NEWS

Jon Hopkins is to release Immunity, his fourth solo album and follow up to 2009's Insides, on Domino on June 4th (North America) / June 3rd (rest of the world). 

A powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focused music Hopkins has ever made, Immunity is about achieving euphoric states through music. Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, the album peaks with "Collider," a huge, apocalyptic, techno monster and dissolves with the quiet, heartbreakingly beautiful closer, "Immunity," a track featuring vocals from King Creosote which could sit comfortably alongside the gems of their 2011 Mercury-nominated collaboration, Diamond Mine.

Immunity is a confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place. It feels like the hypnotic accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins' mind, using analog synthesis alongside manipulations of physical, real-world sounds to make dance music that feels as natural and unforced as possible.

Immunity is the most human electronic album you'll hear this year. 

Watch a psychedelic album trailer made by Craig Ward below. Food dyes crystallize under a microscope, creating an anisotropic, kaleidoscopic world of color. 

Immunity tracklisting: 

1. We Disappear
2. Open Eye Signal
3. Breathe This Air
4. Collider
5. Abandon Window
6. Form By Firelight
7. Sun Harmonics
8. Immunity

Dan Deacon is set to release a "Konono Ripoff No. 1" limited 7" (500 hand-numbered worldwide) for this year's Record Store Day. The song has been a fan favorite of his recent live shows and the 7" features two versions of the track as performed by two sets of dual drummers:  Kevin O'Meara and Jeremy Hyman on Side A; Denny Bowen and Dave Jacober on Side B.

The cover photo for the 7" was taken at Whiteside Mountain near Highlands, NC by Molton Brouff, the winner of the crowd sourced Dan Deacon America Instagram contest presented by the fine folks at Aperture. See the other winners and the full gallery of submissions here.

Dan has also recently been nominated for a mtvU Woodie in the 'Branching Out' category, and unveiled yet another crowd sourced contest allowing fans to program a light show for the Dan Deacon App to be used on his upcoming tour supporting Animal Collective. Find out more information and take part here.

In April, he'll perform at some of the nation's biggest museums including the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and Mass MOCA  with a special performance culminating at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on April 27. The Met show will feature special guests from So Percussion and the NYU Steel Drum band.  

He sets out on tour this week to support fellow Domino band Animal Collective. Full dates below.

03-07 Boston, MA - House of Blues Boston *
03-08 Montreal, QC - Metropolis  *
03-09 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall  
03-11 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues Cleveland *
03-12 Covington, KY - The Madison Theater *
03-13 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works  *
03-15 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall  *
03-16 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre  *
03-17 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre Madison  *
03-18 Minneapolis, WI - First Avenue  *
03-20 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant  *
03-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theatre  *
03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre  *
03-23 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot *
03-24 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival
04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
04-12 Philadelphia, PA - The Kimmel Center (Perelman Theater)
04-20 North Adams, MA - MASS MoCA
04-27 New York, NY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
06-21 Dover, DE - Firefly Music Festival
07-12 Mariaville, KY - CAMP Bisco Music Festival  
* = w/ Animal Collective

We're happy to confirm that The Pastels have completed their brilliant new album Slow Summits, which will be released on May 28 2013 (North America) / May 27 2013 (Rest of the world).

Slow Summits is the culmination of all the music they've been engaged in since their 1997 set, Illumination. Not quite as shadowy a presence as sometimes suggested, their music has continued to grow by way of other activities; a well regarded film soundtrack (The Last Great Wilderness, Geographic, 2003), some theatre pieces (for 12 Stars) and a collaboration with Japan's Tenniscoats (Two Sunsets, Geographic, 2009). Slow Summits gathers on all these works but moves off in newer and older ways too with its flowing montage of autumn instrumentals, pop songs, slow motion build ups and suddenly optimistic melody lines.  

