Aug 31th, 2012- Noisey has premiered the official video for Ringo Deathstarr’s new single “Rip” today. “Rip” is the first offering from the Austin, Texas trio’s forthcoming album Mauve (to be released in North America by Sonic Unyon on Sept 25th). The song is equally distorted and dreamy with bassist Alex Gehring handling vocals. The visuals for the song reflect this with Gehring, Elliott Frazier (guitar/vocals) and Daniel Coborn (drums) taking a Technicolor trip (replete with trails) with the help of some 3-D glasses from their cereal box.
Watch the new video for “Rip” in the video above or here:
noisey.vice.com/music-video-premieres/ringo-deathstarr
Speaking on the creation of the song, Frazier recounts “Rip’ was the sixteenth and last song we recorded (for Mauve). Alex gave me a demo of herself singing the melody on an unplugged electric guitar. Without the drums, it could have been a Beat Happening song, but I was inspired and played drums on the track. It was created pretty organically and there was never any forethought that it would be the first single.”
Self-produced in Austin and Los Angeles, Mauve follows Ringo Deathstarr’s highly received 2011 LP, Colour Trip. Colour Trip, known for a massively blown out but melodic sound, helped the band to be named a highlight of SXSW 2011 by CNN, Brooklyn Vegan, NPR and Wired. The latter summed up their sound as “the band sounds like it leaped screaming out of My Bloody Valentine's blown amps.”
Rather than trying to raise the dizzying wall of guitar sound on its predecessor, Mauve raises the melodies and dials back the sonic assault while retaining the band’s signature decibel power. Frazier says of this approach “Colour Trip was a great studio album but on Mauve we just wanted to write songs that we would have a blast playing live and could recreate easily on stage.”
The band will be embarking on a five week North American tour this September and October. (Confirmed tour dates below). Album pre-order links is also below including full-length in LP, CD and digital editions via Sonic Unyon for North America and Rip 7” on Electric Blue Vinyl via UK label AC30.
CONFIRMED TOUR DATES:
09/14 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
09/15 Tempe, AZ - Club Red
09/16 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
09/17 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
09/18 Long Beach, CA - Que Sera
09/19 San Francisco, CA - Milk Bar
09/20 Portland, OR – Slabtown
09/22 Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown
09/23 Seattle, WA - Comet Club
09/26 Salt Lake City, UT - Bar Deluxe
09/27 Denver, CO - Lions Lair
09/29 Lawrence, KS - The Jackpot
09/30 Fayetteville, AR - Lightbulb Club
10/01 Norman, OK - Oklahoma University
10/02 Springfield, MO - Highlife
10/04 St. Paul, MN - The Turf Club
10/05 Milwaukee, WI - Riverwest Public House
10/06 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
10/07 St Louis, MO – Plush
10/08 Louisville, KY - Zanzibar
10/09 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop Bar
10/10 Dayton, OH - South Park Tavern
10/11 Grandville, MI - Corner Records
10/12 Windsor, ON – Phog Lounge w/ Kestrels
10/13 Toronto , ON - The Garrison w/ Kestrels
10/14 Hamilton, ON - This Ain't Hollywood w/ Kestrels
10/16 Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class
10/17 Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar
10/18 Northampton, MA - The Flywheel
10/19 Boston, MA – Deep Heaven Now Festival
10/21 Brooklyn , NY - Shea Stadium
10/22 New York, NY - The Cakeshop
10/23 College Park, MD – WMUC
10/24 Philadelphia, PA – Pi Lam
10/25 Washington DC – The Red Palace
10/26 Baltimore, MD – Golden West Cafe
More Info: www.sonicunyon.com
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