Turkuaz is gearing up for a busy end to 2018. Yesterday, the Brooklyn-based band announced a brand-new album, Life In The City, which is due out on September 28th. The group will also be running a very special Willy Wonka-inspired promotion for fans who pre-order the album, with fans who receive a gold cartridge in their order gaining access to free Turkuaz shows for life. Keeping the announcements rolling, today, the funk-fueled nine-piece has detailed a fall tour supporting the new studio effort, which will span from October to New Year’s Eve.

Due out on September 28th, Life In The City will mark Turkuaz’s fifth album, following up 2015’s Digitonium. In addition, yesterday, the group dropped a retro, video game-inspired animated music video for the album’s title track, “Life In The City”, which was premiered via Magnetic Magazine. Notably, one of the album’s nine tracks, “If I Ever Fall Asleep”, was produced by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison and engineered by ET Thorngren

As Dave Brandwein explained to Magnetic Magazine in the outlet’s video premiere article,

For this album, we spent time sorting through lots of material and different ideas. We recorded much more than we ended up using, and across a few different studios over a couple of years. There was also way more collaborative writing occurring in varying ways compared to past records. Looking back now, although the process it was made was varied and took longer it feels really cohesive. I think it ended up as a theme album in its’ own way and that feels evident now listening to it in its finished state. 

“Life In The City”

 

[Video: Turkuaz]

With Life In The City due out in about a month, the group has announced a special promotion to encourage fans to preorder the album. From now until August 28th at 5 p.m. (PT), Turkuaz will offer a special pre-order bundle that includes “the LP with a limited edition Rainbow Marble Swirl colored vinyl, album t-shirt, and a digital version of the album on a USB, gift boxed in a limited edition Life In The City Nintendo Cartridge,” with the Nintendo cartridges available in an assortment of vibrant, Turkuaz-themed colors. Taking a page out of Willy Wonka’s playbook, the band will insert one gold cartridge into the pre-order bundles, with the lucky fan who receives the cartridge gaining “FREE Turkuaz tickets for LIFE!” You can pre-order the album bundle here.

Furthermore, today, the band has announced their fall tour, appropriately named the Life In The City Tour. Across the three-month tour, Turkuaz will be joined by Butcher Brown, Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, Lettuce, Dynamo, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Rubblebucket, and Too Many Zooz at various stops. The Life In The City Tour kicks off with a three-night run across New York from October 4th through 6th, followed up by shows in Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. On October 17th, the band returns to the Northeast, rolling through Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York—including a performance at The Capitol Theatre, the legendary venue in Port Chester on October 19th—before heading back south on October 24th with a show in Greenville, South Carolina.

Working their way to the fan-favorite festival, Suwannee Hulaween, on October 28th, the band will detour through Covington, Kentucky on October 26th. On Halloween proper, the band will perform a show in Asheville, North Carolina, followed up by a stop in Greenville, North Carolina, on November 1st. After shows in Philly and DC on the 2nd and 3rd, the group heads to the Midwest, routing through Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Grand Rapids from November 8th through 11th. Up next is a run across Omaha, Madison, Minneapolis, and Chicago from November 14th to 17th to close the main leg of the tour ahead of the band’s New Year’s Eve run, which will see the band ringing in 2019 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A special fan pre-sale begins on Wednesday, August 22nd, at 10 a.m. (local). Following the pre-sale, tickets for the general public will go on sale on Friday, August 24th, at 10 a.m. (local). For more information about the new album or Turkuaz’s upcoming tour dates, head to the band’s website here.