Welcomer Release New Single ‘Impossible’ Ahead of Album + Tour
Welcomer today release the third, final and most rocking single, Impossible, from their debut album due out next month.
Impossible by Welcomer is a rollicking journey through youth and young relationships. Filled with relatable situations and vivid imagery, it is an anthem for the introspective. Released to conincide with NZ Music Month, and recorded with the support of NZ on Air, Impossible could be Welcomer’s most exciting release yet.
As lead songwriter Miles Sutton explains, the song’s title relates to “the impossible ways we cause hurt, get hurt and learn to keep going through young adulthood.” For all that, the song feels optimistic and is probably the most upbeat from the forthcoming Calendars. This is in large part due to Welcomer’s penchant for bookending desolation with humour; an everything-is-sad-but-everything-is-funny perspective that feels appropriate for these times. Impossible is available to stream everywhere now.
Calendars is an album that immerses you in a world, in that familiar struggle between failure and growth. Produced in collaboration with producer Jesse Austin-Stewart, this debut album brings a fresh lushness of sound to Welcomer that allows the intricacies of the songwriting to shine. Previous single Magazine Clippings feat. Lontalius was described by Undertheradar as “warm-spirited and elegantly arranged,” and invited listeners to be “swept away by the vivid sonic storytelling.”
Across 10 tracks, Welcomer dissect the pieces of a life and put them back together as a record that is intentional, ornate and affecting. Gladly, while Miles spent the intervening years since the group’s self-titled EP honing his songwriting, the raw vulnerability has not been lost in the process. In many ways it is a Saturn return album, a coming of age to where you feel things slipping away and the need to start catching them. Miles’ songs are brought to life by his band and collaborators; Eddie Crawshaw (Lake South), Ox Lennon, and Shannen Georgia Petersen (Sports Dreams). Calendars is out June 12th, digitally and on vinyl, with preorders available now.
Pre-orders for Calendars are available now through Bandcamp and Flying Out, Impossible and previous singles are available now digitally, and album release tour tickets are available through Undertheradar.co.nz.
WELCOMER – CALENDARS ALBUM RELEASE TOUR
12 June @ Snails, Palmerston North (AA)
13 June @ Porridge Watson, Whanganui
20 June @ Space Academy, Christchurch
21 June @ House Show, Dunedin (AA)
27 June @ NiceGoblins, Auckland (AA)
3 July @ Valhalla, Wellington
