New York, NY (Top40 Charts) DJ Shadow's First Tour Since 2017 Begins Today In Amsterdam, Us Dates Kick Off May 5
DJ Shadow has unveiled the lyric video for "Our Pathetic Age," the title track to his recently released and raved about double album. The dark disco romp features Samuel T. Herring from
Future Islands on lead vocals, and the video unfolds as a series of out of control pop-up windows on a PC.
The "Our Pathetic Age" video was animated and directed by Adam Dunn, who worked on the Oscar-winning animated film Into The Spider-Verse. Dunn also created the video for "
Kings & Queens" featuring Run The Jewels.
DJ Shadow's first tour since 2017 begins tonight in Amsterdam. It will kick off in the US on May 5, and a performance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona follows on June 4.
DJ Shadow's Our Pathetic Age AR lens, featuring audio from the album, is also now live on the Instagram app, in which fans can connect with the music using their phone's camera lens. Created by Lookmister. Visit this link to use the lens and share with friends. The inspiration came from an "infinite loop" created by the team that designed DJ Shadow's new website. The album artwork is featured with the ability to tap and transform into colorful shapes that continuously zoom, offering an interesting outlook into the world that the user is viewing from their camera lens.
Our Pathetic Age was released in November on Mass Appeal, and met with wide acclaim including a recent feature in the New Yorker. The first suite features 11 original, instrumental tracks that include his deepest dive yet into original composition and his first fully orchestrated piece of music. The second is a full album of vocal collaborations including Pusha T, Run The Jewels, Nas, Dave East, Samuel T. Herring, Paul
Banks and Wiki, Inspectah Deck,
Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, and Brooklyn MC Stro. Shadow also reunited with his early Solesides collaborators Lateef The Truthseeker and Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), and partnered with fellow Bay Area musicians Fantastic Negrito and Jumbo is Dr.ama.
Watch DJ Shadow perform "Rocket Fuel" with
De La Soul on Jimmy Kimmel Live here: https://youtu.be/i_I_CDJTyfs
PRAISE FOR OUR PATHETIC AGE:
"An impressive testament to DJ Shadow's creative nomadism, uncompromising and imposing in its aggressive music" - AV Club
"Thrilling...by breaking sounds loose from the strictures of time and genre, DJ Shadow implies that the music still runs free" -
Chicago Tribune
"The biggest chunk of original instrumental music he's released, and it comes with lovely, welcome surprises" - Rolling Stone
"Mr. Davis's best stretch of music in two decades" - Wall Street Journal
"Transcendent...pushes his music into new, thrilling places" - The Ringer
TOUR DATES:
Feb 20 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
Feb 21 - Paris, France - Trianon
Feb 22 - Bruxelles, Belgium - La Madeleine
Feb 24 - Berlin, Germany - Metropol
Feb 27 - Glasgow, Scotland, UK - SWG3 Galvanizers
Feb 28 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall
Feb 29 - Brixton, London, UK - 02 Academy Brixton
May 5 - Atlanta, GA - Centre Stage
May 7 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Sound Stage
May 9 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
May 12 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
May 14 - Chicago, IL - Park West
May 17 - Denver - Ogden Theatre
May 20 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall
May 22 - Bakersfield, CA - Lightning in a Bottle
May 23 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
June 4 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
Listen to Our Pathetic Age here: https://djshadow.lnk.to/OPAPR
