New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Fresh off their packed LA record release show at The Regent,
Automatic (Izzy Glaudini, Lola Dompé, Halle Saxon) have announced their first headlining North American tour in support of their acclaimed new album Excess.
The band will cross the states for a NYC performance at Rough Trade's Indieplaza Festival, before heading back to Los Angeles to open for Bauhaus at the iconic The Greek Theatre. From there they hit Desert Daze and carry on to headline Brooklyn's Market Hotel, Chicago's Empty Bottle followed by Toronto, Montreal, Nashville and Levitation festival in Austin.
Tickets are on sale this Wednesday at 10AM local - purchase here. For a full list of dates, see below and check for updates via Automatic's Instagram.
On Excess,
Automatic masterfully synthesize a new strain of retrofuturist motorik pop. The album rides the imaginary edge where the '70s underground met the corporate culture of the '80s - "That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream all for the sake of consumerism."
This becomes the starting point for an exploration into the consequences of such excess - namely, the fact that Gen Z will inherit the world at the eleventh hour. Combining its urgent message with catchy pop hooks, Excess is tight and punchy: danceable music for the end of days.
Today, they've shared a new video for Excess' immediate track, "Automaton." Of the track,
Automatic explains "Automaton is about having to deprogram yourself from capitalist ways of thinking, but, of course, we framed the song in our sci-fi theme - with an actual automaton as protagonist." The band's accompanied video, created by Yana Pan and Jenny Nirgends, uses paper cut animations to illustrate one automaton's journey to break from the pack and create something new.
Tour Dates:
Sept 2nd - Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville
Music Festival
Sept 3rd - Tucson, AZ @ HOCO Festival
Sept 5th - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
Sept 6th - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
Sept 7th - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel*
Sept 9th - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater*
Sept 10th - Seattle, WA @ Neumos*
Sept 11th - Seattle, WA @ Neumos*
Sept 17th - New York, NY @ Rough Trade Indieplaza
Sept 23rd - Garden City, ID @ Flipside Fest
Sept 24th - Sacramento, CA @ Red Museum
Sept 29th - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre ~
Oct 1st - Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Oct 2nd - Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Oct 8th - Cuauhtémoc, Mexico @ Rabbit Hutch Festival
Oct 11th - Atlanta, GA @ 529
Oct 12th - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
Oct 13th - Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
Oct 14th - Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel
Oct 15th - Philadelphia, PA @ The Dolphin
Oct 18th - Cambridge, MA @ The Lilypad
Oct 19th - Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Foufounes
Oct 20th - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Oct 21st - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
Oct 22nd - Detroit, MI @ MOCAD
Oct 23rd - Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
Oct 24th - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room at Third Man Records
Oct 27th - Austin, TX @ Levitation
Oct 28th - Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry's
Oct 29th - Birmingham, AL @ Moonstone
Music Festival
Oct 30th - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Nov 11th - Seattle, WA @ Freakout Festival
* w/ Osees
~ w/ Bauhaus.
