Chromeo's Fifth Studio Album HEAD OVER HEELS Out Today

Head Over Heels, the fifth studio LP from Montreal funk legends Chromeo, is out today onBig Beat/Atlantic Records. Get the album, including "Must've Been" featuring DRAM, "Don't Sleep" feat. French Montana & Stefflon Don, "Bedroom Calling" feat. The-Dream, "Juice" and more here.

The band stopped by "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" this week to perform "Must've Been"-watch it here.

Furthermore, the band just confirmed Phase 2 of its World Tour, with new North American tour dates this fall (including stops in Chicago,Nashville, Brooklyn and beyond) as well as shows in London, Manchester and Paris.Tickets are on sale Friday, June 22-visitchromeo.net for pre-sales and more info. Funklordz VIP Experiences and meet & greets are available throughout the fall tour, details available here.

Chromeo's summer dates kick off tonight at New York's Terminal 5 with a very special album release show at Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow and further dates including Red Rocks Amphitheater, Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium and sets at all major festivals: Lollapalooza,Osheaga, Electric Forest, Outside Lands and more.

Featuring twelve tracks of funk and R&B history colliding with modern pop songcraft, Head Over Heels showcases Chromeo's catchiest singles to date; yet it is first and foremost a cohesive body of work, no small feat in today's ever-expanding playlist universe. Proudly opening their studio door for the first time, Dave 1 and P-Thugg intended Head Over Heels to be a polyphony, a collaborative celebration where their favorite artists' signature touches could intermingle in Chromeo world. Accordingly, the album's guestlist nods to superheroes of funk's past (guitarist Jesse Johnson of The Time, revered session bassist Pino Palladino, Mtume vocalist Tawatha Agee), present (funkadelic lovechild DRAM, R&B auteur The-Dream, post-colonial emcee French Montana) and future (upstart London bad gal Stefflon Don, rising neo-soul star Amber Mark, downtown New York darlings Onyx Collective). Absolute legends Raphael Saadiq and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkinseven join the party!

Sounding more confident than ever, Dave 1 stuffs his lyrics with mimosas, Mazda Miatas and miscellaneous romantic misadventures, cementing his signature neurotic spin on the break-ups to make-ups narrative. As evidenced by the album cover, P-Thugg fills pumps of his own, and his synth wizardry weaves a sonic palette far richer than any previous Chromeo release. There's the moodymidnight strut of "One Track Mind," the deep jazz-funk of "Just Friends" and the Minneapolis-by-way-of-West Coast frenzy of "Count Me Out". This is also Chromeo's guitar album if there ever was one: consider the Tattoo You Stones dirt on "Slumming It" and the furious Strat strumming on "Bad Decision", equal parts Prince and Mother's Milk era Chili Peppers. All throughout, Head Over Heels is driven by a beating heart that's realer than any reference or guest appearance, eschewing trends for something truly timeless.

Chromeo is the duo of Montreal natives and high school best friends David "Dave 1" Macklovitch and Patrick "P-Thugg" Gemayel. The group rose to prominence with their seminal 2007 releaseFancy Footwork, heralding the dawn of the '80s electro-funk revival.

CHROMEO-HEAD OVER HEELS

1. Must've Been (featuring DRAM)

2. Don't Sleep (featuring French Montana and Stefflon Don)

3. One Track Mind

4. Count Me Out

5. Bad Decision

6. Right Back Home To You (Interlude)

7. Just Friends (featuring Amber Mark)

8. Juice

9. Slumming It

10. Bedroom Calling pt. 1

11. Bedroom Calling pt. 2 (featuring The-Dream)

12. Room Service

CHROMEO LIVE

June 15 New York, NY Terminal 5*

June 16 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg

June 16 Brooklyn, NY Good Room (DJ Set)
June 18 Boston, MA House of Blues*
June 19 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore*
June 21 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall*
June 22 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre*
June 23 Rothbury, MI Electric Forest
June 25 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue*
June 26 Kansas City, MO CrossroadsKC†
June 28 Morrison, CO Red Rocks‡
June 30 Rothbury, MI Electric Forest

July 3 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall*

July 4 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall*

July 5 Quebec City Festival D'Ete

July 7 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Blues Fest

July 20 Byron Bay, Australia Splendour in the Grass

July 21 Melbourne, Australia Max Watt's House of Music

July 22 Sydney, Australia The Metro Theatre

August 3 Montreal, QC Osheaga Music & Arts Festival

August 5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
August 7 Ogden, UT Ogden Twilight

August 10 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium

August 10-12 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands

August 31-September 2 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot

September 3 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre

September 4 Edmonton, AB Union Hall

September 6 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatree

September 7 Vancouver, BC Skookum

September 10 Madison, WI Orpheum Theater§

September 12 Covington, KY Madison Theater§

September 13 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre§

September 17 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall§

September 18 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theatre§

September 19 St. Louis, MO The Pageant§

September 21 New Orleans, LA The Joy Theater§

September 22 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Works§

September 23 Millvale, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre§

September 25 Baltimore, MD Ram's Head Live! §

September 27 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel§

September 28 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore§

September 29 Norfolk, VA The NorVa§

October 1 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel§

October 4 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall§

October 5 Syracuse, NY SI Hall at the Fairgrounds§

October 6 Portland, ME State Theatre§

October 31 Manchester, U.K. O2 Ritz

November 1 London, U.K. Printworks

November 2 Paris, France Pitchfork Music Festival

*with Pomo

†with The Glitch Mob, Elohim

‡with The Glitch Mob, Elohim and Kittens

§with Steven A. Clark

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