Cua have announced a brand new album due for release at the end of this month that will be supported by a string of UK tour dates across England and Scotland (see details below).
They say the new record is something very positive, born out of the lockdown that marked a necessary departure from a traditional recording setting to remote locations; a new way of thinking – and doing it.
“Out of this last period of time and experience, we persevered and continued writing and recording,” said vocalist and guitarist, Shane Booth.
“The new album, entitled Oh Sun Shine Down, has a very spiritual line running through it, in the sense of all the loss that was felt over the past couple of years, and what there may be to be hopeful about as we look ahead.”
The first single from the record, to be released this week, is, they say, “a song of hope, symbolic in nature with the rising of the sun each day.”
“Having a little celebration each time we know the world has come back into brightness again and being in awe of it, enjoying the experience it to its fullest – that’s the feeling we built this around.
”As the sun comes and goes in a set time, so maybe we can be more mindful about our own rhythms and timings and different phases and cycles we go through and know how best to rise with the sun each day and just do your best.”
It is, say the lads, all about remembering to be thankful and grateful for all of life’s seemingly little things. Watch the accompanying video for the playful upbeat number below:
The new album, their fourth, was a departure from what went before. Written and recorded through the doldrums of the pandemic, while working remotely, they decided to make it “more expansive from an instrumentation perspective.”
“As our world became more limited physically, we set out to have less limits internally and just did what we felt was right in all of these very different circumstances.
“We drew our inspiration from the little big things much of which revolve around the sun, hence the album title.
“We really missed what we feel is at the very driving core of Cua, which is getting out there to play for people. We love being in front of an audience, feeling that instant feedback and sense of community. We have truly missed this,” he added.
Now’s your chance to catch them this April, they will be back for another series of dates in Novemeber.
Cua Upcoming Tour Dates
Fri April 8: Birnam Arts Centre, Perthshire
Sat 9: Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
Mon 11: Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan
Tues 12: Old Ship Inn, Lowdham
Wed 13: Café No 8 Sheffield
Thurs 14: Pump House, Louth, Lincs
Fri 15: The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber
Sat 16: Square & Compass, Worth Matravers
Sun 17: Square & Compass, Worth Matravers
Tues 19: Green Note @ Aces & Eights, Tufnell Park, London
Thurs 21: Fishery Wharf Cafe, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead
Fri 22: Grayshott Village Hall, Grayshott, Surrey
Sat 23: King’s Somborne Village Hall
Sun 24: Whitstable Sessions, Kent
More here: https://www.cuamusic.com/