Touché Amoré tap Wisp & members of Deafheaven, Blood Brothers & Youth Code for ‘Stage Four’ deluxe

Touché Amoré recently announced that they’d be playing their beloved 2016 album Stage Four in full on a 10th anniversary tour this year, and now they announced a deluxe reissue of the album. It features previously unreleased demos; remixes of Stage Four songs by Deafheaven’s Kerry McCoy, The Blood Brothers’ Cody Votolato, and Youth Code (aka the industrial project of Ryan George and Sara Taylor, the former being the vocalist of the newly-reunited hardcore band Carry On); and a re-imagined version of “Rapture” that features rising shoegaze artist Wisp.

The “Gloom Version” of “Rapture” with Wisp is out now, and it finds Touché turning the song into a tender ballad with acoustic guitar, pedal steel, and clean harmony vocals from Jeremy Bolm and Wisp. Jeremy says:

“Rapture” is a staple in our set and has been since the album dropped. Over time, the call and response bit that happens during the bridge has become as much of our show as anything else. I wanted to get Wisp on this track because I’m a big fan of Natalie’s vocal ability for its whispery, breathy nature. It has a haunting element that matched the energy of the song.

Stage Four was a mandatory album for my journey with grief, and the impact it’s had on the band as well as our audience – however heavy or light – feels worth celebrating.

Check out the new track below.

Touché also recently added openers to their tour, including a few particularly epic one-off bills. They’ll be joined by Jeromes Dream and Porcelain in Austin; Gouge Away, Reversal of Man, and Zeta in Orlando; Glassjaw, Saetia, Incendiary, and Crushed in LA; and One Step Closer and Greet Death in Chicago, Toronto, Philly, DC and NYC. The NYC show is at Brooklyn Monarch on April 19. All dates are listed below.

Stage Four 10 Year Anniversary Edition Tracklisting
1.Flowers and You
2. New Halloween
3. Rapture
4. Displacement
5. Benediction
6. Eight Seconds
7. Palm Dreams
8. Softer Spoken
9. Posing Holy
10. Water Damage
11. Skyscraper
12. Flowers and You (Demo)
13. New Halloween (Demo)
14. Rapture (Gloom Version) feat Wisp
15. Displacement (Alternate Demo)
16. Benediction (Remix) Cody Votolato
17. Eight Seconds (Live From the Venue Formerly Known As Eight Seconds At The Fest 2024)
18. Palm Dreams (Remix) Youth Code
19. Softer Spoken (Demo)
20. Posing Holy (Demo)
21. Water Damage (Demo)
22. Skyscraper (Remix) Kerry McCoy

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Touché Amoré — Stage Four 10th Anniversary Tour
Apr 8 – Austin, TX – Mohawk Austin
Apr 10 – Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall
Apr 12 – Toronto, CA – The Opera House
Apr 17 – Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
Apr 18 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
Apr 19 – Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Monarch
May 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
Jun 3-7 – Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound *
Jun 8 – Lyon, FR – Le Marché Gare
Jun 9 – Milan, IT – Magazzini Generali
Jun 11-13 – Interlaken, CH – Greenfield Festival *
Jun 12 – Köln, DE – Die Kantine
Jun 13 – Berlin, DE – Berlin Breakout! *
Jun 14 – Hamburg, DE – Fabrik
Jun 16 – Vienna, AT – Flex
Jun 17 – Prague, CZ – Lucerna Music Bar
Jun 18-19 – Warsaw, PL – Summer Punch Festival *
Jun 21 – München, DE – Backstage
Jun 22 – Wiesbaden, DE – Schlachthof Wiesbaden
Jun 23 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
Jun 24 – London, UK – OVO Arena Wembley
Jun 26 – Paris, FR – Mia Mao
Jun 27-28 – Stretford, UK – Outbreak Festival *
Sept 9 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
Sept 12 – Sao Paulo, BR – Sine Joia

*Festival play