EL VY, a new project featuring The National’s Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf, Portland producer best known for his work in Menomena and Ramona Falls, will release their debut album Return to the Moon on October 30 via 4AD.

The album came together after years of back and forth and, as a press release notes, The National and Ramona Falls are both currently preparing upcoming releases, so EL VY is not a replacement or a side project. The duo will support the record with a tour featuring a live band beginning November 2.

“This record is more autobiographical than anything else I’ve written,” says Berninger, “but the details aren’t true. It’s written in the voices of a few invented characters, composites of different people – myself, my wife, and other people I was thinking about.”

EL VY Tour Dates:

November 2 Portland, OR—Doug Fir Lounge
November 3 Portland, OR—Doug Fir Lounge
November 4 Seattle, WA—Neumos
November 6 San Francisco, CA—The Independent
November 7 Los Angeles, CA—Troubadour
November 10 Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer
November 11 Washington, DC—9:30 Club
November 13 New York, NY—Bowery Ballroom
November 14 Brooklyn, NY—Music Hall Williamsburg
November 15 Boston, MA—The Sinclair
November 16 Montreal, QC—Theatre Fairmont
November 17 Toronto, ON—Opera House
November 19 Chicago, IL—Metro
November 20 Milwaukee, WI—Turner Hall Ballroom
November 21 Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue
December 1 Copenhagen, Denmark—Pumpehuse
December 2 Hamburg, Germany—Knust
December 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands—Melkweg
December 4 Cologne, Germany—Kantine
December 6 Berlin, Germany—Astra
December 7 Brussels, Belgium—AB
December 8 Paris, France—Trabendo
December 10 London, England—Electric Ballroom
December 12 Manchester, England—Gorilla
November 13 Dublin, Ireland—Whelans