Recorded in Glasgow by John McEntire and Bal Cooke, and mixed in Chicago by McEntire, Slow Summits features the core Pastels lineup of Stephen McRobbie, Katrina Mitchell, Tom Crossley, Gerard Love, Alison Mitchell and John Hogarty.  Guests include original member Annabel Wright (Aggi) and Norman Blake.  Two-thirds of To Rococo Rot (Stefan Schneider and Ronald Lippok) contribute and Tenniscoats too.  Kicking Leaves features a memorable string arrangement from Craig Armstrong, the Glasgow-based composer. It features a two drum sets approach to music, a love of elongated jams and the turnaround. 

Tracklisting is as follows:

1  Secret Music      

2  Night Time Made Us      

3  Check My Heart      

4  Summer Rain

5  After Image      

6  Kicking Leaves      

7  Wrong Light      

8  Slow Summits      

9  Come to the Dance 

We're sure that Slow Summits is going to leave a deep impression on 2013 and can't wait to bring it to you.

To coincide with its ten year anniversary, Domino is to reissue Four Tet’s seminal album, Rounds, on May 14th. The reissue will feature the album as well as a live set from Copenhagen recorded near the time of the original release. Listen to album track As Serious As Your Life, HERE.

Rounds will be available on 2 x CD (REWIGCD88), 2 x heavyweight LP featuring download codes plus the bonus disc on CD (REWIGLP88), plus on Digital (REWIG88D). Pre-order it through Dom Mart HERE. The tracklisting is as follows:

ROUNDS CD1

1 – Hands
2 – She Moves She
3 – First Thing
4 – My Angel Rocks Back And Forth
5 – Spirit Fingers
6 – Unspoken
7 – Chia
8 – As Serious As Your Life
9 – And They All Looked Broken Hearted
10 – Slow Jam

FOUR TET – LIVE IN COPENHAGEN (ROUNDS BONUS DISC)

1 – She Moves She
2 – Everything Is Alright
3 – Spirit Fingers
4 – Glue Of The World
5 – My Angel Rocks Back And Forth
6 – As Serious As Your Life
7 – Hands, No More Mosquitos, Calamine, Tangle

The wait is over as today is the release of the much anticipated new album from Ulrich Schnauss. A Long Way to Fall is available to order now on CD and deluxe gatefold double LP from the Domino Mart. All orders will receive a digital download of the album and the bonus I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance remix EP featuring remixes from Arovane, ASC, and Tycho. Stream the Tycho remix alongside the original version below: 

The nice folks at SPIN.com are streaming the album alongside a great interview with the electronic producer himself. Ulrich also recently contributed an exclusive drum and bass mix for XLR8R's podcast series.

Watch the most recent video for album track 'A Ritual in Time and Death' filmed by Anastasija Nikitina & Nat Urazmetova and featuring dancer Denisas Kolomyckis below: 

 Animal Collective is pleased to announce the premiere of their new music video for “Applesauce” via Pitchfork x YouTube. Directed by filmmaker Gaspar Noé (“Enter The Void,” “Irreversible”), the video stars Lindsey Wixson and features elements from Paul Sharits' 1968 short film “N:O:T:H:I:N:G”. It is intended to be viewed in complete darkness for maximum effect.

 “Applesauce” is the latest single from the band’s 10th album, Centipede Hz. The band’s first record since 2007’s Strawberry Jam to feature all four original band members, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin, Centipede Hz was hailed by critics as a return to the band’s experimental roots. The album can be ordered via the Animal Collective webstore here.

 Animal Collective is also heading back on the road this spring for their first North American tour of 2013. Joined by labelmate Dan Deacon, the band kicks off the tour in Boston on March 7th and finds Animal Collective traveling through Montreal, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, and more. Animal Collective is also making a very special appearance at the Treefort Music Festival in Boise, ID on March 24th to conclude their tour. The band will once again bring their impressive stage show on tour, which was aptly described by Pitchfork as “giant, gap-toothed Nickelodeon dentures on either side, a curved inflatable structure that resembled scorpion tails dipped in PAAS dye, a centralized TV running constant, blaring images. Basically, the cover of Centipede Hz gone widescreen.” Tickets for the shows can be purchased at: http://bit.ly/animaltix.

