The Milk Carton Kids will return to the UK and Ireland for a run of headline dates in January 2027, including London’s Barbican Centre, Bristol Beacon, Manchester’s Albert Hall, Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre and Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre.
The band has released their new album, Lost Cause Lover Fool, via Far Cry Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers. Produced by Pattengale, Lost Cause Lover Fool is the duo’s seventh studio album, expanding on their signature minimalist sound while staying grounded in the intimate songwriting and understated arrangements that define their work.
“This album is, at its core, a collection of songs about transformation,” Pattengale reflects. “About the shifting terrain of consciousness and the stories we build to understand who we’ve been, who we are, and who we’re becoming. Each song takes a single moment, sometimes examined with microscopic closeness and sometimes viewed from a great distance, and lets it expand until it becomes an entire world. By enlarging small feelings until they’re inhabitable, the record looks for eternity not in the sweeping or monumental, but in the intimate specifics that usually pass too quickly to notice.”
You can see the video for The Milk Carton Kids’ performance on CBS Saturday Sessions on 25 April 2026 below.
The tour dates are listed below, and tickets can be found at this link.
The Milk Carton Kids UK and Ireland tour dates 2026:
January 14—London, U.K.—Barbican Centre
January 15—Bristol, U.K. —Bristol Beacon
January 16—Manchester, UK—Albert Hall
January 17—Glasgow, U.K. —Pavilion Theatre
January 19—Dublin, Ireland—3Olympia Theatre
