TORONTO — Fans of the Barenaked Ladies got some good news Tuesday. The Canadian band’s 14th studio album, Silverball, will be released June 2.
“It would be fair to say if the band was collectively known as Stella, then this record would indicate the reality that Stella had indeed got her groove back,” quipped vocalist Ed Robertson, in a release.
Not since BNL’s 1992 major label debut Gordon, he added, has the band written songs “with no hand-wringing, second-guessing, insecurity or self-doubt.”
Produced by Gavin Brown, who made BNL’s 2013 release Grinning Streak, the new album features 13 tracks.
“We’re pushing in new directions but it’s still unmistakably these four guys playing together, and that’s what I’m most proud of,” explained Robertson, referring to bandmates Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn and Tyler Stewart.
“It doesn’t sound like anything we’ve ever done before, and yet it is unmistakably the new Barenaked Ladies record.”
Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Toronto and went on to create hits like “One Week” and “If I Had $1,000,000.” The group also performs the theme song for the TV series The Big Bang Theory.
BNL has sold more than 14 million albums and earned seven Juno Awards, a pair of Billboard Music Awards and a World Music Award. Both “One Week” and “Pinch Me” were nominated for a Grammy.
The band will hit the road in support of Silverball with the Last Summer on Earth tour. The U.S. leg, with Violent Femmes and Colin Hay (of Men at Work) kicks off June 5 in Columbus and wraps up in Seattle on July 26.
A Canadian tour is planned for the fall.
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