Sunny Day Real Estate return with new single and announce 30th anniversary tour
nme.comSunny Day Real Estate have returned with their first new single in 10 years, ‘Novum Vetus’, and announced a run of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their seminal album ‘Diary’.The emo legends, who announced their reunion in 2022, had been teasing the song earlier this week by sharing a minute-long snippet to Instagram.
The sound soundtracks a video of an artist drawing the phrase “novum vetus”, (Latin for “everything old is new again”) and then sketching out a boat at sea, over which frontman Jeremy Enigk was heard singing: “The day we died inside, the world was suffering / 10,000 words collide but no one said a thing / the day we died inside the walls come tumbling down.”Although ‘Novum Vetus’ is only just seeing the light of day, it was first conceived when Sunny Day Real Estate were recording 1998’s ‘How It Feels to Be Something On’.
Original members Enigk, Dan Hoerner, and William Goldsmith decided to bring the song into Seattle’s renowned London Bridge Studio and fleshed it out into its current seven-minute iteration with Greg Suran and Chris Jordan.Check out ‘Novum Vetus’ below:The band have also announced a 30th anniversary tour for 1994’s ‘Diary’.
The tour kicks off on March 13 in Lawrence, Kansas, and also includes stops in Austin, Raleigh, Atlanta, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City.
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