Fountains Of Wayne’s long-awaited new album, Sky Full Of Holes, will be released by Lojinx in Europe on the 1st of August 2011. This is the acclaimed band’s first new release since 2007's Traffic And Weather.

Recorded in New York City, Sky Full Of Holes features 13 new songs by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, ranging from high-energy power pop to intimate, acoustic-driven ballads. Songs like "The Summer Place” and “Richie And Ruben” showcase the band’s renowned storytelling abilities and flair for creating memorable characters; elsewhere, they take a more impressionistic approach, as in the shimmering “Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart” and the elegiac “Cemetery Guns” (a lyric from which provides the album’s title). In signature FOW fashion, the album manages to be simultaneously witty and wistful, imaginative and personal.

Formed in New York in 1996, Fountains Of Wayne took their name from an iconic garden store in nearby Wayne, NJ (which, sadly, closed recently). The group's line-up includes guitarist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young and has remained unchanged since they toured in support of their self-titled 1996 debut album. Fountains Of Wayne were nominated for two Grammys, including a somewhat belated Best New Artist nod, in 2003, after scoring a hit with their third album, Welcome Interstate Managers.

Sky Full Of Holes is the band’s fifth full-length release (not including 2005′s two-disc B-side compilation Out-Of-State Plates) and was produced by Collingwood and Schlesinger. It was mixed by longtime collaborator John Holbrook, who also worked on Welcome Interstate Managers and Traffic And Weather.

The album tracklist is:

1. The Summer Place
2. Richie And Ruben
3. Acela
4. Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart
5. Action Hero
6. A Dip In The Ocean
7. Cold Comfort Flowers
8. A Road Song
9. Workingman's Hands
10. Hate To See You Like This
11. Radio Bar
12. Firelight Waltz
13. Cemetery Guns 

Sky Full Of Holes will be released on Lojinx in Europe on the 1st of August 2011. The album will be released by Yep Roc in North America and by Warner in Japan.

Sky Full Of Holes is now available on strictly Limited Edition Gatefold Heavyweight Vinyl LP!! LJX029V12

• A Road Song
• Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart
• The Summer Place
• Richie and Ruben (Live on Jimmy Fallon)
• A Dip In The Ocean (Live on Letterman)

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