WATCH: Nightlands' Mini-Homage To The Pinball Machine At Loco Pez

Human Hearts

A post shared by Dave Hartley (@nightlands) on Mar 24, 2017 at 4:04pm PDT

Dave Hartley wears a lot of hats — bassist for The War on Drugs, sought-after session dude and of course, CEO of the dreamy science-pop project Nightlands — but to those who know him best, he is perhaps above all an increasingly noted pinball aficionado. When he’s not traveling the world in search of perfect pin (usually using apps like this one, basically Grindr for pinball machines), he’s perched at Fishtown’s Loco Pez, at the lone pinball machine in the back, which has alternately been a Ghostbusters one, or a Family Guy one, and so on. And in this teaser vid for his for “Human Hearts,” from the forthcoming Nightlands LP I Can Feel The Night Around Me, Hartley bares what one imagines to be both his heart and his daily pinball commute. Like “Lost Moon,” the other leaked track from I Can Feel…, “Human Hearts” traffics in a sweetly, melancholy kinda space doo-wop/Lover’s Lane type of vibe — perhaps appropriately bittersweet for Loco Pez, who’ve seen better days.

I Can Feel The Night Around Me is out on May 5th, with the attendant Nightlands tour hitting Johnny Brenda’s on May 27th. Check out "Lost Moon" here:

From the album I Can Feel The Night Around Me out May 5, 2017 on Western Vinyl PRE-ORDER Bandcamp: https://nightlands.bandcamp.com/ iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/4472hz Amazon: http://a.co/amgg5Cl WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv158 NIGHTLANDS Twitter https://twitter.com/nightlands Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nightlands/?hl=en Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Nightlands/ TOUR DATES Mon. May 8 – Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret Tue. May 9 – Seattle, WA @ The Sunset Wed. May 10 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Fri. May 12 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill Sat. May 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo Fri. May 19 – Washington, DC @ DC9 Sat. May 20 – New York, NY @ Rough Trade Mon. May 22 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott Wed. May 24 – Toronto, ON @ Garrison Thu. May 25 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Fri. May 26 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Spring Sound Series @ The Warhol Sat. May 27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas Nightlands, the project of Philadelphia-based Dave Hartley (best known as a core member and longtime bassist of The War On Drugs), will release his third album, I Can Feel the Night Around Me, on May 5th. Immediately following, he and his band will head out on a North American tour. Continuing the tradition of previous Nightlands releases Forget the Mantra (2010) and Oak Island (2013), I Can Feel the Night Around Me showcases Hartley's ability to layer his voice and conjure some of the most beautiful virtual choirs in modern music.