Marlon Williams Shares 2018 Tour Dates + Single With Aldous Harding

Lyttelton superstar Marlon Williams has leapt into action announcing a nationwide tour in May 2018, and has shared a brand new single with Aldous Harding. The new song ‘Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore’ is accompanied by a video showing Williams as an eager to please and overworked cafe worker menaced by customers, and is the first release from Williams’ forthcoming sophomore album Make Way For Love due out Friday 16th February. The 2018 national tour dates will follow an extensive international headline tour by the smouldering talent, who is heading off around the country tonight for a series of thoroughly sold-out shows. Check out the details below and watch the video for new single ‘Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore (with Aldous Harding)’…

Undertheradar proudly presents…

Marlon Williams New Zealand May 2018

Saturday 19th May, Wellington, Hunter Lounge
Tuesday 22nd May, Dunedin, Glenroy
Wednesday 23rd May, Christchurch, Foundry
Friday 25th May, Auckland, Auckland Town Hall

Presale tickets available via Ticketmaster from Monday 13th November

Press release:

New Zealand’s Marlon Williams will release his sophomore album, Make Way For Love, on February 16th via Dead Oceans. Known for his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Love marks Marlon’s exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in the wake of a fractured relationship. In conjunction with today’s album announcement, Marlon announces an international tour and shares the album’s penultimate track, “Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore,” a duet with Aldous Harding, recorded via a late-night long distance phone call, plus an accompanying video filmed in New York City.

While Make Way For Love draws on Marlon’s own story, it captures the vagaries of relationships we’ve all been through: the bliss, ache, uncertainty, and bitterness. Like the best breakup records, Make Way For Love doesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it. Delicate and bold, tender and searing, it’s a mightily personal new step.

Make Way For Love was recorded with producer Noah Georgeson and his backing band, The Yarra Benders, in North California’s Panoramic Studios after several weeks of pre-production in his native Lyttelton with regular collaborator Ben Edwards. The finished result moves Marlon several paces from “country”—the genre that’s been affixed to him more than any in recent years, but one that’s always been a bit too reductive to be wholly accurate -- with forays into cinematic strings, reverb, rollicking guitar and at least one quiet piano ballad, on his most expansive work to date.

Currently in the midst of a sold out global preview tour, to support his stand alone single Vampire Again, next year will see Marlon take his captivating live show to 46 cities around the world for his largest ever headline tour.

Make Way For Love Tracklist:

1. Come To Me
2. What’s Chasing You
3. Beautiful Dress
4. Party Boy
5. Can I Call You
6. Love Is A Terrible Thing
7. I Know A Jeweller
8. I Didn’t Make A Plan
9. The Fire Of Love
10. Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore
11. Make Way For Love