Gus Dapperton brings 4 Dear Life to Metro Music Hall

Two and a half years after his Granary Live show, Gus Dapperton returns to Salt Lake City on April 12, 2027, with his first album in three years.

The last time Gus Dapperton came through Salt Lake City was Oct. 10, 2024, at Granary Live. He's back on Monday, April 12, 2027, at Metro Music Hall, with the show at 7 p.m. Tickets are through Metro Music Hall.

Metro holds about 600, which makes this a close-up look at an artist with a new record to sell and, by early reviews, a looser, more danceable one than people might expect.

That record is 4 Dear Life, Dapperton's fourth studio album and his first in three years. It came out Oct. 23 on ALTER Music. He announced it in September alongside the single "Queen," which came with a video he directed himself, as The Line of Best Fit reported. The guest list is broad: Ledbyher, A-Trak, spill tab and hard life all appear, per Clash.

Melodic Magazine traced the title to the expression "holding on for dear life," and that's the mood of the thing. Clash's review gave it a 7 out of 10 and called it eclectic pop effervescence: an attempt to find hope and relief in a politically and economically unstable world through community, partying and connection. The reviewer heard a record moving into uncharted territory, eleven upbeat tracks you can't help but dance to, and something that sounds different from his past work.

That past work goes back a while. Dapperton's debut, Where Polly People Go to Read, was announced in early 2019, per BroadwayWorld, and the albums Orca and HENGE followed, according to Dork and his Wikipedia entry. If you came to him through the bedroom-pop years, 4 Dear Life is a different proposition, and a Monday night at a room this size is a good place to hear what it sounds like when a crowd can actually move.

There's a practical angle too. A 600-cap room on a weeknight in April is the kind of show that's easy to forget about until the week of. The new album is already out, so you have five months to decide whether "Queen" is your song before you're standing in front of it. The listing is on JamBase.

Granary Live was the last time. Metro is the next one. Put it on the calendar now, because April Mondays fill up faster than you'd think.

Sources: The Line of Best Fit: Gus Dapperton announces new album 4 Dear Life and shares Queen (thelineofbestfit.com); Clash: Gus Dapperton announces new album 4 Dear Life (clashmusic.com); Clash: Gus Dapperton - 4 Dear Life (review) (clashmusic.com); Melodic Magazine: Gus Dapperton 4 Dear Life (melodicmag.com); BroadwayWorld: Gus Dapperton announces debut album (china.broadwayworld.com); Dork: Gus Dapperton announces Orca (readdork.com); Gus Dapperton - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Metro Music Hall (metromusichall.com); JamBase listing (jambase.com)