It’s kind of miraculous at this late date, but somehow Tanlines are finding ways to make album rollouts fun. First they turned their website into a funny Netflix parody, and this Wednesday they’re streaming their new album Highlights via conference call. The news arrived from their publicist in the form of one of those Google Calendar event invites that always make me cringe. Usually I’d feel like a shill for copying and pasting an entire press release, but in this instance I’d feel like I wasn’t doing them justice unless I shared the whole thing:

BROOKLYN, New York, May 5, 2015 /Press Here Publicity/ — Tanlines Enterprises, Inc. (the “Band”) today announce that it will stream their upcoming album, “Highlights,” via teleconference in anticipation of the album’s May 19th global release date on True Panther Sounds.

The Band and their representatives will host a conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (11:00 a.m. Pacific Time) on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. The call can be accessed by dialing (605) 562-3140 and inputting access code 874405. Participants dialing in internationally can find a list of country specific numbers below.

Interested parties who are unable to make the call can attend any one of the twenty-five (25) in-person meet-ups (listed below) that the Band will be holding across the U.S. throughout the Spring and Summer of 2015.

Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made on this conference call may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of common music-industry parlance. Forward-looking statements are based on the Band members’ and their Guests’ expectations, beliefs, estimates and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from what is forecast in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors. The Band disclaims and does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement made on this conference call.

About Tanlines Enterprises, Inc.
Tanlines – singer/guitarist Eric Emm and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Cohen – will release their sophomore album, Highlights, on May 19th, 2015. Produced by the band and Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, Highlights began in a basement in Pittsburgh and ended in a church in Brooklyn. It trades world music sounds (as heard through YouTube) for a more alive, realized approach, the result of Emm and Cohen wanting to break from their ‘two guys, one screen’ writing style. Influenced by their time spent on the road touring Mixed Emotions, primarily in the States, they reached for the sounds of 90’s New York hip-hop drums, Detroit techno synths, and lots and lots of guitars. The results of which would lead them to call this their ‘American album’, “though it may only sound that way to us,” says Emm. Whereas before the band had wandered their way through foreign musical landscapes and the existential ‘what am I doing with my life’ wasteland of post-youth, Highlights finds the band settled and at home, comfortable in their own skin.

In-Person Meetings:

05/13 Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
05/14 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
05/18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex
05/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba Records
06/26 Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls
06/27 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
06/28 Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
06/30 Covington, KY @ Madison Live
07/01 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
07/02 Lincoln, NE @ Vega
07/03 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
07/05 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
07/07 Vancouver, BC @ Electric Owl
07/08 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
07/09 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
07/14 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
07/15 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
07/17 Austin, TX @ Red 7
07/18 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
07/19 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
07/21 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
07/22 Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight
07/23 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
07/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Voyeur
07/25 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair

INTERNATIONAL DIAL-IN NUMBERS:

Argentina +54 (0) 11 5235-4340
Australia +61 (0) 3 8672 0105
Belgium +32 (0) 4 244 10 83
Brazil +55 21 2391-6538
Chile +56 (0) 44 890 9164
China +86 (0) 510 6801 0120
Costa Rica +506 4000 3889
Croatia +385 (0) 1 8000 053
Cyprus +357 77 788855
Denmark +45 78 77 21 83
Dominican Republic (829) 999-2540
Estonia +372 614 8065
France +33 (0) 1 80 14 00 06
Georgia +995 (0) 706 777 065
Germany +49 (0) 69 1200650760
Hungary +36 1 987 6803
Indonesia +62 (0) 21 51388880
Israel +972 (0) 76-599-0022
Italy +39 011 092 0917
Japan +81 (0) 3-5050-5071
Kenya +254 (0) 20 5231048
Latvia +371 67 881 541
Lithuania +370 (8) 46 268615
Luxembourg +352 20 30 10 07
Malaysia +60 (0) 11-1146 0033
Mexico +52 (01) 899 274 9983
Netherlands +31 (0) 6 35205032
Nigeria +234 (0) 1 440 5235
Norway +47 21 93 06 45
Pakistan +92 (0) 21 37130620
Panama +507 838-7850
Poland +48 32 739 96 35
Portugal +351 21 005 1186
Slovakia +421 2 336 633 06
South Africa +27 (0) 87 825 0106
South Korea 1600-8556
Spain +34 911 33 84 80
Sri Lanka +94 (0) 11 5 322966
Sweden +46 (0) 8 124 107 12
Switzerland +41 (0) 44 513 30 30
Taiwan +886 (0) 985 646 925
Turkey +90 (0) 212 988 1740
Ukraine +380 (0) 89 323 9965
United Kingdom +44 (0) 330 606 0515
Vietnam +84 (0) 4 7108 0099

Highlights is out 5/19 on True Panther.