Hear Bayside’s first single from new album
Bayside, who recently announced their seventh album, Vacancy, have released the first single, “Enemy Lines.”
Read more: Bayside announce new album, tour with the Menzingers, Sorority Noise
Vacancy will be out Aug. 19 via Hopeless Records, but in the meantime you can stream the first new track below.
Frontman Anthony Raneri tells Silverstein’s Shane Told this was Bayside’s most challenging record to make during Told’s Lead Singer Syndrome podcast.
“I moved to Nashville two-and-a-half years ago with my wife and baby. The plan was to go down for a couple of years, plant seeds and move back to New york. We came down and after a year of being here we split up,” Raneri says. “I was like, ‘do I live in Tennessee now? Alone?’ It was a crazy super isolated time where I didn’t know what was going to come next and moved into an apartment to try and sort things out. That’s where I wrote the record, I wrote Vacancy in that apartment. I had a couch, a TV, my bed, a desk, a computer and my guitar—everything else was in boxes, waiting for me to figure out where they were going to go. We were calling it the hotel, which is where the hotel on the cover came from; Vacancy had a double meaning, the physical and emotional experience. This is the first record I’ve written that’s had a theme to it, I didn’t want to write a typical break-up record, it’s not about what happened, it’s about the aftermath.”
Pre-orders for Vacancy are available now, with digital pre-orders offering an instant download of “Enemy Lines.” Physical pre-orders, vinyl and various merch bundles can be found here.
Vacancy track listing:
- Two Letters
- I’ve Been Dead All Day
- Enemy Lines
- Not Fair
- Pretty Vacant
- Rumspringa (Heartbreak Road)
- Mary
- Maybe, Tennessee
- The Ghost
- It Doesn’t Make It True
- It’s Not As Depressing As It Sounds
Bayside are set to embark on a North American with the Menzingers and Sorority Noise. Tickets are available now.
Tour dates:
August 11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
August 12 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
August 13 Atlanta, GA Wrecking Ball Festival
August 14 Charlotte, NC Amos Southend
August 16 Norfolk, VA NorVa
August 17 Baltimore, MD Rams Head
August 18 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
August 19 New York, NY PlayStation Theater
August 20 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
August 21 Boston, MA House of Blues
August 23 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar
August 24 Cleveland, OH Agora
August 25 Toronto, ON Opera House
August 26 Detroit, MI The Majestic
August 27 Chicago, IL 350 Fest
August 28 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
August 30 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
August 31 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
September 2 Seattle, WA The Showbox
September 3 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
September 4 San Francisco Regency
September 6 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
September 7 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater
September 8 San Diego, CA The Observatory North Park
September 9 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
September 10 Phoenix, AZ The Pressroom
September 11 Albuquerque, NM The Sunshine Theater
September 13 San Antonio, TX Alamo City Music Hall
September 14 Houston, TX House of Blues
September 15 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey Live
September 16 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater
September 17 St. Louis, MO The Ready Room
September 18 Nashville, TN Exit/In
[Photo credit: Megan Thompson]