The Lumineers

2023 Tour

Special Guest: James Bay

DATE: Saturday, Sept. 9 2023

DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM

SHOW STARTS: 6:45 PM

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The circumstances surrounding the creation of The Lumineers’ fourth album, “BRIGHTSIDE” were unlike anything Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites had previously experienced in their nearly two decades of making music together. They were five months into a projected two-year tour behind their 2019 album, “III,” with no plans to start work on another LP, when the pandemic forced them off the road in March 2020. That gut punch occurred as Fraites was preparing to relocate from Denver to his wife’s hometown in Italy, where COVID-19 was running rampant. Suddenly, everything was up in the air. But finding themselves with time on their hands, they figured they might as well make use of it. Each wound up recording a solo album—“accidentally,” Schultz jokes—and those spontaneous side trips inspired them to flip the script on their collaborative creative process.

“A big part of what excited us about this record was that it was coming from a very different place than our previous albums—all of them,” says Schultz. Part of what made our earlier records cool was that they were very pored over and every note mattered. And I feel like we did that well, but this one felt way more alive. We were performing it in a more urgent, more dangerous way than any of the other records, with the exception of certain songs like ‘Big Parade’ on our first album, ‘Angela’ on our second or ‘Jimmy Sparks’ and our third—those were all done last-minute in the studio. So this whole album is like a last-minute record.”

Schultz compares the making of "BRIGHTSIDE" to “taking on a different style of cooking, where you have these skills in one area and you’re trying to apply them, but you’re also naive about how to do this other thing. A big part of that was just finding the spirit of each song. So this is an exciting new direction for us. I don’t think I could go back to making records the old way now, because this one was so much more fun to make, and it feels so much more alive. There’s a fire to this record that I don’t think we were willing to go for in the past. We were able to get out of our own way and go direct to the source.”