WHITE LIES have released new clip and announced North American headline tour.

New music video for the song Morning in LA, taken from the band’s fourth studio album Friends, lands alongside the announcement that they will be returning to the USA next year. North American headline tour includes a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in New York on Feb 2nd and El Ray Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb 15th.

Charles Cave says of the track and video:

For the last decade it seems every new film released is a remake, and it’s a topic that already sparks debate. We had been wanting to do a performance style video for a while and the Killing Joke video from which ours respectfully steals is an absolute classic of the genre. When White Lies started, we received a fair amount of ‘gothic’ adjectives describing our music – something we always found quite funny. For ‘Morning in LA’, arguably our jolliest song yet, we thought the tongue-in-cheek gothic feel of the video was an appropriate aesthetic to go with.

‘Morning in LA’ is a love song to friends, and a hate-song to time zones, I suppose. It’s about trying to maintain contact with the people you care most about when your time zones don’t match up. Funnily enough, this is nothing to do with being on tour, but comes from the flip-side when we as a band were based in London for a year for the first time in a decade, and many of our friends had moved to America or Asia. It was illuminating how the differing time zones are as annoying as the physical distance between you both.

As for the UK, White Lies are about to embark on an extensive tour starting next week.

November

22 – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

24 – Nottingham, Rock City

25 – Manchester, Albert Hall

26 – Liverpool, Arts Club

27 – Glasgow, O2 ABC

29 – Birmingham, O2 Institute

30 – Leeds, Stylus

December

01  – Bristol, O2 Academy