Animal Collective Tour Dates

(Ticket Links: http://bit.ly/animaltix)

3/7: Boston, MA @ House of Blues*
3/8: Montreal, QC @ Metropolis*
3/9: Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall*
3/11: Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues*
3/12: Covington, KY @ The Madison Theater*
3/13: Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works*
3/15: Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Hall*
3/16: Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre*
3/17: Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theatre*
3/18: Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
3/20: St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant*
3/21: Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theater*
3/22: Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre*
3/23: Salt Lake City, UT @ Depot*
3/24: Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Fest
5/23: Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
5/25: London, UK @ Field Day Festival
6/7-9:  New York, NY @ Governor’s Ball Music Festival
7/2: Helsinki, Finland @ The Circus
7/4: Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival
7/6: Gdynia, Poland @ Heineken Open'er Festival 

* w/Dan Deacon

Dan Deacon is to tour North America and Europe yet again in support of his most recent album America.

Shot over a three month tour this past autumn, the time-lapse based 'Guilford Avenue Bridge' video captures not only the American landscapes that inspired Deacon's songwriting for America but also gives a glimpse into his shows renowned spectacle of hundreds, even thousands, of jubilant people dancing about in coordinated movement. With the addition of his groundbreaking smartphone app which the band recently used on their network television debut performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Deacon has taken the concert experience to a whole new level. 

Watch the 'Guilford Avenue Bridge' video directed by Alan Resnick below:  

The 'Guilford Avenue Bridge' digital single comes backed with a live full band version recorded at influential non-commercial station the Current in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. Listen to the entire session here and buy the single here.   

Deacon will be joined on his February headlining European dates with his streamlined ensemble of two drummers -- Jeremy Hyman of Boredoms, Ponytail; Kevin O'Meara of Videohippos -- with America producer Chester Endersby Gwazda on electronics. His ensemble of two drummers will join him on their support dates with fellow Domino artists Animal Collective on their March North American tour.    

Dan Deacon tour dates:

02-08 Bristol, UK - The Fleece
02-09 Dublin, IE - Whelans
02-10 Belfast, IE - The Black Box
02-11 Glasgow, UK - Stereo
02-12 Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
02-13 London, UK - Village Underground
02-15 Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
02-16 Nantes, FR - Stereolux
02-18 Metz, FR - Les Trinitaires
02-19 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Rotown
02-20 Kortrijk, Belgium - De Kreun
02-21 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko
02-22 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow
02-23 Malmo, Sweden - Debaser
02-24 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall Atlas
02-26 Oslo, Norway - Revolver
02-27 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Slussen
02-28 Cophenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Jazzhouse
03-07 Boston, MA - House of Blues*
03-08 Montreal, QC - Metropolis*
03-09 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall*
03-11 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues*
03-12 Covington, KY - The Madison Theater*
03-13 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works*
03-15 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall*
03-16 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre*
03-17 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre*03-18 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*
03-20 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant*
03-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater*
03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre*
03-23 Salt Lake City, UT - Depot*
03-24 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest
04-20 North Adams, MA - Mass MoCA
04-27 New York, NY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 * w/Animal Collective

Animal Collective is heading back out on the road for their first North American tour of 2013. Joined by fellow labelmate Dan Deacon, the band kicks off the tour in Boston on March 7th and finds the band traveling through Montreal, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, and more.

The band also making a very special appearance at the Treefort Music Festival in Boise, ID on March 24th to cap off the tour. The band will once again bring their impressive stage show on tour, which was aptly described by Pitchfork as “giant, gap-toothed Nickelodeon dentures on either side, a curved inflatable structure that resembled scorpion tails dipped in PAAS dye, a centralized TV running constant, blaring images. Basically, the cover of Centipede Hz gone widescreen.” 

A pre-sale for non-festival dates will begin on Wednesday, January 16th at 10 a.m. local venue time. For early access to tickets and all the latest Animal Collective news, head here.

