The Lumineers share ‘Automatic’ video, add tour dates

The band adds second shows for Boston and Los Angeles, due to demand

The Lumineers share the official music video for the title track from their recently released album Automatic. The video was directed by filmmaker Anaรฏs LaRocca (Hundred Waters).

Automatic, released on February 14th, debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at No. 16, and is now topping Billboardโ€™s Alternative, Rock and Americana/Folk charts. The albumโ€™s streams were fueled in part by first single โ€œSame Old Song,โ€ which landed at No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart. According to Billboard, it is the eighth Lumineers’ song to chart at No. 1 on AAA. The song is also thriving at alternative where it is No. 4.

The band recently announced the North American leg of the Automatic World Tour, a run of dates at stadiums, arenas and amphitheaters starting July 3rd. Tickets for the tour have been selling briskly and the band is pleased to announce additional dates in Boston at Fenway Park on July 17th and Los Angeles at the Kia Forum on August 8th.

After 20 years of musical partnership, Automatic finds Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites traveling new sonic and thematic terrain with their most raw and personal collection thus far. Both men, now dads, fully embraced the life-altering, unromantic challenges and rewards of family life. When they reconvened to write, the emerging songs featured a new, aching vulnerability, sly humor, and bold acknowledgments of the need โ€“ for love, respect, and connection in an increasingly chaotic world.

Inspired by Peter Jacksonโ€™s 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back, the band, with the help of co-producers David Baron and Simone Felice, set up shop in the expansive tracking room at Woodstock’s Utopia Studio. Multiple set-ups โ€“ with two sets of drums, three different pianos, and an array of amps, guitars, and vocal mics โ€“ were laid out, allowing the musicians to pivot and capture as much as possible with minimal delay. The process further freed The Lumineers to perform the songs as a unit, allowing the band to capture the raw, organic presentation of the anthemic new tracks. For the first time on a Lumineers album, the band is credited as co-producers alongside Felice and Baron, who also engineered and mixed, as he did on the bandโ€™s last two albums.

Recorded in less than a month, the album, as Schultz says, feels โ€œvery much of this era.โ€ While songs like the self-effacing โ€œAssholeโ€ and the spartan, wry โ€œBetter Dayโ€ reveal a risky intimacy and heretofore untapped undercurrent of humor, Automatic remains what fans around the world have come to love about The Lumineers โ€“ shadowy themes wrapped in upbeat, infectious melodies, sky-high choruses destined to be sung by tens of thousands each night on the road, and what Fraites calls โ€œa palpable sense of connection between Wes and me. Thereโ€™s lots of love on this record.โ€

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn