The Dan Boeckner-led band Operators have announced a new album due out this May titled Radiant Dawn. The record follows their 2016 debut Blue Wave.
Operators is comprised of Boeckner, single-named keyboardist Devojka, and drummer Sam Brown (who also joins Boeckner in Divine Fits). Today they've shared the lead single “Faithless,” a propulsive synth-filled head bobber that comes with a visualizer of waterfalls with pyramids and the word “HEBEPHA” overlaid atop. It seems there may be some sort of conspiracy-based concept behind the record, based on the trailer shared today.
Never one to sit on his laurels, Boeckner has kept incredibly busy since the last Operators record., He released Wolf Parade’s fourth studio album Cry Cry Cry in 2017 and played a series of sold-out shows in which Operators performed songs from the catalog of his now-defunct project with ex-wife Alexei Perry Cox, Handsome Furs. Operators have also announced a tour behind the new record, with a show in Seattle on Sunday, June 9 at Neumos.
Below, listen to “Faithless,” check out the trailer for Radiant Dawn, and watch Operators’ performance for KEXP at Iceland Airwaves in 2015.
KEXP has a special love for Operators in the live setting. Sure, synth-heavy brainchild of Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits) would fit on KEXP's airwaves regardless, but we have history together. Three days after the band announced it existed, they played on KEXP and later in t…
"I felt a blue wave coming on." If there were any way to sum up the trying events that led up to the amalgamation of Dan Boeckner's latest project Operators, the album's title track does it pretty well. Dan Boeckner, responsible for Wolf Parade (alongside Spencer Krug) and Handsome Furs (alongside …
Next on KEXP live from Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival was the first non-Icelandic band of this year's broadcast. Operators is the new synth-pop project from Canadian musician Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade/Divine Fits/Handsome Furs). A ray of sun after the bright but melancholy cloud of D…
