Michigan-based band The Swellers are set to release ‘Ups and Downsizing’ on April 12 via Fueled By Ramen Records.
The album is preceded by the single ‘Fire Away’ out on April 5.
The band have also announced their first ever UK shows - they are also confirmed for the Give It A Name Introduces Tour which kicks off on April 26 in Oxford. This includes a date on 30th April at Liverpool Academy, they will also be playing a string of their own headline shows.
Out late last year in the US ‘Ups and Downsizing’, was recently named one of the best albums of 2009 by both Absolute Punk and Punk News.
“The Swellers have topped their Everest and written an album that might just be the perfect balance of melodic & pop punk since [Green Day’s] Dookie,” gushed Absolute Punk.
Punk News raved it’s “without a doubt, the best thing FBR has released since the days when the Stereo, Jimmy Eat World and the Impossibles dominated the label’s landscape.”
Brothers Nick and Jonathan Diener started The Swellers as a trio in 2002.
In true punk tradition, ‘Ups and Downsizing’ is the outraged cry of a band that has seen its world on the precipice.
The album’s title song, and much of the album, was inspired by what had been happening in Michigan long before the recession hit elsewhere—dwindling jobs, people moving out of state, a bleak future—and how it hit the Diener brothers at home.
Like so many of their fellow Fueled By Ramen artists, The Swellers have proven themselves to be an aggressive and hard-working live act.
The band have been on the road nearly non-stop over the last three years, playing with the likes of Paramore, H2O, Motion City Soundtrack and Less Than Jake along.
Thus gaining them an army of fans and support from other bands with their reactive music and tireless work ethic.
They band play Liverpool 02 Academy as part of the Give It A Name Introducing Tour on 30th April.
Be sure to catch the band when they hit the UK for the Give It A Name Introduces tour and their own headline dates, full info below:
April
Sun 25 LEEDS The Cockpit – HEADLINE SHOW
Mon 26 STOKE Sugarmill - GIAN
Tues 27 BIRMINGHAM Academy 2 – GIAN
Wed 28 BRISTOL Academy 2 – GIAN
Thurs 29 CARDIFF Club Ifor Bach – GIAN
Fri 30 LIVERPOOL Academy 2 – GIAN
May
Sat 1 MANCHESTER Academy 3 – GIAN
Sun 2 GLASGOW King Tuts – GIAN
Mon 3 NEWCASTLE Academy 2 – GIAN
Wed 5 SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners – HEADLINE SHOW
Thurs 6 LONDON Kings College – GIAN
Fri 7 TUNBRIDGE WELLS The Forum – HEADLINE SHOW
Sat 8 KINGSTON The Peel – HEADLINE SHOW
Sun 9 NOTTINGHAM Red Room @ Rescue Rooms – HEADLINE SHOW
Mon 10 EXETER Cavern – HEADLINE SHOW
The Swellers are - Nick Diener (lead vocals/ guitar), Jonathan Diener (drums/ backing vocals), Ryan Collins (guitar) and Anto Boros (bass/ backing vocals)
www.myspace.com/theswellers
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