L.S. DUNES
RELEASES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SOPHOMORE ALBUM
VIOLET OUT NOW VIA FANTASY RECORDS
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“Violet is the latest remarkable brainchild of these incredible artists collaborating and creating music together.” – Heavy Magazine
“Violet is not only a beautiful album, but also a true testament to the band’s growth since their debut, setting the bar high for future releases.” – The AU Review, 4.5/5
“A combination of chaos and calm in the best way, they’re honing in on their past glories and devising dreamy new melodies and killer riffs…the future of emo is in great hands.” – PitPass.com.au, 8/10
“It’s not a supergroup just trying to be a supergroup, they’re a band writing music that’s suited to all of their individual skill levels…and it just happens to be that they all have crazy high skill levels. They’re all extremely, extremely talented dudes.” – The Break Down With Nath & Johnny
Rock band L.S. Dunes has released their highly anticipated sophomore album Violet, out now via Fantasy Records. Featuring recent singles Violet, Paper Tigers, Machines, and Fatal Deluxe, the new album sees L.S. Dunes embracing the magic in everyday life. Fans can purchase or stream the album now here, and watch the band’s new music video Forgiveness.
“The process of writing and recording this record took me someplace I’ve never been and showed me things I’ve never seen,” recalls front man Anthony Green. “There was a point where I was dead set on telling the story, but during the process of collaborating I started to realize that ‘Violet’ had taken all of us someplace different and showed us all different things and started to see something bigger than just my experience.”
He continues: “I will say that this record might be here to reflect back on whatever it is you go looking for in music because music is magic and magic is real. Music is magic.”
On the band’s new single Forgiveness, Travis Stever shares: “This is a song that lived in all of us for years. We had it in us way before we even knew each other. We could only bring it to life together. Each individual brings a certain element and strength to the song that gives it its wings.”
“Late one night while working on the preproduction for Past Lives Travis started finger picking these chords and it hit me like a ton of bricks, I immediately heard the whole (instrumental) song in my head,” adds Frank Iero. “We worked out most of the arrangement and instrumentation in demo form and I just knew it had the potential to be something really special. But we were brand new at working together at that point and we had a lot of songs that were coming together right before recording… and honestly, looking back I don’t think this song would have fit on Past Lives, so I’m really glad it sat and waited for us. I think it might be one of most beautiful songs I have had a hand in creating, and it really rides that line of fragility meets power that I adore.”
Following a successful US tour, L.S. Dunes will be back on the road supporting Rise Against this February in the UK and EU.
Afterwards the band will embark on their newly announced month-long North American headline tour. The tour kicks off on April 8th, featuring From Indian Lakes, as well as Derek Zanetti, Night Sins, and Plague Vendor on select dates.
VIOLET – OUT NOW

VIOLET TRACK LISTING:
01. Like Magick
02. Fatal Deluxe
03. I Can See It Now…
04. Violet
05. Machines
06. You Deserve To Be Haunted
07. Holograms
08. Paper Tigers
09. Things I Thought Would Last Forever
10. Forgiveness

“I became so sick of playing the song where I sing, ‘Sorry that I wish that I was dead,’ and I am so sorry I even wrote that song,” he says of Sleep Cult, the closing track on their debut. “I’m grateful that people resonate with it, but it just wasn’t helpful for me to sing that every night or to talk about that. So this time, I personally decided that I really wanted to make a record that says there is magic in the world. I wanted to celebrate music and the transformative power that it has to connect and inspire people. I wanted to make something that was in complete opposition to that song—something that says, I want to live.”
By any measure, Violet—once again helmed by Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip—lives up to that promise, and in many ways, it opens up an opportunity to rediscover L.S. Dunes in a different light. Where Past Lives takes its oxygen from the thrill of frenzy and impulsiveness, Violet breathes deeper with a more open and expansive palette. Whether it lives in the confident and steady pulse of a song like Machines, in the rousing lyrical empowerment of Paper Tigers, or in the way that Forgiveness forges itself as an anthem for love and unconditional acceptance in the face of our personal failures, this is a body of work that secures multiple outcomes: There is hindsight. There is hope. There is, in fact, magic.
Perhaps no greater evidence of this exists but in the album’s name. Violet. A word that entered Iero’s subconscious while mumbling scratch lyrics to a new song he was writing, a word that became the working title for that song, and a word that survived demo after demo until it finally became the name of the album—despite not appearing anywhere in the final lyrics of the title track. “It just happened,” Iero insists. It appeared out of nowhere.
That’s the thing about magic: You need to suspend disbelief. You need to surrender to it. You need to stop asking for an explanation and simply embrace it when it comes.
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