NYC’s critically acclaimed trio, Blonde Redhead, will release their new album, Barragán, on Kobalt Music on September 2nd, 2014. The album was produced, engineered, and mixed by Drew Brown (Beck, Radiohead, The Books, Lower Dens, Sandro Perri) and recorded at Key Club Recording in Benton Harbor, Michigan and The Magic Shop in NYC. Barragán’s first song, “No More Honey,” can be heard now via the band’s website.
The band’s newest record, Barragán, is one of the freshest in their acclaimed catalogue, taking Blonde Redhead down yet another new sonic path nine records into their career. This is a band whose name has been built on the endless evolution of their own aural dynamics, and in that respect, Barragán does not disappoint. It is the most stark, elemental, stripped back album Blonde Redhead has ever made, relying on shivers of analogue keyboard twists and the off-kilter, slinky rhythms of drummer Simone Pace to carry the voices of singers/guitarists Kazu Makino and Amadeo Pace, two of the most distinct voices in independent music. These songs are some of the most sensual, serendipitous, sparse recordings to come from Blonde Redhead, showcasing a completely new side to the three songwriters, and marking Barragán as that crucial next sonic step forward for one of New York City’s most important bands of the last two decades.
The band will be embarking on their first dates to support Barragán in September. See below for tour dates and track listing. North American tour dates to be announced soon.
Track listing:
- Barragán
- Lady M
- Dripping
- Cat On Tin Roof
- The One I Love
- No More Honey
- Mind To Be Had
- Defeatist Anthem (Harry and I)
- Penultimo
- Seven Two
