California soul rockers Cold War Kids will release their highly-anticipate fifth album Hold Me Home on October 17 through Downtown Records.

Produced by guitarist, and former Modest Mouse member, Dann Gallucci and Lars Stalfors (Funeral Party, Mars Volta), the record is the follow up to last year¡¯s Dear Miss Lonelyhearts. Often striving to make honest songs about the human experience, in orchards, hotel rooms, churches and laundromats, the indie quartet last visited Australian shores in 2013 for Splendour In The Grass.

Forming a decade ago, Cold War Kids burst into global consciousness in 2006 with their debut album Robbers & Cowards. Showing no signs of slowing down, the hand-clapping and stomping four-piece shortly released Loyalty To Loyalty (2008) and Mine In Yours (2011).

Already the band has teased fans with lead single, ¡®All This Could Be Yours¡¯, but the band also recently unleashed their track ¡®First¡¯. With lyrics, ¡°Flying like a cannonball, fall up to the earth, Hold me as a veteran, who eat the dirt¡± the uplifting rock anthem is full of jittery guitars, handclaps and dynamic vocals.

When asked to explain the new album Hold Me Home, frontman Nathan Willet said that the album could be understood by simply listening to the title track. The song explores the idea of home, and how for a traveling musician, home is often found in memories rather than a physical destination. The lyrics read: ¡°You¡¯ve moved every year or two since you were 18. Home is no longer an actual place you return to. It¡¯s ephemeral; it¡¯s where you go in your memory to recall friends, your identity, your version of family. You can¡¯t touch or hold on to it, but you can feel home anywhere. But where are your roots now? Sometimes I wish that I could stop time and hold my home where the seasons never change.¡±

Cold War Kids ¨C Hold My Home Track-listing:
01. All This Could Be Yours
02. First
03. Hot Coals
04. Drive Desperate
05. Hotel Anywhere
06. Go Quietly
07. Nights & Weekends
08. Hold My Home
09. Flower Drum Song
10. Harold Bloom
11. Hear My Baby Call