TORONTO — Barenaked Ladies fans have to wait until June 2 to get the band’s new album Silverball — but Global News has an advance stream.
The album, produced by Gavin Brown, features 13 tracks.
“It doesn’t sound like anything we’ve ever done before, and yet it is unmistakably the new Barenaked Ladies record,” explained Ed Robertson, in a release.
“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.”
Robertson said not since BNL’s 1992 major label debut Gordon has the band — which also consists of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn and Tyler Stewart — written songs “with no hand-wringing, second-guessing, insecurity or self-doubt.”
The video for the first single, “Say What You Want,” was viewed more than 400,000 times in its first week on YouTube.
BNL, formed in Toronto in 1988, has sold more than 14 million albums and earned seven Juno Awards, a pair of Billboard Music Awards and a World Music Award. The singles “One Week” and “Pinch Me” were nominated for Grammy Awards.
The band’s other hits include “If I Had $1,000,000” and “Brian Wilson.” BNL also performs the theme song for hit TV series The Big Bang Theory.
The Barenaked Ladies are performing throughout the U.S. this summer and will kick off the Canadian leg of the Silverball tour Oct. 19 in Prince George, B.C. The tour, featuring opening act Alan Doyle, will stop in 19 more cities before Nov. 21.
Every concert ticket purchased comes with a digital download of the new album.
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Here are the Silverball tour dates:
Oct. 19 – Prince George, BC – CN Centre
Oct. 21 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Oct. 22 – Victoria, BC – Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Oct. 24 – Kamloops, BC – Interior Savings Centre
Oct. 25 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
Oct. 26 – Cranbrook, BC – Western Financial Place
Oct. 28 – Grande Prairie, AB– Revolution Arena
Oct. 30 – Medicine Hat, AB– Medicine Hat Regional Event Centre
Nov. 1 – Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Nov. 2 – Red Deer, AB – Enmax Centrium at Westerner Park
Nov. 3 – Edmonton, AB – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Nov. 4 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
Nov. 6 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
Nov. 12 – London, ON – RBC Theatre Budweiser Gardens
Nov. 13 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
Nov. 16 – Hamilton, ON – Hamilton Place Theatre
Nov. 17 – Oshawa, ON – General Motors Centre
Nov. 18 – Kitchener, ON – Centre In The Square
Nov. 20 – Peterborough, ON – Peterborough Memorial Centre
Nov. 21 – Ottawa, ON – Southam Hall at National Arts Centre
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