London, UK alt-folk artist Beans On Toast has announced a new album and dropped the first single as a music video. The new track is titled “A Beautiful Place,” and comes off of the upcoming Survival of the Friendliest LP, which is due out 01 Dec 2021 via BOT Music.
Per Beans:
”A Beautiful Place” is hopeful, optimistic and downright happy. A celebration of humanity at large, the beauty of the world and the randomness of our existence. It’s fresh, fun and will put a smile across your face.
I wrote Survival of the Friendliest when the bad news was everywhere.I switched off social media, looked to nature and zoomed out to write songs about a bigger, longer and stranger story. There are no songs about Brexit, about coronavirus, about climate catastrophe. I’d sung those songs already. I’m not naive to the challenges we face as a species and I’m not ignoring that. But in order to tackle our current predicament, I feel we need to be in a good place mentally and spiritually. This is an album about finding that peace in preparation for the road ahead.
Beans on Toast’s most recent album, Knee Deep in Nostalgia, was released on 01 Dec 2020. He’ll also be on tour supporting the new album throughout the winter. You can check out the new video and those tour dates below, and visit BOT’s Bandcamp or Spotify pages to hear more.
BEANS ON TOAST – TOUR DATES 2021/22
1/12 WHITSTABLE The Playhouse
2/12 CAMBRIDGE Storey’s Field Centre
3/12 COLCHESTER Three Wise Monkeys
4/12 GUILDFORD Boileroom
5/12 BEDFORD Esquires
6/12 COVENTRY Kasbah
7/12 ST ALBANS The Horn
8/12 TUNBRIDGE WELLS The Forum
9/12 BATH Moles
10/12 TRURO The Old Bakery
11/12 PLYMOUTH The Junction
12/12 EXETER The Phoenix
13/12 STROUD Prince Albert
14/12 READING Facebar
15/12 DERBY The Venue
16/12 STOKE The Sugarmill
17/12 LIVERPOOL Phase One
18/12 LEICESTER Soundhouse
22/02 PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
23/02 BRIGHTON Chalk
24/02 NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
25/02 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
26/02 BARROW Underground Music Society
27/02 SHEFFIELD The Leadmill
01/03 HULL Social
02/03 EDINBURGH Voodoo Rooms
03/03 GLASGOW Stereo
04/03 MANCHESTER Gorilla
05.03 NEWCASTLE Tyne Bank Brewery
06/03 NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre
08/03 OXFORD The Bullingdon
09/03 BIRMINGHAM Castle & Falcon
10/03 CARDIFF The Globe
11/03 BRISTOL Lost Horizon
12/03 LONDON Lafayette
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