Civil Twilight’s “Holy Dove” Arrives

CIVIL TWILIGHT DEBUT LIVE ACOUSTIC VIDEO FOR “HOLY DOVE” ON BAEBLE MUSIC

TRACK TOP 10 MOST ADDED AT ALTERNATIVE RADIO 

STORY OF AN IMMIGRANT NEW RELEASE DATE OF JULY 10  ON WIND-UP RECORDS

Civil Twilight’s live acoustic video for “Holy Dove,” from the band’s forthcoming studio album Story Of An Immigrant, premieres on Baeble Music. The single is Top 10 Most Added on Alternative Radio this week. Watch the video HERE and listen to the album version of the single via Soundcloud HERE. Of the video, Baeble says, “this stripped down, folksier take of the originally bluesy, propulsive number is absolutely beautiful.” The new LP is their third full-length release on Wind-up Records and has a new release date of July 10.

Civil Twilight’s Steven (lead vocals, bass and piano) and Andrew McKeller (guitar), Richard Wouters (drums) and Kevin Dailey (keys and guitar) spent one month recording Story Of An Immigrant with Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cut Copy) at Maze Studios in Atlanta. Of the title track and album theme, frontman Steven McKeller says “this song both lyrically and musically seemed to set the course for the new music we were writing. It was the first song written for the new record where we all collectively went, ‘I like this. Let’s keep going in this direction.’ We think musically it very naturally links our past with where we’re headed – and lyrically it’s in many ways the story of our lives, our band, and our journey.”

Civil Twilight started as brothers Steven and Andrew McKellar explored their father’s jazz collection and listened to their classically trained mother play piano in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1996, Andrew launched a teenaged band with help from his high school classmate, drummer Richard Wouters. The bandmates relocated to Los Angeles in August of 2005 where they co-produced their debut record, Human (2007). Several songs from the album were featured in prime-time television shows, including “One Tree Hill,” “House,” “Star Crossed” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Shortly after their debut release, the band moved to Nashville and signed with Wind-Up Records in 2008. After re-releasing their self-titled LP in 2010, the band’s debut single, “Letters from the Sky,” reached #5 on the Alternative radio charts and remained in the Top 10 for 6 months of the year, selling over 200,000 copies.

In 2012, Civil Twilight released Holy Weather and headlined a U.S. tour with Morning Parade as an opener and supported two months with Mutemath. Past tour mates have also included Florence & The Machine, Young The Giant, Jimmy Eat World, Of Monsters and Men and Neon Trees, among many others. Civil Twilight has played the main stage at festivals such as Bonnaroo, Hangout, Voodoo, Austin City Limits, Vh1 Best Cruise Ever, Milwaukee Summerfest, Kirstenbosch (Cape Town) and Rocking the Daisies (Cape Town). Their most recent single “Fire Escape” charted Top 20 Alternative, and received extensive coverage on MTV, Vh1 and Fuse.

CIVIL TWILIGHT 2015 TOUR DATES

*with Lake Lyon and Greg Holden

†with Gaslight Anthem, Cold War Kids, Cake, Airborn Toxic Event and more

‡with Cold War Kids

May 2                                                        Gulf Shores, AL                  The Hangout with WZEW*

May 8                                                         Greenville, SC                                               Artisphere

May 29                                                        Ferndale, MI                                         The Magic Bag

July 24                                                      Clifton Park, NY                          Upstate Concert Hall‡

July 25                                                          Buffalo, NY               Canalside Buffalo with WLKK†