…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Hit 25th Year with New LP & U.S. Tour

Austin’s …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are returning after six years with their 10th full-length studio album X: The Godless Void and Other Stories – due out on January 17th, 2020 on Dine Alone Records in North America. The new LP comes as the band enters their 25th year together and …Trail of Dead will kick off the album release with a show at LA’s Masonic Lounge in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery followed by a couple of weeks of West Coast dates. Along with the news today the band has revealed the first single via the official video for “Don’t Look Down” (below) directed, edited and produced by Conrad Keely. The single will be available via all DSPs tomorrow, November 15th, along with an album pre-order.

X: The Godless Void and Other Stories was produced by …Trail’s own Conrad Keely alongside engineer Charles Godfrey (Sinkane, of Montreal, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Work on the new album began in earnest in 2018 after Keely returned home to Austin following five years in Cambodia, rejoining fellow founding member Jason Reece. As a result, the album sees Keely detailing “the sadness of moving away from a place that I loved,” while also taking inspiration from Steven Pressfield’s book The War Of Art to face his own demons regarding the creative process. “I feel like I’m writing pop music,” he says, “it’s just not Top 20 pop. It’s the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would’ve grown up with.”

Reece agrees, citing Talk Talk, Killing Joke and Laurie Anderson as inspirations. “There’s definitely the idea of loss, leaving someone or something important in your life, but it’s more abstract,” he explains, adding that the track “Into The Godless Void” in particular deals with “this existential woe that all humans tend to go through – feeling that weight that plagues the mind.”

Tour Dates

Jan. 17 @ Masonic Lounge at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles, CA
Jan. 18 @ Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA
Jan. 20 @ Fox Cabaret in Vancouver, BC
Jan. 21 @ The Crocodile in Seattle, WA
Jan. 22 @ Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR
Jan. 23 @ The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA
Jan. 24 @ Strummer’s in Fresno, CA
Jan. 25 @ Bunkhouse Saloon in Las Vegas, NV
Jan. 27 @ 191 Toole in Tucson, AZ
Jan. 29 @ Lowbrow Palace in El Paso, TX

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