WE THE KINGS
Celebrates Six
Charting Success
#18 Current Pop Albums
#13 Current Alternative Albums
#21 Current Digital Albums
#23 Digital Albums
Available for Purchase Here
Streaming on Spotify
“The record fans have been waiting for — literally and figuratively.” – Billboard
“With themes such as life, death and marriage, Six stands
as the bands’ 11-track memoir.” – Alternative Press
“It’s proof that We The Kings can keep experimenting because their music
is built on such a solid foundation of songwriting craftsmanship.” – Newsday
Rock band We The Kings is celebrating an incredibly successful first week after the release of their new album, Six, available now via S-Curve Records/BMG. The band’s 6th full-length album, Six secured the #18 spot on the Current Pop Albums Chart, as well as #13 Digital Albums, #21 Current Digital Albums, and #23 Digital Albums, among others. It has been heralded by Billboard, Alternative Press, Rock Sound, and can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music, or purchased online here.
We The Kings previously released singles “On My Love“ and “Even If It Kills Me.” With adds to top Spotify playlists like New Punk Tracks, Punk’s Not Dead, and New Noise, these singles have seen great successes on streaming services.
When naming their new album, We The Kings set out to check a few boxes. Not only does Six represent the Florida-based band’s sixth full-length album (all of which, from their 2007 Self-Titled through 2015’s Strange Love, begin with the letter S), but it also pays tribute to the quintet’s honorary sixth member: their fans.
As such, the artwork of Six literally features a piece of their fans, a mosaic of those who helped crowdfund the album. It’s a testament to an audience who have rallied behind We The Kings for their entire career-to the tune of more than 250 million Spotify streams and platinum-selling success.
“There’s a pride that fans have about their favorite bands that I think is so special,” frontman Travis Clark says. “These fans have been supporting us for more than a decade. When we’re writing songs, we don’t want to let anyone down.”
Indeed, We The Kings’ storied career has been marked by a deep reciprocity between the band and their fans. When the group–Clark, Hunter Thomsen (guitar), Danny Duncan (drums), Charles Trippy (bass) and Coley O’Toole (keyboard, guitar)-broke out of Bradenton, Florida in 2007 with “Check Yes Juliet,” one of the most iconic songs of the late ’00s pop-punk movement, millions of listeners around the world instantly fell in love with their buoyant spirit and emotionally poignant songwriting.
Follow-up singles like “Heaven Can Wait,” “We’ll Be A Dream,” “Say You Like Me” and “Sad Song” kept We The Kings squarely in the mainstream, but as they readied Six, the band dug deep into the past to find inspiration from their earliest days. Their 10-year anniversary tour for Self-Titled sold out venues around the world in 2017, and it gave We The Kings a renewed sense of energy as they prepped new music.
Indeed, there are plenty of throwback moments on Six, but maybe not in the way fans would expect. Rather than retread where they came from, the band’s nods to their past are more nuanced, finely filtered through a modern lens that affords them the freedom to expand their sound in all directions and continually redefine just what a We The Kings song should sound like.
At its core, Six‘s true triumph is its emotional heft. So much has changed for We The Kings since Strange Love--marriage, childbirth, death–and the album’s 11 songs are a tribute to life’s moments, both big and small, and how you never know which is which until much later down the line.
Six is the 6th studio album from We The Kings, and is available now at smarturl.it/WeTheKingsSIX.
For more information, please visit:
Website: www.wethekingsmusic.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wethekings
Twitter: www.twitter.com/wethekings
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wethekings
Six Tracklisting:
1. On My Love
2. The Ocean and the Sun
3. Even If It Kills Me
4. Mama Knows Best
5. Ride
6. Alive
7. I Won’t Settle
8. Festival Music
9. Planes, Trains, and Cars
10. Immortal
11. What I Wouldn’t Give
Upcoming Tour Dates on Vans Warped Tour:
7.17 TORONTO, ON
7.18 CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH
7.19 CINCINNATI, OH
7.20 DETROIT, MI
7.21 CHICAGO, IL
7.22 MINNEAPOLIS, MN
7.23 MILWAUKEE, WI
7.24 INDIANAPOLIS, IN
7.25 DARIEN CENTER, NY
7.26 SCRANTON, PA
7.27 MANSFIELD, MA
7.28 WANTAGH, NY
7.29 COLUMBIA, MD
7.30 CHARLOTTE, NC
7.31 ATLANTA, GA
8.02 JACKSONVILLE, FL
8.03 ORLANDO, FL
8.04 TAMPA, FL
8.05 WEST PALM BEACH, FL