THE BLACK ANGELS UNVEIL GROUNDBREAKING NEW ALBUM
INDIGO MEADOW HERALDED BY PROVOCATIVE NEW TRACK
"DON'T PLAY WITH GUNS" STREAMING NOW AT THEBLACKANGELS.COM
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF APRIL 4TH IN ATHENS, GA;
DATES INCLUDE THEIR OWN AUSTIN PSYCH FEST,
SET FOR APRIL 26TH - 28TH
INDIGO MEADOW ARRIVES EVERYWHERE ON APRIL 2ND
Blue Horizon recording group The Black Angels have announced the upcoming release of their eagerly anticipated new album. Indigo Meadow will arrive in stores and online on April 2nd.
Indigo Meadow
is heralded by the high-powered "Don't Play With Guns." Penned just
days before last year's mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the song is
streaming now exclusively via The Black Angels' newly relented www.theblackangels.com.
"Our
music has always tried to shed light on issues that may be hard to deal
with or confront," says singer/guitarist Alex Maas. "If people think
they can ignore the issues, they are wrong. Don't play with guns,
don't touch a hot stove, don't give your child a poisonous snake, don't
turn the cheek when artists are willing to discuss these issues."
"In
'Don't Play With Guns' the antagonist is a female who has the power of
persuasion over a man," he continues. "Substitute the female
antagonist with a Nation, substitute the manipulated man with
yourself. Heed the warning: Don't Play With Guns."
The Black Angels' most revelatory collection thus far, Indigo Meadow marks the Austin, Texas-based band's fourth full-length release, following 2010's acclaimed Phosphene Dream.
Once again The Black Angels prove themselves the undisputed avatars of
contemporary psychedelic rock, simultaneously exalting the genre's
kaleidoscopic past as they thrust it further into the future. Now a
four-piece - ably supported behind the board by producer/mixer John
Congleton (David Byrne & St. Vincent, Explosions In The Sky,
Clinic) - the band have brought new focus to their wide-ranging
songcraft, the righteous riffs and dogmatic drones gaining increased
power as they fuel a more expansive emotional terrain. The ominous
organ grooves and carpet-bombing beats surely resonate with blood and
fire, but songs like "Love Me Forever" and the deep blue title track
also see a little light entering the Black Angels' notorious heart of
darkness. A 21st century trip as transcendent as any in the canon, Indigo Meadow masterfully
affirms the Black Angels' full-throttle commitment to the psychedelic
ethos of creativity, community and boundless experimentation.
Founded
in 2004, The Black Angels have been at the spearhead of the
post-millennial psychedelic movement, picking up the mantle of their
hometown's long lysergic history and reinvigorating it with progressive
political commentary and unrestrained creativity and ambition. Long
hailed for their monumental live sets, The Black Angels will celebrate
the arrival of Indigo Meadow with a major North American tour, set to get underway April 4th at Athens, GA's Georgia Theatre and then continue a May 26th
date at San Antonio, TX's appropriately named White Rabbit. Support
comes from a stellar line-up of lysergically like-minded artists,
including Allah-Las, Elephant Stone, Hanni El Khatib, and Wall of Death
(see attached itinerary). Tickets will go on sale this Friday, January
25th - please see www.theblackangels.com for more information.
Further, The Black Angels will once again have a headline role at their own annual Austin Psych Fest, set for April 26th - 28th. Early Bird Weekend Passes are on sale now - please see www.austinpsychfest.com for details.
As
it enters its sixth year, Austin Psych Fest has proven the locus for
today's incredibly wide-ranging psychedelic scene, as expansive and
revolutionary and exhilarating now as at any moment since its 1960s
zenith. APF has quickly become no less an institution as the Newport
Folk Festival or the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival,
inspiring - as it was itself inspired - numerous other like-minded
gatherings in such far-flung locales as Liverpool, Santiago, and Cape
Town. Like ever before, psychedelia's countless creative tendrils lead
back to Austin, where in 1966, the 13th Floor
Elevators were praised for their "psychedelic rock," forever marking
the city as the forward-thinking sound-and-vision's official
birthplace.
The
Black Angels: Christian Bland - guitar, drone machine/organ * Alex
Maas - vocals, bass, organ, drone machine * Stephanie Bailey - drums,
percussion * Kyle Hunt - keyboards, percussion, bass, guitar.
For up-to-the-minute news and information, please visit www.theblackangels.com, www.facebook.com/theblackangels.tx, and http://twitter.com/_theblackangels.
THE BLACK ANGELS
NORTH AMERICA 2013
APRIL
4 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre #
5 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel #
6 Washington, DC Black Cat #
7 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer #
8 New York, NY Webster Hall #
11 Boston, MA Royale #
12 Montreal, QC Le National #
13 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall #
15 Detroit, MI Magic Stick #
16 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom #
17 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall #
19 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre #
20 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe #
21 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room #
22 Lawrence, KS Granada #
26-28 Austin, TX Austin Psych Fest
MAY
2 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon %
3 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre %
5 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge %
7 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue %
8 St. Louis, MO The Firebird %
10 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater %
11 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot %
13 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre %
14 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom %
15 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom %
17 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore %
18 Pomona, CA The Glass House ^
19 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern ^
21 Los Angeles, CA Mayan Theatre ^
22 Tucson, AZ Club Congress ^
24 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's ^
25 Dallas, TX Granada Theater ^
26 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit ^
# w/Allah-Las, Elephant Stone
% w/Hanni El Khatib, Wall of Death
^ w/Wall of Death
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