New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The
Black Angels - Austin's psych rock masters - have confirmed details for their upcoming album, 'Death Song,' out April 21st. This will be the five-piece's first full-length release in four years, and their debut for Partisan Records. Scorching opening track "Currency" is streaming now via NPR Music's All Songs Considered, who called it "a dark and gritty new cut about greed and corruption." Listen here and feel free to post: https://n.pr/2lkriAg
Written and recorded in large part during the recent election cycle, the music on 'Death Song' serves as part protest, part emotional catharsis in a climate dominated by division, anxiety and unease. "Currency," a strong contender for the heaviest song the band has ever put to wax, meditates on the governing role the monetary system plays in our lives, while slow-building psychedelic earworm "Half Believing" questions the nature and confusing realities of devotion.
Recorded between Seattle and Austin, 'Death Song' features production from Phil Ek (Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, The Shins). The 11-track collection offers a sharply honed elaboration on their signature sound - menacing fuzz guitar and cutting wordplay, steeped in a murky hallucinatory dream.
The band will tour extensively behind 'Death Song', including a headline set at one of the first-ever shows at new NYC venue Brooklyn Steel on May 2nd. Full itinerary below for "The Death March Tour", which begins in Nashville. The band will be supported by A Place to Bury Strangers.
Since forming in Austin in 2004, The
Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock, and the New York Times has said they "play psychedelic rock as if the 1960s never ended, and they are absolute masters of it". The band has toured with Queens of the Stone Age, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the
Black Keys + more, and played festivals such as Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Primavera, Harvest Fest, Coachella and Bonnaroo. Two of the band members co-founded Levitation Festival (formerly Austin Psych Fest) in 2008, which has since grown into one of the best-reviewed and expertly-curated festivals in the country (returning in 2018).
'Death Song' Track List:
Currency
I'd Kill For Her
Half Believing
Comanche Moon
Hunt Me Down
Grab As Much (As You Can)
Estimate
I Dreamt
Medicine
Death March
Life Song
Pre-Orders start Feb 8 on www.theblackangels.com
The Death March Tour
April 26 - The Basement East - Nashville, TN
April 27 - The Mill & Mine - Knoxville, TN
April 28 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
April 29 - The
Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
April 30 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
May 2 - Brooklyn Steel - Brooklyn, NY
May 4 - Union
Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
May 5 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA
May 6 - Danforth
Music Hall - Toronto, ON
May 7 - St. Andrew's Hall - Detroit, MI
May 9 - The Woodward Theater - Cincinnati, OH
May 10 - Newport
Music Hall - Columbus, OH
May 11 -
Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL
May 12 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
May 13 - Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI
May 15 - Delmer Hall - St. Louis, MO
May 16 - Madrid Theatre - Kansas City, MO
May 18 - White Oak
Music Hall - Houston, TX
May 19 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
May 20 - Stubb's - Austin, TX
Supported by A Place to Bury Strangers
