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Ramona Fall's Brent Knopf and The National's Matt Berninger have formed a new side project, EL VY, and just announced a tonne of tour dates, see below.
If you were wondering, the name's pronounced like "the plural of Elvis and rhymes with 'hell pie', The project has been a long time coming since The National and Knopf's other project, Menomena, played small clubs along the West Coast nearly a decade ago. Their debut album is entitled Return to the Moon and is out October 30 on 4AD.
Speaking about the album, Berninger said: "This record is more autobiographical than anything else I’ve written, but the details aren’t true. It’s written in the voices of a few invented characters, composites of different people – myself, my wife, and other people I was thinking about.”
Listen to the first release from El VY, 'Return to the Moon' below
EL VY have announced a string of European dates for this December. Tickets go on sale 9am Friday August 7, for tickets and more information see here.
December
01 – COPENHAGEN, Pumpehuse
02 – HAMBURG, Knust
03 – AMSTERDAM, Melkweg
04 – COLOGNE, Kantine
06 – BERLIN, Astra
07 – BRUSSELS, AB
08 – PARIS, Trabendo
10 – LONDON, Electric Ballroom
12 – MANCHESTER, Gorilla
13 – DUBLIN, Whelans
