy
12.03.22 – NEWCASTLE – Boiler Shop
13.03.22 – BIRMINGHAM – Institute
15.03.22 – GLASGOW – SWG3 TV Studio
16.03.22 – LEEDS – Stylus
18.03.22 – BRIGHTON – Chalk
19.03.22 – BRISTOL – 02 Academy
21.03.22 – DUBLIN – Vicar St
22.03.22 – LIVERPOOL – Grand Central Hall
24.03.22 – NORWICH – UEA
25.03.22 – OXFORD – 02 Academy
26.03.22 – LONDON – Hammersmith Apollo

07.04.22 – PARIS – La Trabendo
08.04.22 – GHENT – Vooruit
09.04.22 – ANTWERP – Trix
10.04.22 – COLOGNE – Bürgerhaus Stollwerck
12.04.22 – FRANKFURT – Batschkapp
13.04.22 – KARLSRUHE – Substance
14.04.22 – BOCHUM – Zeche
17.04.22 – AMSTERDAM – Paradiso
18.04.22 – GRONINGEN – De Oosterpoort
20.04.22 – ROTTERDAM – Maasilo
21.04.22 – MAASTRICHT – Muziekgieterij
23.04.22 – HAMBURG – Uber & Gefährlich

24.04.22 – AARHUS – Train
25.04.22 – STOCKHOLM – Vasateatern
27.04.22 – HELSINKI – Helsinki Hall Of Culture
29.04.22 – GOTHENBURG – Pustervik
30.04.22 – COPENHAGEN – Vega

02.05.22 – BERLIN – Metropol
03.05.22 – LEIPZIG – Täubchental

04.05.22 – WARSAW – Progresja
05.05.22 – PRAGUE – Lucerna
07.05.22 – VIENNA – Ottakringer Brauerei
08.05.22 – MUNICH – Neue Theaterfabrik
10.05.22 – MILAN – Magazzini Generali
11.05.22 – ROME – Orion
13.05.22 – BARCELONA – Sala Apolo
15.05.22 – SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA – Sala Capitol
16.05.22 – PORTO – Hard Club
17.05.22 – LISBON – LAV
18.05.22 – MADRID – Sala Mon Live
20.05.22 – BORDEAUX – Krakatoa
21.05.22 – BREST – L’Antipode
22.05.22 – LILLE – Le Grand Mix
24.05.22 – ENSCHEDE – Metropool
25.05.22 – EINDHOVEN – Effenaar

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Recorded over two studio sessions, As I Try Not To Fall Apart is White Lies most expansive record to date, taking in explosive rock, electro-pop, prog-inspired invention, funk-tinged grooves and some of their most indelible hooks yet.

Working with Mittendorfer, formative versions of swaggering album opener Am I Really Going To Die and the airy rock of the title track were captured, whilst another round of songwriting at Buller’s house ahead of a second recording session really got them firing. “It got us on the same page,” says McVeigh. Soon a coherent album was emerging out of the mist, a record that streamlined everything great about White Lies: razor-sharp hooks, dark lyrical wit, defiant singalongs, airy soundscapes and dynamic instrumentation.

It’s well over a decade since the band’s breakthrough single Death introduced a group for whom the fragility of human existence has been a constant touchstone. Now in his 30s, chief lyricist Cave’s outlook on the great unknown has evolved. “I think the side of death or mortality that I always find interesting is the fact we all know it’s going to happen,” he says, “and how different people navigate that.”

White Lies tested their resolve to get there, but they didn’t fall apart. They have emerged with their most vital collection of songs in years.

White Lies are: Harry McVeigh (vocals / guitar), Charles Cave (bass) & Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums).