Jeremy Loops Has Just Announced An Australian Tour + Album

Modern Folk artist from Cape Town Jeremy Loops has announced he will be returning to Australia for the first time since 2016 with his new album, ‘Critical as Water’ which is scheduled for release on 16 March 2018.

‘Critical as Water’ is the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut – which won MTV Africa’s Alternative Album of the Year, and iTunes South Africa’s Album of the Year – is produced by Will Hicks (Ed Sheeran’s ‘Perfect’, Lilly Allen, Bastille), with additional production contributions by Jake Gosling (James Bay, The Libertines, Shawn Mendes).

‘Critical as Water’ is led by the single Waves, a woozy summer anthem that’s garnered over 1 million streams since its recent release. Waves quickly ascended Spotify’s Viral Chart internationally, and made key playlists like Spotify’s Weekly Buzz and Left of Centre playlists. Acclaimed filmmaker Casey Neistat described it as having an ‘incredible music video’, with its visuals filmed in Mozambique where Jeremy is seen surfing crystal clear blue waters alongside whales in a tropical paradise.

More urgent still is the real water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa, Jeremy’s home town. On course to be the first major city in the world to run out of water, taps to homes will be turned off on 22 April 2018, in an environmental crisis that sees the devastating effects of political mismanagement, unsustainable consumption, and rapidly changing climates coming to a heed. And so when these themes come up on songs like Flash Floods and a hauntingly beautiful ballad called Vultures, a more terrifying or apt backdrop to the album’s release cannot be conceived.

Speaking on the music’s themes, Jeremy explains how the restorative power of water fueled the album:

‘I grew frustrated trying to force the music because I knew the album was due, but one night after an incredible surf, I got home, picked up my guitar, and wrote Waves. Coincidence or not, I became deliberate about scheduling time in the ocean as a means to writing the album and the songs just kept coming’ explains Loops. He concludes, saying that ‘it isn’t all doom and gloom. If anything, this is the most beautiful piece of music I’ve ever made and it’s warm and lush, but the joyful highs are tempered by the real urgency of the problems the world is facing. Times are always changing. We all have the innate ability to flow like water to adapt to it. I like that about life, and I especially like how that comes across on this album. It feels wonderfully rounded.’

Jeremy Loops will be making his way to Australia this May, taking in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney from the 22nd of May to the 27th.