VIDEO: David Ramirez Releases 'Watching From A Distance' Video; West Coast Tour Starts Tonight

This September, David Ramirez released We're Not Going Anywhere, his second album in partnership with Thirty Tigers and follow up to his 2015 breakthrough album Fables. Today, KEXP premiered the video for his song "Watching From A Distance" in advance of his performance at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle this evening.

Check out the video!

We're Not Going Anywhere is now available for purchase and streaming via iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.

For We're Not Going Anywhere, Ramirez partnered with producer Sam Kassirer, who has helmed albums by Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive, Bhi Bhiman, and many other artists. In January 2017 Ramirez and his band decamped to the Great North Sound Society, an eighteenth-century farmhouse in rural Maine that serves as Kassirer's studio.

The Austin Chronicle recently published a review of the album and said, "With fourth album We're Not Going Anywhere, Ramirez arrives... the sound rises to meet the heft of Ramirez's writing, though surprisingly, through melancholic, Eighties-pitched synth and guitar."

Texas Monthly said, "The influence of expansive rock and eighties acts are heard in new synth-driven aural textures, but the compelling lyricism that has grown Ramirez's audience over the years remains the backbone of the record."

FLOOD Magazine premiered the video for "Twins" and said, "In a voice as honeyed as that of Ryan Adams, he couches his criticism in a spaced-out brand of folk that takes notes from the shuffling sadness of The War on Drugs and Hiss Golden Messenger."

UPROXX's Caitlin White shared the news of the album release and said "...the dark country blues of the album is not an overt message, hammered home; instead, Ramirez stands his ground by refining and compressing his sound, creating rebellious, lonely and soothing music in the face of such upheaval."

David Ramirez is currently on tour with support from Molly Parden. Find a full list of tour dates below.

Tour Dates:

11/1: Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern

11/2: Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret

11/4: Bellingham, WA - Green Frog

11/5: Portland, OR - Doug Fir

11/7: San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill

11/8: Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater

11/9: San Diego, CA - The Casbah

11/10: Tucson, AZ - Club Congress

11/11: Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar

11/17: Austin, TX - Mohawk

11/19: Dallas, TX - HOB Cambridge Room

11/29: St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill Duck Room

11/30: Omaha, NE - Slowdown

12/1: Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry

12/2: Chicago, IL - Schubas

12/5: Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle

12/6: Asheville, NC - Isis

12/7: Chattanooga, TN - The Camp House

12/8: Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge

12/9: Atlanta, GA - The Earl

12/10: Dothan, AL - The Plant

12/12: Orlando, FL - The Social

12/13: Tampa, FL - Crowbar

12/14: Jacksonville, FL - JackRabbits

12/15: Tallahassee, FL - The Wilbury

12/16: Birmingham, AL - Saturn

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