Arlie Releases Debut EP 'Wait,' Invoke A Psychedelic Childhood in New "big fat mouth" Video

Today, Arlie releases their Atlantic Records debut EP 'Wait,' a collagist fantasia that filters classic pop songwriting through a squelching, synthesized psychedelic palette. Featuring production work from Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Local Natives) and mixed by Jason Kingsland (Youth Lagoon, Belle and Sebastian), 'Wait' has "all the right hooks, all the right instrumentation" (EARMILK) as well as a keen lyrical bent that is alternately yearning and self-deprecating.

Ones To Watch describes Arlie's 'Wait' as "offbeat music appealing to the millennial state of mind," while Flaunt says it is "brimming with lyrical metaphors and sentimentality, turning an eye to the self-deprecating and superficial generation upon us." Watch their nostalgic, kaleidoscopic video for their hit single "big fat mouth" over at The Nashville Scene: https://bit.ly/2PK4FV8

Says Arlie's Nathaniel Banks: "About halfway through the process of making 'big fat mouth,' a few friends and I hit a point where we got really sick of hearing each other talk about how our lives could be better, without any follow through. So we started a band. With no idea where we were actually headed, somehow we all got on the same page and put our heads together and built a flying machine powerful enough to get us up and above the mundane."

"We all just finished college and it feels like we're brand new to the world again. But at the same time we've got all this pain and all these limiting habits from growing up in an absolutely insane environment called western civilization. We have these debts weighing on us, incurred by our naive past selves. And we're so, so tired. But we're not going down without a fight. "Wait" marks that turning point."

Arlie is the product of mastermind Banks, whose genre-hopping sensibility is belied by an easygoing musicality rooted in pop from the '50s and '60s. Banks is joined by guitarist Carson Lystad and drummer Adam Lochemes.

Over the past several months, Arlie has risen from college dorms and house parties to Bonnaroo, shows with Rostam and Cold War Kids, 5 million+ streams, and their national fall tour - newly added dates below, including stops at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on December 1st, and a hometown return to headline Nashville's Mercy Lounge on December 7th.

Tour Dates
9/19 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom*
9/21 - Burlington, VT - The Monkey House
9/22 - Portsmouth, NH - 3S Artspace
9/25 - Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall*
9/26 - Boston, MA - Royale*
9/27 - Washington DC - U Street Music Hall*
9/28 - Winston-Salem, NC - Bailey Park*
9/29 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle*
10/1 - Richmond, VA - Broadberry*
10/2 - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre*
10/3 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West*
10/4 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn*
11/27 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
11/30 - Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre
12/1 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right
12/3 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
12/4 - Washington DC - DC 9
12/7 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge

* w/ Mt. Joy

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