01-17 Newtown, NSW - Enmore Theatre

01-18 Sydney, NSW - Big Day Out #

01-20 Gold Coast, QLD - Big Day Out

01-23 Melbourne, VIC - Palace Theatre #

01-25 Adelaide, SA - Big Day Out

01-26 Melbourne, VIC - Big Day Out

01-28 Perth, WA - Big Day Out

03-07 Boston, MA - House of Blues*

03-08 Montreal, QC - Metropolis*

03-09 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall*

03-11 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues*

03-12 Covington, KY - The Madison Theater*

03-13 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works*

03-15 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall*

03-16 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre*

03-17 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre*

03-18 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*

03-20 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant*

03-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater*

03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre*

03-23 Salt Lake City, UT - Depot*

03-24 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest

07-02 Helsinki, Finland - The Circus

07-04 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival 

# w/Africa Hitech

* w/Dan Deacon

Photo credit by David Lictherman

Dirty Projectors debuted their latest video today for “Offspring are Blank” on Pitchfork x Youtube. Directed by Dirty Projectors frontman David Longstreth, the video is part of the "HI CUSTODIAN" short film series and will feature additional videos for “The Socialites” and “Swing Lo Magellan” to be released on Thursday and Fridayrespectively, as well as the previously released “About to Die” video. All videos can be found at Pitchfork’s YouTube channel.

The band is also happy to announce a special Los Angeles show on Feb. 5th at The Troubadour in Hollywood. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased HERE. The band will also play a previously announced Carnegie Hall date on January 11th. To commemorate Dirty Projectors' prestigious performance, the band is pressing a special “Offspring Are Blank” white label 7" single backed with the brand new song “There's A Fire.” Only 250 hand-numbered copies of the 7” will be pressed and will be exclusively sold at the New York performance.

 These special dates come as Dirty Projectors’ critically acclaimed Swing Lo Magellan continues to receive praise from across the critical spectrum, earning spots on year end lists from NPR, Spin, Rolling Stone, Time, Filter, Stereogum, and more.  Dirty Projectors frontman David Longstreth also received a Grammy nomination for “Best Recording Package” as the Art Director for the album. The package was designed in conjunction with long time collaborator Rob Carmichael at Seen Studio. Swing Lo Magellan is currently available for purchase on the Domino Records online store, including the last remaining copies of the DLX LP edition. 

Today, Ducktails is sharing The Flower Lane "Letter of Intent", which features vocals from Jessa Farkas and Ian Drennan of Big Troubles, today via Vogue. The song's release comes in conjunction with the annoucement of the album's record release show and European tour, the former of which will take place at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City on January 23rd and feature all of The Flower Lane's guest musicians performing the album in full. The European dates will see Ducktails touring as a full band, rather than Matt performing solo. "Letter of Intent" and pre-order the record below.

And you can listen to it in all its multi-layered loveliness right now here:

 There will also be an album release show at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City, USA on January 23^rd which will feature all of The Flower Lane's guest musicians performing the album in full.

The Flower Lane's large cast of guests include Daniel Lopatin (of Oneohtrix Point Never), Joel Ford (of Ford & Lopatin), Madeline Follin (of Cults), Sam Mehran (of Outer Limitz) and Jessa Farkas (of Future Shuttle), along with members of Mondanile's other band, Real Estate, and members of Big Troubles, who also serve as Mondanile's live band for performances. 

The Flower Lane is now available for pre-order on CD, LP + deluxe edition. It will feature an old-fashioned hand made sleeve AND 180 gram heavyweight vinyl. The deluxe pre-order edition is limited to a pressing of 300 copies. A non-letterpressed, 150GM standard edition LP will also be available. All immediately receive free downloads of "The Flower Lane" and "Letter of Intent"

All pre-orders immediately receive free downloads of The Flower Lane and Letter of Intent. Pre-order the record HERE.

