Methyl Ethel Announces First Major U.S. Tour This Fall, Supporting Preoccupations
Debut album Oh Inhuman Spectacle out now on 4AD
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Fresh off a victorious run of dates in the UK and Europe, including appearances at Primavera Sound Festival, The Great Escape and London Calling, Methyl Ethel is pleased to announce their first major tour of North America this fall supporting Preoccupations. The tour will kick off in Calgary on October 1st and highlights include Thalia Hall in Chicago, IL on October 5th, Warsaw in Brooklyn on October 14th and The Roxy in Los Angeles on October 28th. The band will make a quick stop in the U.S. this summer to play Outside Lands and the Denver Underground Music Showcase.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "TWILIGHT DRIVING" HERE
Hailing from the remote fringes of Perth, Western Australia, linchpin Jake Webb started Methyl Ethel in 2013 as a way of getting his bedroom recordings out in the public domain. Like 4AD peers Grimes and Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound), Oh Inhuman Spectacle was crafted in isolation where Webb wrote, played and recorded everything, with fellow Perth residents Thom Stewart (bass) and Chris Wright (drums) recruited to bring the songs to life on stage. The band is currently working on their next record due out in 2017.
Acclaim for Oh Inhuman Spectacle:
"Methyl Ethel makes dream-pop for insomniacs - shadowy, nocturnal music whose surface shimmer barely conceals the fidgety, restless soul lurking underneath." - Pitchfork
"Plays like a brain chemistry experiment gone horribly right." Rolling Stone
"A highly promising debut." - Q
"The group's debut is so meticulously crafted, sweet, and palatable for anyone with good feelings towards the indie pop and rock of the last decade. Whether you're into dream pop, chillwave, or psych, Jake Webb and co. have something for you." Consequence of Sound
"Oh Inhuman Spectacle came together brilliantly." Stereogum
"Methyl Ethel's Jake Webb is a one-man studio band with a gift for psychedelic melodies. The cavernous acoustics at an 8th Street church enhanced his trio's spacy mix, with reverberating guitar and programmed textures undergirding the rhythm section's drive. Webb's high-pitched vocals added to the sense of airiness, with a melancholy undertow." Chicago Tribune 
METHYL ETHEL - OH INHUMAN SPECTACLE
CAD3641 [CD/LP/DL]
1. Idée Fixe
2. Shadowboxing
3. Rogues
4. To Swim
5. Twilight Driving
6. Depth Perception
7. Unbalancing Acts
8. Also Gesellschaft
9. Obscura
10. Artificial Limb
11. Sweet Waste
12. Everything Is As It Should Be
METHYL ETHEL TOUR DATES
6.25 - 7.2.16 - Roskilde Festival 2016 - Roskilde, Denmark
7.14 - 7.17.16 - Latitude Festival 2016 - Southwold, UK
7.22 - 7.24.16 - Splendor In The Grass Festival 2016 - Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
7.28 - 7.31.16 - UMS - The Underground Music Showcase - Denver, CO
8.5 - 8.7.16 - Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival - San Francisco, CA
9.2 - 9.4.16 - End of the Road Festival - Salisbury, UK
10.01.16 - Mac Hall Ballroom - Calgary, AB*
10.03.16 - WECC - Winnipeg, MB*
10.04.16 - Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN*
10.05.16 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, Il*
10.07.16 - Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, MI*
10.08.16 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON*
10.11.16 Virgin Mobile Corona Theater Montreal, QC*
10.12.16 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA*
10.14.16 - Warsaw - Brooklyn NY*
10.15.16 - First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA*
10.16.16 - Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington DC*
10.18.16 - Masquerade - Atlanta, Ga*
10.19.16 - Gasa Gasa - New Orleans, La *
10.21.16 - The Mohawk - Austin, TX *
10.25.16 - Valley Bar - Phoenix, AZ *
10.26.16 - The Irenic - San Diego, CA *
10.28.16 - The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA *
11.02.16 - Neumos - Seattle, WA *
*Supporting Preoccupations
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