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: http://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.
Photo Credit Alexandra Valenti
- 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
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