We're honored to announce that this week Cass McCombs will be supporting John Cale on the west coast. See the dates below and listen to 'Empty Promises' below, previously only available on the Bradley Manning 7".

12-04 - Portland, OR - Mission Theatre *
12-06 - Seattle, WA - Showbox *
12-09 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom *
12-11 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey *

* w/ John Cale

All of us at Domino are super-excited to announce details of Villagers’ new album {Awayland}, which will be released on April 9th 2013 (North America) / January 14th 2013 (Rest of the world). 

{Awayland} is the follow up to the Mercury-nominated and Ivor Novello Award winning debut, Becoming a Jackal. Engineered, produced and mixed at Attica Audio in Donegal by Conor J. O’Brien and Villagers’ guitarist Tommy McLaughlin, the album will be released on CD, LP and digitally.

"Nothing Arrived" is a song of epic proportions and of much beauty, showcasing another side to the band's multifaceted, highly anticipated forthcoming album.  The accompanying video, directed by Alden Volney, documents a day in the life of one Terrence Bliss - a lonely office worker whose repetitive existence is momentarily disturbed. Watch it below or here.

While every instrument on Becoming a Jackal was performed almost entirely by songwriter Conor J. O'Brien on his own, {Awayland} is an entirely different beast, with O'Brien inviting his fellow touring partners to perform his songs as a group, allowing a certain level of collaborative inventiveness to inform the arrangements.

After initially beginning to write material for {Awayland} on his acoustic guitar, O'Brien felt he needed to take a new and different approach, "flip on its head the idea of what music is for myself," and began creating musical landscapes, listening to widescreen instrumental music like Lalo Schifrin and David Axelrod. There is a different kind of movement on {Awayland}, an exploration of what O'Brien felt was most important, yet not immediately obvious. Trees, birds, the sea - all recurring images in O'Brien's work that provide a kind of metaphor for living and dying, and the sense of soaring otherness. The record is possessed with playful joy as it is with devastation, a filtering of disparate influences - the quiet elegance of Nick Drake, and the sensuality of Curtis Mayfield. It is, as Kurt Vonnegut might have put it "intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd" (Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 6)- life, in other words.

Villagers are Conor O'Brien (vocals/guitar), Cormac Curran (keys), Danny Snow (bass), James Byrne (drums), and Tommy McLaughlin (guitar).

{Awayland} tracklisting

1. My Lighthouse
2. Earthly Pleasure
3. The Waves
4. Judgement Call
5. Nothing Arrived
6. The Bell
7. {Awayland}
8. Passing a Message
9. Grateful Song
10. In a Newfound Land You Are Free
11. Rhythm Composer

Here's the brand new video for 'Country Queen' from Night Moves' highly praised debut album Colored Emotions, out now. The track is today's free daily download over at eMusic. The band also announced a string of mid-west tour dates, kicking off this month on November 29 in Milwaukee. 

“Country Queen” video directed by Isaac Gale and David Jensen (Bon Iver, Colin Stetson, Polica):  

Night Moves is John Pelant (guitars/vocals), Micky Alfano (bass) and Mark Ritsema (multi-instrumentalist) and will be joined by drummer Jared Isabella for the tour.

Tour Dates

11-29 Milwaukee, WI - Stonefly           
11-30 Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups           
12-01 Indianapolis, IN - RadioRadio          
12-03 Columbia, MO - Mojo's           
12-04 St Louis, MO - Off Broadway           
12-05 Omaha, NE  - Slowdown           
12-06 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews (EARLY SHOW)           
12-07 Sioux Falls, SD - Latitude 44           
01-16 Chicago, IL - Tomorrow Never Knows Fest           

Stream Animal Collective's unreleased b-side 'Crimson' below from the new 'Applesauce' single out Nov. 13th. 'Applesauce' is the second single from the band's kinetic new album Centipede Hz and is available to pre-order on 10inch vinyl now on the Domino webstore. 

