BOYS will be released on May 29th 2009 by City Slang Records. The album contains 11 brand new tracks, including Being Crosby, a duet with Jim James (My Morning Jacket):

Solid State / Watusii / Son & Moon / Being Crosby / Oslo / So We Sing / Palace / Bad News / Oh, China / 17 Horses / Oh, Suicide

BOYS will be preceded by the release of a single, Watusii, on May 15th. Available as a 12” and download, it offers remixes by Simon Baker and Daphni (the alter ego of Caribou’s Dan Snaith). The 12” additionally includes the a cappella vocals as a DJ tool.

A series of solo and duo live dates have been confirmed.
Sun March 29 London Slaughtered Lamb (w/ Beth Orton: sold out)
Sun April 5 Berlin Volksbühne Im Prater (w/ High Places)
Mon April 6 London Slaughtered Lamb (Headline duo show)

In addition she will perform at Norway’s Bergenfest at Peer Gynt on May 1, and she has also been confirmed as the support for Andrew Bird on his May UK tour. She will perform with a band at the following shows:
Sun 10 May Bristol Thekla (Full band show)
Mon 11 May London Shepherds Bush Empire (Full band show)
Wed 13 May Manchester Academy 3 (Trio show)
Thu 14 May Glasgow Oran Mor (Trio show)

Further band dates in Europe will be announced soon.

Recorded in CORTNEY’s home and her friends’ homes and co-produced by CORTNEY, her husband Todd Tidwell and Ryan Norris, BOYS is, like its predecessor, an astonishingly eclectic and genre-defying mix of the many musical forms that have inspired her. It owes as much to Depeche Mode and Joy Division as it does to Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash, and as much, if not more, to Great Britain as to The Grand Ole Opry. It’s all held together by CORTNEY’s extraordinary voice: athletic and graceful, as capable of immaculate innocence as banshee wails, and equipped with an irrefutable ability to strike right to the heart.

Since …STARS… was released TIDWELL has seen a remix of its title track by the esteemed producer, DJ and musician Ewan Pearson end up in Pitchfork’s roundup of 2007’s Tracks Of The Year. CORTNEY also recently collaborated with Sideshow (the alter ego of Ninjatune artist Fink) while a featured vocal for Belgian band Arsenal was included on their most recent release which sat atop the Belgian charts for two weeks. Rumours of further collaborations may prove accurate.