FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2025
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ALL WE NEED IS “TIME” - LISTEN TO THE UPBEAT NEW CURTIS HARDING TRACK NOW

NEW ALBUM DEPARTURES & ARRIVALS: ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN CURT OUT SEPTEMBER 5

Photo Credit: Matt Correia

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 17

“Curtis Harding is an artist who has raised soul revivalism to an art form.”
- Soul Tracks 
 
“Ranging from Marvin Gaye-style throwdowns to somber, bluesy balladry—with plenty of ’60s and ’70s grooves in between, not to mention some Roots-level hip-hop in the mix—the record certainly sounds like a statement of purpose from an artist at the height of his powers.” – The AV Club 
 
“In a year that often had us feeling like tired patients in a never-ending waiting room, we’re happy to join Curtis in his relentless chorus of remaining “Hopeful.”” – Bitter Southerner

In the making of his fourth full-length, the Atlanta-based Curtis Harding dreamed up a batch of songs exploring the longing and unease of being far from home—a true-to-life reflection he soon expanded into an elaborate concept album about a pilot lost in space. The latest addition to an acclaimed catalog including his 2017 breakthrough Face Your Fear (co-produced by Danger Mouse), Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt merges the lavish scope of a space opera with the pure feeling of classic soul—ultimately bringing an even greater potency to his wildly eclectic sound.    
 
Self-produced at Electric Deluxe Recorders (an Austin studio owned by Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas), Departures & Arrivals serves as the follow-up to If Words Were Flowers—a 2021 release hailed by the likes of UPROXX, who praised Harding for “making some of the best modern soul music out right now.” 

One of the album’s most exhilarating moments, “Time” unfolds in smoldering horns and galvanizing call-and-response vocals as Harding offers reassurance to anyone losing faith. “When you feel alone it can be hard to see any hope, so I wanted to write an uplifting song about searching for the positive,” he says. “It might take some time, but if you keep pushing and put your best foot forward, you’ll get there.” Listen to the track below. 
 
Listen to “Time”: https://youtu.be/EFuUv0IVKT4 
 
With its track list ranging from the ornate romanticism of the album-opening “There She Goes” to the surreal grandeur of “Hard As Stone,” Departures & Arrivals marks the most complete manifestation yet of Harding’s expansive musicality. Born in Michigan but raised in Atlanta from age 14, he got his start singing and playing drums in church with his mother, a gospel singer who introduced him to seminal gospel acts like The Mighty Clouds of Joy. With his musical upbringing also including the Stax and Motown records his dad played at home, the ’90s hip-hop beloved by his sister, and the classic alt-rock favored by his friends, Harding started rapping at age nine and later moved on to writing songs after teaching himself to play guitar.  
 
In his early 20s, he began working in promotion for LaFace Records (the Atlanta-based label once home to legendary acts like TLC and OutKast) and quickly progressed to singing backup for CeeLo Green. After launching his own music career, he made his debut with 2014’s Soul Power and then delivered Face Your Fear—a genre-bending powerhouse that landed on NPR’s list of the year’s best R&B albums and soon found Harding touring with Jack White and taking the stage at major festivals like Lollapalooza. 
 
“Because I’m away from home so much of the time, a lot of these songs came from feeling adrift and wanting to get back to the ones I love,” he says. “I started envisioning this character who takes a journey and gets lost in space, then ends up traveling through different galaxies and dimensions as he’s trying to find his way back home.” 
 
Once again traveling far from home, Harding will embark on a fall European tour that begins in Spain on October 17; all upcoming tour dates are listed below. 

TOUR DATES 
Oct 17 - Madrid, Spain @ Wagon 
Oct 18 - Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Paral•lel 62 
Oct 21 - Bologna, Italy @ TPO 
Oct 23 - Rome, Italy @ MONK 
Oct 24 - Milan, Italy @ Santeria Toscana 31 
Oct 26 - Bern, Switzerland @ Mühle Hunziken 
Oct 28 - Paris, France @ L’Olympia 
Oct 30 - Berlin, Germany @ Festaal Kreuzberg 
Oct 31 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Musikforeningen Loppen 
Nov 1 - Hamburg, Germany @ Grosse Freiheit 36 
Nov 3 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg Ronda 
Nov 4 - Cologne, Germany @ Essigfabrik 
Nov 5 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Orangerie 
Nov 9 - Dublin, Ireland @ Opium 
Nov 10 - Glasgow, United Kingdom @ Óran Mór 
Nov 11 - Manchester, United Kingdom @ Gorilla 
Nov 12 - London, United Kingdom @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Pre-Save ‘Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt’ 
1. There She Goes 
2. Out In The Black 
3. Banh Me 
4. Time 
5. Hard As Stone 
6. The Power 
7. True Love Can’t Be Blind 
8. I’m With You 
9. Felt It Inside 
10. The Winter Soldier 
11. Running Outta Space 
 
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