David Longstreth unveiled a new Dirty Projectors song via Twitter this morning titled 'While You're Here', a tribute to the late Gerard Smith of TV On The Radio. The song is featured on the band's new About To Die EP, out Nov. 6th. 

"Hey, here's a song I wrote on the day of Gerard Smith's wake in BK 2 summers ago. This song is for him. Miss u Gerry!" - Dave

Listen to the gorgeous track below and pre-order the 12" HERE. The EP features the Swing Lo Magellan standout single 'About To Die' plus 3 new songs. The 12inch comes with an MP3 downlaod of the EP plus two bonus tracks. 

We're happy to announce that Night Moves' debut album Colored Emotions is out today! Pick it up from the Domino Mart, your local indie record store, any fine digital retailer, or from the band's merch table!

The band are currently on the road with Lord Huron and will play a sold out hometown release show tonight at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. Full dates below.

Listen to 'Country Queen' below:

Here's what some fine folks have had to say about the album:

“The five-piece plays countrified rock with a freak-folk vocal style, and their organ and string arrangements spin their songs into mini-epics.” New Yorker

"cosmically expansive and yet twangily intimate" Spin

"The album's poppier tracks are woven together with songs that explore the band's capacity for atmosphere and mood, and the entire record sets one remarkably cohesive, hallucinatory tone." MPR's the Current

"has a psychedelic twist and controlled exuberance that shows off why Night Moves is an interesting band to keep on your radar. Guitars and synth soar to cosmic heights, but the vocals somehow remain down to earth" Magnet

Tour dates
10-16 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
10-18 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge *
10-19 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court *
10-20 Boise, ID - Neurolux *
10-21 Seattle, WA - Barboza *
10-22 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
10-24 San Francisco, CA - The Independent *
10-25 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite
10-26 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
10-27 Phoenix, AZ - Sail Inn
10-30 Lawrence, KS- Replay Lounge ^

* supporting Lord Huron
^ Young Prisms

Ducktails, the increasingly less "solo" endeavour of Real Estate's Matt Mondanile, is set to release The Flower Lane, which is the project's fourth album and his first for Domino. Recorded and mixed over the summer of 2012 with Al Carlson (Peaking Lights, Oneohtrix Point Never), as Mondanile's hectic schedule as a concurrent member of Real Estate began to wind down after a year in support of their Domino debut album, Days, the ten track album will hit the streets on January 29th to be preceded by the single release of effervescent pop gem, ‘Letter of Intent’.

You can hear the title track, 'The Flower Lane' right now:

Taking a tangential turn away from solo home-recording of past releases toward the more collaborative environment of the studio, Ducktails' Matt Mondanile roped in close friends and colleagues to make something more adventurous yet easy-going. The ten songs on The Flower Lane move across a range of expressive pop songs that are bright and expansive, but venture even further with forays into saxophone leads, synth lines and piano accompaniment that would have been at home on the early records of sophisticated guitar pop icons such as Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout.

With brooding seducers ‘Under Cover’, ‘The Flower Lane’ and ‘Sedan Magic’ along with a stunning cover of founding Clean/Chills member Peter Gutteridge's ‘Planet Phrom’, the ambient pop of The Flower Lane is, from start to finish, as spirited as the time these folks had recording it. Support came in many forms, from the backing of the New Jersey band Big Troubles to contributions from Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Joel Ford (Ford + Lopatin), Madeline Follin (Cults) and Sam Mehran (Outer Limitz), to name a few, The Flower Lane defies the cliché of "embracing the big studio" by successfully making the songs feel immediate on an emotional level after they've passed through the dozen other wizardly minds of the studio collaboration while still conveying the fun they had working together.

One of the standouts on The Flower Lane is the duet between Future Shuttle's Jessa Farkas and Big Trouble's Ian Drennan on ‘Letter of Intent’. As with Felt's ‘Primitive Painters’, where the contrasting voices of Lawrence Hayward and Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser exchange pained verses or with Tom Petty's seductively plodding collaboration with former Eurythmic Dave Stewart on his synth-driven hit ‘Don't Come Around Here No More’, ‘Letter Of Intent’ is proof of the expanding range of Ducktails' song craft.

