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Relient K Performs on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” March 2; Marc Webb Lenses Video For “Must Have Done Something Right,” First Single From Five Score And Seven Years Ago, Due Out March 6

Relient K returns with an ambitious new album, Five Score And Seven Years Ago, scheduled for release March 6, and an extensive headlining tour. The band will perform on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” on Friday, March 2.
The tour launches March 9 in New York City, and will keep the band on the road through May. Capitol recording artist Mae and Sherwood will open for Relient K.

Lead single “Must Have Done Something Right” has gotten off to a great start at Top 40 radio, with a slew of adds its first week out. “Be My Escape” and “Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been” from 2004’s mmhmm, the band’s third consecutive Gold album, were both Top 20 hits at the format. Marc Webb (Yellowcard, P.O.D., Santana, AFI) recently directed the video for “Must Have Done Something Right.” Fans can purchase a digital download or mp3 of the single plus “Fallen Man,” a bonus track that will not appear on the album, via the band’s website, RelientK.com.

On Five Score And Seven Years Ago, produced by Howard Benson (Less Than Jake, My Chemical Romance, the All-American Rejects) and Mark Townsend, Relient K explores new ground while keeping its characteristically offbeat sense of humor intact. With five members now contributing vocals, the harmonies are even more striking and intricate, as evidenced from the first bars of opening track, “Plead the Fifth,” an eyewitness account of Lincoln’s assassination by a narrator of dubious reliability, to the album closer “Deathbed,” an epic that features Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman as a guest vocalist.