The announcement comes just a few weeks after the group blew fans away with the Tim Sessler-directed video for the album’s first single – the fragile, dark and intense ‘Home’.  The single currently sits at #4 on Amrap’s AirIt metro chart locally, and has been receiving international recognition with airplay across the likes of BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 6.

Fans of Dessner and The National, it was a career-defining moment when Aaron expressed great interest in working with the band. During April and May of 2015, Annie Hamilton, Liz Drummond and Hannah Field, along with their band, comprised of Cat Hunter and Mark Harding, made their way to Hudson in upstate New York and began recording their debut album with Aaron.

“It was a dream of ours to work with Aaron Dessner. We are so incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to make this album with him, and Jonathan Lowe, who engineered and mixed the album. Aaron captured the heart of what we are about, and we couldn’t be more thankful,” Little May say about the experience.

Recorded in the main hall at Future Past Studios, a converted nineteenth-century church in Hudson, New York, the unique setting helped capture an intensity now trademark of Little May’s music.  With the remainder of the album completed in Aaron’s garage in Brooklyn, New York set the visual soundtrack for this unique experience, as documented in the accompanying video for ‘Home’.

Their May/June European tour saw them selling out their London show two months in advance, alongside a packed Paris performance and string of UK dates. Across the pond in the US, Little May played alongside the likes of Mumford & Sons, Alabama Shakes and The Flaming Lips on the Gentlemen of the Road tour, before their performance at Bonnaroo Festival. The outfit will also perform at Reading Festival, Leeds Festival and Electric Picnic in August.

Little May For the Company National Tour
Friday 18th September – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Saturday 19th September – The Foundry, Brisbane
Thursday 24th September – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Saturday 26th September – Jack Rabbit Slims, Perth
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For their debut headline tour beginning in November, the trio are set to bring to life the haunting tracks that have captured many fans from around the globe and celebrate their debut self-titled EP (out October 10th) – making Australian audiences the first to hear the yet unreleased songs spun live.

No strangers to some of the country’s biggest stages, Little May have earned their live-set stripes at Splendour in The Grass, Laneway and BigSound and supporting the Australia tour of Stockholm-based, pop-sweetheart Mikhael Paskalev.

“Little May make folk tunes with a hint of ghoulish darkness, and they deserve all the glowing admiration they can muster,” said Frankie Magazine after the release of their second single “Hide” and only a year later the band have evoked fervent fans from around the world. Now with a live band set up with drummer Catriona Hunter and bass/keys player Mark Harding their delicately composed songs shimmer in the expansive sound and their first solo national tour sets to radiate across the country.

Little May Australian Tour
Thurs 6-9 Nov Kings Park & Botanic Garden Perth
Sun 16 Nov Rad Bar Wollongong
Fri 21 Nov Northcote Social Club Melbourne
Sat 22 Nov The Front Gallery & Cafe Canberra
Thurs 27-28 Nov Newtown Social Club Sydney
Sat 29 Nov Gorgeous Music Festival McLaren Vale
Fri 5 Dec Solbar Sunshine Coast
Sat 6 Dec Black Bear Lodge Brisbane
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