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SWIMMING POOL SUMMER,
THE NEW EP FROM CAPITAL CITIES,
IS OUT TODAY
View Lyric Video For “Girl Friday” Featuring Rick Ross
On Vevo Now
Summer Festival Performances Include Lollapalooza, Life Is Beautiful, Billboard Hot 100 And Forecastle
“Girl Friday” Lyric Video:
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Capital Cities celebrate summertime romance with their new EP, Swimming Pool Summer, released today by Lazy Hooks/Capitol Records and available HERE. See below for track listing. “Girl Friday” is one of four new original songs included on the EP. Rick Ross is featured on the track, which tells the story of a guy who can’t get a weekend date with his busy dream girl.The lyric video for “Girl Friday” can now be seen on Vevo HERE.
The L.A.-based band first unveiled that aesthetic with the breakout hit “Safe and Sound,” which went multi-Platinum around the world, topped Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart and entered the Top 10 of the Hot 100. It has sold more than 12 million adjusted tracks globally. The “Safe and Sound” video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for a GRAMMY®. Cumulative streams of Capital Cities’ songs now surpass one billion while video views exceed 420 million globally. The band’s 2013 debut album, In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery, has sold 1.7 million adjusted albums worldwide.
L-R: Capital Cities’ Sebu Simonian and Ryan Merchant Photo Credit: Piper Ferguson
Capital Cities will bring their dazzling show to stages across the U.S. this summer, playing such festivals as Lollapalooza, Life is Beautiful, Billboard Hot 100 and Forecastle. See below for itinerary. Founded and fronted by Sebu Simonian and Ryan Merchant, the bandoffers a bright and groove-heavy take on alt-pop, drawing their infectious energy from the endless juxtapositions within each song: genre-bending production meets indelible melody, high-concept artistry meets classic pop sensibility, clever lyricism meets raw emotion.
The L.A.-based band first unveiled that aesthetic with the breakout hit “Safe and Sound,” which went multi-Platinum around the world, topped Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart and entered the Top 10 of the Hot 100. It has sold more than 12 million adjusted tracks globally. The “Safe and Sound” video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for a GRAMMY®. Cumulative streams of Capital Cities’ songs now surpass one billion while video views exceed 420 million globally. The band’s 2013 debut album, In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery, has sold 1.7 million adjusted albums worldwide.
Track Listing – Swimming Pool Summer
1. Swimming Pool Summer
2. Drop Everything
3. Girl Friday ft. Rick Ross
4. Drifting
5. Swimming Pool Summer (THCSRS remix)
Capital Cities – North American Tour Dates
7/14 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
8/3 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
8/18 – Kansas City, MO @ Kansas City Power & Light District
8/19-20 – Long Island, NY @ Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival
8/26 – Denver, CO @ National Western Complex
9/22 – Las Vegas, NV @ Life is Beautiful Festival
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