Lavender Diamond announce first album in 8 years 'Now Is The Time'

Los Angeles art-pop group Lavender Diamond will unveil their first studio album in eight years.

Announced today, the album is titled Now Is The Time, and it’ll be released on December 4 via Petaluma Records. The first single from the album titled “This Is How We Rise” can be heard below, and it’s available on all streaming services. Vocalist Becky Stack said this about the new album:

"Right before our current storm of catastrophe these songs came pouring in to us. These songs of healing for a world in crisis. Crisis holds profound opportunity for healing and transformation. Now is the most powerful time we have ever known to transform our world and to build justice peace and prosperity for all by living in harmony and with love for the earth, embodying the wisdom of equality and respect for all.

I came to this realization that there’s medicine in the music itself. It can lift people up and heal them and point them toward transformation, and that led me to this tremendously powerful need to start writing and recording again.”

Now Is The Time, which also features the previously released single “Look Through The Window,” is the long-awaited follow up to the band’s 2012 studio album Incorruptible Heart.

Now Is The Time tracklisting

1) Look Through The Window 

2) This Is How We Rise

3) Ocean and Ground

4) In The Garden

5) Flashback 

6) Now Is The Time 

7) In The Middle

8) New Religion 

9) Straight Through The Night

10) Please Plant The Seeds 

11) Calling On My Nation

Lavender Diamond added to Bright Eyes' West Coast tour dates

Today, Lavender Diamond revealed they’re joining Bright Eyes on the West Coast portion of their forthcoming spring North American tour. "We are so delighted and honored to be a part of the first Bright Eyes tour in 9 years. The music of Bright Eyes is essential magic for so many people. We feel it is an incredible blessing that we are able to join forces to magnify love on this tour,” Lavender Diamond vocalist Becky Stark said in a statement.

Lavender Diamond are currently working on the follow up to their 2012 studio album Incorruptible Heart. The forthcoming release will be out on Petaluma Records. You can check out their forthcoming tour dates below.

Lavender Diamond tour dates

5/14: Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory (w/ Bright Eyes)

5/15: Boise, ID - Knitting Factory (w/ Bright Eyes)

5/16: Tacoma, WA - Temple (w/ Bright Eyes)

5/17: Sonoma, CA - Gundelach Bundschu (w/ Bright Eyes)

5/19: Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst (w/ Bright Eyes)

5/21: Los Angeles, CA - Palladium (w/ Bright Eyes) (sold out)