Dreamers New Album LAUNCH FLY LAND Set For Release 4/26

Everything that's worthwhile in life starts with an idea, but in order for that dream to be fully realized it has to be followed up with hard work, creativity and hope. Those traits lie at the core of DREAMERS, a project that was born out of frontman Nick Wold's seemingly impossible dream of rock stardom. "I originally went to New York University when I was 18 to study jazz but while I was on that path, I realized that I wanted to communicate to people in a way that was more accessible and aligned with my personality," he explains. Correspondingly in 2014, Wold decided to move into his dingy practice space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, so that he could afford to work one day a week and practice guitar five hours each day. "I had a $20 gym membership so I could shower and the space was teeming with rats and graffiti, but looking back it was a really positive time for me when I first immerse myself in writing 24/7, and started to find my own voice with it in a way I couldn't before."

Luck would have it that as soon as the songs started coming together, Wold met bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Nelson and they decide to join forces. "Nelson was in the perfect point in his life when we met in the sense that he had been in tons of bands and had lots of experience but he wasn't sure if he was going to do music anymore," Wold explains. "It kind of smacked him at the right time." From there, true to their moniker, things started happening at breakneck speed for the band. They released their self-titled debut EP later that year and DREAMERS' first single "Wolves (You've Got Me)" was soon in rotation on SiriusXM's Alt Nation, a nearly unprecedented milestone for a new act. The group got lucky once again when they linked up with drummer/vocalist Jacob Wick, who replaced the band's original drummer after the band relocated to Los Angeles in 2015, and began touring full-time. The following year Fairfax Recordings released DREAMERS' debut full-length This Album Does Not Exist, which featured breakthrough songs like "Sweet Disaster," and the band followed that up with a pair of EPs, LAUNCH and FLY, in 2018.

From experiencing the arena-rock grandeur of landing a coveted opening slot on Stone Temple Pilots' 2015 U.S. tour to performing at the Meadows Music & Arts Festival alongside Jay-Z and Gorillaz, there have been plenty of highs for DREAMERS over the past five years. But there have also been a fair share of crushing lows when it's come to dissolving relationships and personal struggles -- and that duality is present all over the band's second full length, LAUNCH FLY LAND. "The first two EPs were all about this big breakup that I had been through and these songs were written in the aftermath of that, so in a sense this album is really the sound of me discovering myself," Wold explains. From feeling like an outcast who doesn't fit in on the sweetly syncopated "Vampire In The Sun" to the aura of loneliness and longing at the core of "Insomniac," there is plenty of alienation inherent in the album.

However that's balanced out by songs like the album's infectious first single "Die Happy." "I wrote 'Die Happy' after I was coming out of the emotional weight of a breakup and starting to fall in love with the love song again," Wold explains. "I'm obsessed with the Beatles, especially their early material which was so joyful, so I wanted to write a song in that spirit. It's just about those small moments that you have that make you think this is a good life and you could die happy." Similarly, Wold describes "Someway, Somehow" as the most honest love song he's ever written. "It's about all these beautiful wonderful feelings but the last lyric is 'someway, somehow, I'll let you down,'" he says, "it's beautiful but also really sad at the same time." Wold's perspective was further expanded by his meditative approach to musicianship and psychedelic experiences in the desert that opened his mind to new ways of thinking - and that existential bent is evident on songs like "Celebrate."

While the band originally intended on releasing a series of three EPs that began with 2018's LAUNCH and continued with FLY, the band ended up writing so many songs for the final installment of the trilogy that it organically morphed into their second full-length, recorded by the band's longtime front-of-house sound technician Tyler Tedeschi. "Making this album was a really fresh way of doing things for me because we essentially had two years to keep writing and come up with as many ideas as possible," Nelson explains. "In the past it's always been crunch time and a lot of deadlines and I feel like having this type of a timeline allowed us to get deeply creative." Along the way DREAMERS also enlisted help from their friend, Joywave vocalist Daniel Armbruster. "Alternative doesn't have to be rock anymore when it comes to instrumentation, it just needs to go a little deeper than what the mainstream has to offer," Wold adds.

Although most of us can't say that we had Stone Temple Pilots' late frontman Chester Bennington buy us hotel rooms on tour so we wouldn't have to sleep in the van, the sentiments of triumph and tragedy on LAUNCH FLY LAND, are universal and DREAMERS are happy to have come out on the other side with these songs serving as an affirmation of the experience. "We can't wait to get out on the road and share these songs with people," Wold summarizes. "In the end, that's what this is all about."

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DREAMERS on tour

6/1 - New York, NY -Governors Ball

7/2 - Huber Heights, OH - Rose Music Center at The Heights

7/3 - Mt. Pleasant, MI - Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort

7/5 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Thatre

7/6 - Tinley Park, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

7/7 - Duluth, MN - Bayfront Festival Park

7/9 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre

7/10 - Bonner Springs, KS - Providence Medical Center Amphitheater

7/12 - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center

7/13 - Burgettstown, PA - KeyBank Pavillion

7/14 - Harford, CT - The XFINITY Theatre

7/18 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center

7/19 - Hershey, PA - Hershey Park Amphitheatre

7/20 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater

7/23 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavillion

7/24 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center

7/26 - Wantagh, NY - Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

7/27 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavillion

7/28 - Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre

7/30 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre

7/31 - Charleston, SC - Volvo Cars Stadium

8/1-4 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza

8/2 - West Palm Beach, FL - Coral Sky Amphitheatre

8/3 - Tampa, FL - MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre

8/4 - Jacksonville, FL - Daily's Place

8/6 - Houston, TX - Lawn at White Oak

8/7 - Del Valle, TX - Austin360 Amphitheatre

8/8 - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavillion

8/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavillion

8/11 - Chula Vista, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

8/14 - Avila Beach, CA - Avila Beach Concerts at the Cove

8/16 - Sacramento, CA - Cal Expo - Papa Murphy's Park

8/17 - Portland, OR - Veterans Memorial Coliseum

8/18 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre

8/20 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre

8/23 - Reading, UK - Reading Festival

8/24 - Leeds, UK - Reading Festival