NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS MAY 28
WITH SHOWS ACROSS CANADA

“It’s music for a nightclub in a moon colony. It’s music for a retro-futuristic recreation of an Eastern Europe metropolis that never quite existed. It’s music for an encroaching dystopia.”  – Stereogum (Album of The Week)

“The first hints of greatness came with the release of EP1 in 2014, followed by the debut full-length, Blue Wave, two years later. But it's the majesty of the 14 songs that fill Radiant Dawn that show just how far this group has come.” – LA Weekly

“If Radiant Dawn is the soundtrack for the end of society as we know it, songs such as I Feel Emotion, Faithless and Despair will make you want to dance to death.”
– Exclaim! (8/10)

Toronto, ON – May 17, 2019 – Synth-pop trio, Operators’, new album, Radiant Dawn, is out today on Last Gang Records. The band, featuring Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits), Devojka, and Sam Brown (Divine Fits, New Bomb Turks), previously shared the first single, Faithless and the video for album track, I Feel Emotion.

Radiant Dawn is currently featured as Stereogum’s “Album of the Week”, who said “it’s music for a nightclub in a moon colony. It’s music for a retro-futuristic recreation of an Eastern Europe metropolis that never quite existed. It’s music for an encroaching dystopia.”  LA Weekly similarly anointed the album, saying, “the first hints of greatness came with the release of EP1 in 2014, followed by the debut full-length, Blue Wave, two years later. But it's the majesty of the 14 songs that fill Radiant Dawn that show just how far this group has come.” Exclaim! shared a stellar 8/10 review, proclaiming, “If Radiant Dawn is the soundtrack for the end of society as we know it, songs such as I Feel Emotion, Faithless and Despair will make you want to dance to death.” Buy/Stream Radiant Dawn here.

The album's nine tracks meld raw analog hardware with Boeckner's distinct voice to create an immersive cinematic sound. Interspersed between the tracks are instrumental intertitles that amplify the album’s 1970s sci-fi dystopian feel. For fans of Boeckner’s catalogue, Radiant Dawn feels like the next logical step in the artist’s two-decade career, while maintaining a completely fresh energy.

Radiant Dawn was written and recorded throughout 2018 and early 2019 in Montreal and Vancouver Island. Arcade Fire’s Tim Kingsbury played bass on the album’s closing track, Low Life. The album was co-produced by Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson along with up and coming Montreal engineer Napster Vertigo. It was mastered by the Lodge’s Emily Lazar (on the heels of her 2019 Grammy® award win).

Operators is a Montreal based project. The band released an EP (EP1) in 2014, and released their first LP (Blue Wave) in 2016, via Last Gang Records. While recording their sophomore LP, the members of the band kept busy with a series of other endeavors, including the promotional cycle around Wolf Parade’s Cry Cry Cry LP, a series of performances in which Operators played material from the Handsome Furs catalog (which all sold out in less than six hours), and Boeckner’s original song for the critically acclaimed 2018 film, Mandy.

Operators also recently announced an extensive North American summer tour, kicking off May 28^th at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall, touring Canada through June, and hitting venues across the US through July. You’ll be able to catch their electric live set when they headline LA’s Teragram Ballroom, NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, and more. See all tour dates below and visit www.operatorsmusic.com for tickets links and more information.

WATCH:

I Feel Emotion
Radiant Dawn Album Trailer
 

Buy/stream Radiant Dawn: smarturl.it/radiantdawn

TRACKLIST:

1.Days

2.I Feel Emotion

3.Faithless

4.(Public Void)

5.In Moderan

6.(Airlock)

7.Terminal Beach

8.(Object Sighting)

9.Despair

10.Under Occupation)

11.Come And See

12.Strange

13.(The Radiant Dawn)

14.Low Life

OPERATORS ON TOUR:
May 28 - Chicago, IL- Lincoln Hall
May 29 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club
May 31 - Winnipeg, MB - Good Will
June 1 - Saskatoon, SK - Capitol
June 3 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite
June 4 - Calgary, AB - Commonwealth
June 6 - Victoria, BC - Upstairs
June 7 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club
June 8 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club
June 9 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
June 10 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir
June 12 - San Francisco, CA - Independent
June 13 - Los Angeles CA – Teragram Ballroom
June 14 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
June 15 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
June 17 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
June 18 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake

June 19 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
June 20 - Dallas, TX - Three Links
June 21 - Austin, TX - 3TEN ACL Live
June 22 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
June 24 - Atlanta, GA - Earl
June 25 - Nashville, TN - High Watt
June 26 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups
July 10 - Allston, MA - Great Scott
July 11 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
July 12 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
July 13 - Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall

August 29 - Tromsø, NO - DRIV Festival

August 31 - Skopje, MK - Zradvo Mladi Festival

September 1 - Belgrade, RS - Elektropionir 

September 3 - Budapest, HU - Durer Kert

September 4 - Zagreb, HR - Vintage Industrial Bar 

September 5 - Vienna, AT - Fluc 

September 6 - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory

September 7 - Berlin, DE - Torstrassenfestival

September 11 - Rijeka, HR - – Klub Zivot

September 12 - Ljubijana, SL - KINO ŠIŠKA

September 15 - Colmar, FR - Le Grillen

September 17 - Luxembourg, LX - De Gudde Wellen 

September 18 - Rotterdam, NL - Rotown 

September 19 - London, UK - Sebright Arms 

September 20 - Bucharest, RO - Control Club

September 21 - Cluj Napoca, RO - Form Café 

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