Nearly three years since the release of their highest-charting album (2015’s No Closer To Heaven) THE WONDER YEARS return with SISTER CITIES, their forthcoming LP and most transformative work to date.

 
 

SISTER CITIES is an album about distance, connectivity and the way humanity towers above its boundaries. “It is an album about how all of our distance might not be so wide after all and it was written with the world on fire and all of the songs sound like they are trying to build you a bridge from somewhere bad to somewhere bad to somewhere better. The Wonder Years are a band and they are also bridge builders” – poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.

SISTER CITIES TO BE RELEASED APRIL 6

What The Wonder Years do so effortlessly on Sister Cities is no small feat; through poetic lyricism, ambient guitar swells, and Death Cab-levels of crashing momentum, the Philadelphia-based group truly transforms. Whereas they once sang of the plagues of growing up, here they take a massive, unexpected leap forward both sonically and thematically, now speaking confidently to the world at large.