Tribes of the City: New Album & Concerts | 20 Years On

In the world of music, seven years can seem like an entire era, especially in the confines of the alternative music scene, where fans can emotionally perceive a creative silence as the dissolution of a particular association. Since the band’s previous, self-produced and self-released album Rust and Gold released in 2019, just before the global pandemic, the world and, therefore, the music scene in Latvia and elsewhere has changed noticeably.

In the story of “Tribes of the City”, this period began with reasonable expectations about the concert life of the newly released album in wider Europe: on March 1, 2020, the group arrived in Berlin to perform at the prestigious radio station “Radio Fritz”. It was the band’s first performance together after a five-year hiatus, a high-energy milestone that was supposed to usher in a new era of sorts. However, a week later, the lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic began, and the hoped-for return “disappeared in the covid haze”, leaving Rust and Gold undeserved neglect.