Watch: "The Search For The Heart" (via IFC)

Download: "The Search For The Heart" MP3 (via Baeble Music)

IFC has premiered the brand new video for Kyle Andrews “The Search For The Heart” which was produced by Michelle Steffes with directors Matt Barber and Matt Webb, starring Sam Brilhart and Elizabeth Trieu. Head over to the IFC website to watch the video and read an interview with director Matt Barber, who secretly wanted the video to pay homage to his favorite film, Stargate. Additionally, “The Search For The Heart” is available as MP3 download at Baeble Music and Kyle is currently on tour, with a full list of dates below. 

Despite its walls of electric guitars, raw synths and blasting drums, Robot Learn Love   was conceived and recorded almost exclusively by Kyle himself. Robot is an exercise in duality: lo-fi vocals recorded through built-in laptop mics, others recorded through top-of-the-line studio preamps, drums simulated with software in the bedroom, and backing live string players tracked at pro recording studios. Half drowning in a swirl of stuttering synths, Andrews' plaintive cry, "Why's it got to be so complex?" at last gives way to a rest, a breath, only to be sucked back into the lush chaos. Throughout, Andrews balances the bombastic sonic textures with personality and warmth.

Genre seems to shift between dance, pop-rock and indie electro-pop more effortlessly than Andrews' previous albums, and even when fully synthesized, feels more "live" and fierce than ever. Full band in tow, the live show exudes an energetic, rock 'n roll vibe that is twice as loud as anything he has managed to capture in the studio until now. If Kyle Andrews is the robot who has learned to love, he has also learned to rock.

KYLE ANDREWS TOUR DATES:

08.31 - Knoxville, TN @ Preservation Pub 
09.01 - Ashville, NC @ The Lab 
09.02 - Durham, NC @ Casbah
09.05 - Norfolk, VA @ The Taphouse
09.07 - Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java 
09.08 - Philadelphia, PA @ North Star 
09.09 - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Assembly 
09.10 - New York, NY @ Pianos
09.11 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
09.13 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement
09.30 - Greenwood, SC @ Music On Maxwell
10.07 - Murfreesboro, TN @ Gilligans 
10.13 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland  Tavern
10.14 - Atlanta GA @ Drunken Unicorn 
10.15 - Macon, GA @ The Rookery
10.21 - Atlanta, GA @ Smiths Old Bar
10.22 - Macon GA @ The Hummingbird
11.03 - Chattanooga TN @ JJ's Bohemia
11.04 - Knoxville TN @  Speakeasy

Kyle Andrews