The iconic Seattle emo band Sunny Day Real Estate will release its first new song in a decade ahead of a U.S. tour scheduled for later this year.
"Novum Vetus" will come out on Friday, Jan. 26. The track will also be included on Diary – Live At London Bridge Studio, an LP due out May 3 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's breakthrough album.
The concerts and an upcoming live EP will both celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's studio debut 'Diary.'
"We thought it would be fun to re-record the full album live in-studio as a better representation of how we play the songs now as we’ve evolved as musicians," Sunny Day Real Estate said in an Instagram post on Jan. 22.
"We couldn’t be happier with the result of how it turned out. Nothing can touch the specialness of our original recording, but this recording in so many ways has its own power and magic that we hope you will enjoy."
The new track was originally composed in 1998 for Sunny Day Real Estate's third LP How It Feels To Be Something On, but didn't make it onto the final version of the album.
It will be the band's first new song since 2014's "Lipton Witch," which came out on a split with Circa Survive.
Diary's 30th anniversary is also the theme of the upcoming tour, which will begin in Lawrence, Kansas, on March 13 and end in Los Angeles on Oct. 18.
The 1994 album released by Sub Pop Records was a landmark in the underground punk scene. It had a massive influence on the second wave of emo and the Midwest emo subgenre.
The LP's tracks "Seven" and "In Circles" are still the band's most popular to this day. Diary came out on May 10, the same day as Weezer's self-titled blue album.
'We couldn’t be happier with the result of how it turned out,' the band said of the LP in a social media post.
Although Sunny Day Real Estate went on to release two more albums, neither had the same impact as Diary. The band had mostly fizzled out by the turn of the century. Their last album The Rising Tide came out in June 2000.
Bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith were also part of the original Foo Fighters lineup. Goldsmith was replaced by the late Taylor Hawkins in 1998. Mendel is still part of the band to this day.
Frontman Jeremy Enigk went on to form a new band called The Fire Theft.
Two Sunny Day Real Estate members went on to join the original lineup of the Foo Fighters.
Check out a full list of the upcoming tour dates below:
Wed March 13 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall
Thu March 14 – Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Music Hall
Sat March 16 – Austin, TX – SPIN at Stubb’s
Wed May 01 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
Fri May 03 – Gainesville, FL – High Dive
Sat May 04 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Music Festival
Tue May 07 – Washington, DC – The Howard Theatre
Thu May 09 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
Sun May 12 – Boston, MA – Big Night Live
Wed May 15 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
Wed Aug 14 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
Sat Aug 17 – Denver, CO – Summit
Tue Aug 20 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
Wed Aug 21 – Portland, OR – Pioneer Square (PDX Live Series)
Fri Aug 23 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
Wed Sep 25 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Sat Sep 28 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
Tue Oct 15 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
Fri Oct 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco
