
The Dare has shared a new single, ‘Tambourine,’ and announced details of a forthcoming EP. Check out the details below.
The new track marks the latest preview of the forthcoming EP, which is titled ‘Freakquencies: Vol 1’.
Set for release on August 22 via Polydor/Republic Records, it will be the first-ever instrumental release from the artist, whose real name is Harrison Patrick Smith. It also marks the follow-up to ‘What’s Wrong With New York?: Afters’, the deluxe version of his debut album, which arrived last year.
Comprising four tracks, the songs showcase a more intense side to The Dare’s discography, and fittingly share a name with his now-legendary New York party Freakquencies. As expected, the songs will capture the same atmosphere as those club nights – visit here to pre-order.
Check out the club-inspired ‘Tambourine’ below, along with the complete tracklist of the new EP.
The ‘Freakquencies: Vol 1’ tracklist is
1. ‘Kick’
2. ‘Modelizer’
3. ‘Tambourine’
4. ‘Exhilaration’
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The Freakquencies events have become a pillar of the nightlife in New York City, and began at Manhattan’s basement bar Home Sweet Home. Since then, they have continually grown and gone on to bring 4,000 people to a New York boiler room.
Other instalments have seen events at Brooklyn, Mexico City and more, and they have also seen The Dare team up with guest DJs Doss, Danny L Harle, Dylan Brady and Kelly Lee Owens and more.
The Dare has already played shows at Coachella and Primavera Sound this year, and will be continuing his run of summer dates with stops at Sziget, Way Out West, Pukkelpop, Lowlands, Reading & Leeds, Austin City Limits and more.
Find UK tickets here and US tickets here. Check out a list of upcoming shows below.
The Dare’s 2025 live dates are:
AUGUST
1 – Montreal, CA – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
4 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Sziget Festival
8 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West
10 – Buftea, Romania – Summer Well Festival
15 – Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop Festival
16 – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
17 – Ibiza, Spain – Pacha Ibiza
22 – Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
24 – Reading, UK – Reading Festival
OCTOBER
3 – Austin, Texas – Austin City Limits Music Festival
10 – Austin, Texas – Austin City Limits Music Festival
‘What’s Wrong With New York?’ was given a three-star review by NME, with Jordan Bassett writing: “It’s tempting to tell Smith that Murphy wants his shtick back (along with his suit), but the pastiche is often effective, at least.”
“His defiantly dumb breakthrough track ‘Girls’ is one of the best singles of 2006 and ‘Movement’ builds to a crunching, multi-layered cacophony that demonstrates greater musical sophistication than he’s often given credit for,” it added.
“Still, there’s something a little depressing about music that’s this nakedly backwards-facing. Beneath the hedonism, anxiety thrums through ‘What’s Wrong with New York?’ – hence, perhaps, Smith’s dream of his teeth falling out – and he’s clearly captured a wish to return to a time before Covid, before fake news, before bots and pile-ons and information overload. But you’d be better off just listening to LCD.”
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