Australian artist Ben Abraham’s debut album, Sirens, is out today on Secretly Canadian. Download the album here and stream it here. The album is receiving early critical acclaim: NPR’s World Café calls it “distinctly human and direct” while Beats 1’s Zane Lowe praises its “beautiful songs.”
To celebrate the release, Abraham will tour the U.S. this spring with labelmate Damien Jurado, kicking off May 12 in Seattle. Further dates include May 18 at Los Angeles’ Troubadour, May 26 in Nashville, June 1 at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, June 5 in Philadephia and more. Tickets to the shows will be available this Friday, February 26 on www.benabraham.com.
Abraham recorded and produced Sirens in Melbourne with the help of friends and longtime collaborators Jono Steer and Leigh Fisher. The album also features a collaboration with Sara Bareilles, with whom Abraham connected online and struck up a friendship several years ago, on “This Is On Me” as well as additional production from Gotye’s Wally De Backer on “Speak.” The official video for album track “You And Me” recently debuted, watch it:
Abraham brought his live show, which Tone Deaf calls “disarming” and “truly stunning,” to the U.S. for the first time at last year’s CMJ. Abraham backs up his voice with only guitar and harmonium, in the vein of “Cat Stevens, if Donny Hathaway and Cat had a baby and he hung out with Sufjan Stevens and Feist,” Abraham says.
Since he began writing songs while working in a Melbourne hospital, Abraham has written and recorded an album while collaborating on other projects with Ta-ku, Wafia, Gotye and more. The son of Indonesian folk-pop stars, he has risen to prominence in his hometown of Melbourne and throughout Australia through his much-lauded live performances, where his voice and talent have consistently blown audiences away.
BEN ABRAHAM LIVE
with Damien Jurado
May 12 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre
May 13 Spokane, WA The Bartlett
May 14 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Cabaret
May 15 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
May 17 San Francisco, CA The Independent
May 18 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
May 20 San Diego, CA Cashbah
May 21 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
May 23 Austin, TX The Parish
May 24 Dallas, TX Club Dada
May 26 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
May 27 Indianapolis, IN The HI-FI
May 28 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
May 29 Ferndale, MI The Loving Touch
May 30 Toronto, ON The Garrison
June 1 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
June 2 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall
June 3 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
June 4 Hamden, CT The Ballroom at The Outer Space
June 5 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
June 7 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel
June 8 Pittsburgh, PA Club Café
June 9 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
June 10 Cincinnati, OH Woodward Theater
June 11 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
June 12 Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry
June 13 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
June 15 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
June 16 Denver, CO Marquis Theater
June 17 Salt Lake City, UT The State Room
June 18 Boise, ID Neurolux
SIRENS
- Sirens
2. Time
3. I Belong To You
4. She
5. You And Me
6. Collide
7. To Love Someone
8. Home
9. This Is On Me (feat. Sara Bareilles)
10. Speak
11. Somebody’s Mother
12. Songbird
13. A Quiet Prayer
PREORDER SIRENS
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