Vistas Announce Third Album 'Is This All We Are?' And Accompanying Autumn Tour Dates
Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Vistas have announced their third album.
The Scottish trio will release 'Is This All We Are?' on September 15, following up 2021's 'What Were You Hoping To Find' and their 'The Beautiful Nothing' EP, which arrived at the start of 2023.
Recorded at Liverpool's Kempston Street Studios in December 2022 with producer Rich Turvey, the record is previewed by its title track, a catchy, uptempo indie-rocker. Commenting on the song, the band said:
"Is This All We Are? was one of the earliest tracks written for the album and that central question posed in the title informed the theme of the entire record. It is essentially asking the question of: ‘What is the meaning of our time on earth?’, but the song is left open ended and doesn’t try to provide any answers."
Explaining the motivation behind the record, frontman Prentice Robertson added: "During the writing of both the EP and album, one of my family members became very ill and this became all encompassing in mine and my families’ lives. This led to many conversations about the fragility and meaning of someone’s life and where they go and what they leave behind after they are gone. As these subjects were so dominating in my thoughts, they became the central theme of the album. I think the title sums up these themes as a whole by asking ‘is this all we are?'.
"In our previous records I feel like the subjects of the songs were a bit more broad, and with this record I tried to make things more specific. There are tracks about why people can be cruel, tracks about losing someone, tracks about how unfair life can be, and tracks that question what the meaning of our time on earth is."
Vistas will appear at Kendal Calling and Reading and Leeds this summer, before a newly announced UK and European tour during November. Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (June 9).
'Is This All We Are?' tracklist:
1. Cruel Hearts
2. Bad Idea
3. Dopamine
4. Nowadays
5. Last Together
6. Is This All We Are?
7. I Know I Know
8. Sleeping With The Light On
9. The Garden
10. A Hit Of Heaven
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The band have not only confirmed their new album, 'Is This All We Are?', but they'll also be supporting it with a UK tour this November.
Fri November 03 2023 - GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow
Sat November 04 2023 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy2 Birmingham
Sun November 05 2023 - OXFORD O2 Academy2 Oxford
Tue November 07 2023 - BRISTOL Trinity Arts Centre
Wed November 08 2023 - BRIGHTON Chalk, Brighton
Thu November 09 2023 - PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
Fri November 10 2023 - BOURNEMOUTH Old Fire Station
Sat November 11 2023 - LONDON Electric Ballrooom
Sun November 12 2023 - NORWICH Waterfront
Tue November 14 2023 - NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
Wed November 15 2023 - SHEFFIELD Leadmill
Thu November 16 2023 - MANCHESTER O2 Ritz
Fri November 17 2023 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Newcastle University Students Union
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