Dawes Signs With Rounder Records, Announces New Album

Dawes has signed a recording deal with Rounder Records, and will release its seventh studio LP, Good Luck With Whatever, on Friday, Oct. 2.

Produced by Dave Cobb at Nashville’s RCA Studio A, the album is heralded by the premiere of the single “Who Do You Think You’re Talking To?,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. The high-spirited track is also bolstered by an official companion video, streaming now at the official Dawes YouTube channel.

The new LP sees Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith grappling with the expectations of adulthood on a cycle of new tracks fueled by many of the same elements that initially earned the band worldwide attention.

“In the past, I’ve definitely been more precious about the way I wanted the songs to sound, but that’s never as fun,” Taylor Goldsmith says. “The music we make is everyone’s mode of expression, and the other guys all have chops that I don’t have and never will. The fact that we’re able to lean on each other and celebrate each other as individuals just makes us so much more excited about getting to play together in this band.”

Dawes also recently unveiled Live From Richmond, VA, an 11-track concert recording available exclusively as a digital download via Bandcamp that benefits Reform LA Jails and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles.