Twin Peaks Share New Song "Butterfly," Extend Tour: Listen

Following the track “Walk to the One You Love,” Twin Peaks have shared another song from their upcoming album Down in Heaven (out May 13 via Grand Jury). Check it out via the handwritten lyric video below, which was created by the band’s Clay Frankel. They’ve also added tour dates, including a trek opening for Cage the Elephant; scroll down to see those, along with the single art and a statement about the song from Frankel.

In a press release, Frankel said:

This song was written in Texas last year for SXSW, when I was in a sickened state after playing twelve or so shows in five days. So the lyrics are a mixture of negativity and exhilaration. Exhilaration because I was doing what I most loved to do, and negativity because it was really taking a toll on my mind and body. Death was on the mind. Also sex. Also the Zombies (they played SXSW and there were posters of them everywhere). So I took the gentle and fleeting image of a butterfly and a simple group of chords and lots of yelling to make a sort of doomy dance song that quite honestly could be summed up as ‘let’s have sex because we’re all going to die.’”

Twin Peaks:

04-15 Sheffield, England – Picture House Social Club !
04-16 Glasgow, Scotland – Stereo !
04-17 Manchester, England – Deaf Institute !
04-18 London, England – Old Blue Last
04-19 London, England – Camden Barfly !
04-21 Paris, France – La Mécanique Ondulatoire @
04-22 Évreux, France – L’abordage
04-23 Reze, France – Festival L’Ere de Rien
04-26 Madrid, Spain – Joy Eslava #
04-29 Austin, TX – Levitation
05-13 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall &
05-16 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe Tavern &*
05-17 Montreal, Quebec – La Vitrola &*
05-18 Boston, MA – The Sinclair *^
05-19 Washington, DC – Rock ‘N Roll Hotel *^
05-20 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle *^
05-21 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street Nightclub *^
05-24 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg *^
05-25 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom *^
05-26 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe w/ Ne-Hi
06-02 Nelsonville, OH – Nelsonville Music Festival
06-03 Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center %+
06-04 Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion %+
06-05 Columbus, OH – Express Live! %+
06-06 Indianapolis, IN – Joyful Noise Recording ^
06-07 St. Louis, MO – The Firebird ^
06-09 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-10 Minneapolis, MN – US Bank Theater %+
06-11 Madison, WI – Alliant Energy Center %+
06-14 Calgary, Alberta – Big Four Building %+
06-15 Edmonton, Alberta – Shaw Conference Center %+
06-17 Vancouver, British Columbia – PNE Amphitheater %+
06-18 Troutdale, OR – Edgefield Amphitheater %+
06-19 Seattle, WA – WaMu Theatre %+
06-21 San Francisco, CA – The Independent ^$
06-24 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex ^$
06-25 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint %+
06-26 Glendale, AZ – Gila River %+
06-27 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad ^
06-28 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge ^
06-29 Omaha, NE – Waiting Room ^
07-15-17 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
07-23-24 Detroit, MI – Mo Pop Festival

! with Thee MVPs
@ with Mitski
# with Hinds
& with White Reaper
* with Jimmy Whispers
^ with Ne-Hi
% with Cage the Elephant
+ with Portugal. The Man
$ with Golden Daze

Watch Twin Peaks perform “Flavor” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2014:

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