Welcome to The Flower Lane:

1. Ivy Covered House
2. The Flower Lane 
3. Under Cover
4. Timothy Shy 
5. Planet Phrom 
6. Assistant Director 
7. Sedan Magic 
8. International Date Line 
9. Letter Of Intent 
10. Academy Avenue

German-born electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss is set to release his long-awaited new album, A Long Way To Fall, on Domino in North America and his own Scripted Realities imprint in the rest of the world in early 2013. His fourth album, A Long Way To Fall returns to the punchier rhythms and pronounced lead work of his landmark album, A Strangely Isolated Place, while incorporating some new textures and sounds from his earlier sonic explorations.

Schnauss explains:

Throughout the last decade, I recorded three albums that were trying to translate the early 90's shoegaze aesthetic into an electronic context.  After finishing the last album, Goodbye, I felt a need for a change of direction.  At the same time, my music taste was changing drastically.  While I had spent a couple of years mainly listening to songwriting based music (a lot of 'indie'/band-type stuff), I was now rediscovering my love for electronic music based on more open structures.  This provided the main inspiration of trying to record an album that would celebrate the synthesizer as the very capable musical instrument that it is, but without the need to disguise it behind a wall of echo and reverb.  What satisfies me the most about this album is that I think I've managed to create a record that has a coherent, cohesive narrative.

Download to the title track 'A Long Way To Fall' here.

'A Long Way To Fall' tracklisting:

1. Her And The Sea
2. Broken Homes
3. Like A Ghost In Your Own Life
4. A Long Way To Fall
5. I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance
6. A Forgotten Birthday
7. The Weight Of Darkening Skies
8. Borrowed Time
9. Ten Years
10. A Ritual In Time And Death

"Applesauce" is the second single from Animal Collective's kinetic new album Centipede Hz. The single, backed with non-album live favorite "Crimson", will be available on 10inch vinyl and digital on November 13th. Pre-order the 10inch today on the Domino webstore. Stream Applesauce HERE.
 
The band kicked off their NA tour in Seattle last week with a stunning sight-to-be-scene stage production and remain on tour through Oct 5th in New York. For ticket information visit: http://myanimalhome.net/tickets/. 

Animal Collective are also set to bring their powerful live performance into your living room via late night television. Tune in to TBS's Conan TONIGHT and NBC's Late Night W/ Jimmy Fallon on October 4th to watch the band perform songs from the new album.
 


Applesauce 10"
A) Applesauce
B) Crimson

LINKS
"Crimson" live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic: http://soundcloud.com/kcrw/animal-collective-crimson-live
"Wide Eyed" & "Pulleys" live acoustic on KEXP: http://soundcloud.com/kexp/animal-collective-live-on-kexp
"Father Time" & "Today's Supernatural" live video from Celebrate Brooklyn! Prospect Park 2011: MyAnimalHome.net

NA Tour Dates 
 
09-25 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues  *
09-27 Dallas, TX - House of Blues *
09-28 Austin, TX - The Backyard *
09-29 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues *
09-30 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle *
10-02 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion *
10-03 Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for the Performing Arts *
10-05 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Park *
* w/ Micachu and the Shapes

We're happy to announce the #DanDeaconAmerica flag photo contest with our friends at Aperture Magazine is underway. See the gallery of submissions here and find out how to enter to win a free flag from Aperture here!  To receive a 24" x 36" all-weather fabric flag featuring the America artwork purchase the album now or on its own from the Domino Mart or pick one up from the merch table at any of his upcoming shows.

However you get it, once your flag is in hand you have until the end of October to submit as many photos as you like in the #dandeaconamerica flag photo contest! There are a number of prizes including the grand prize of your image on the cover of a forthcoming Dan Deacon 'America' single among many others. Click here for more info.

Get in the game by uploading photos (with the flag!) to Instagram with the hashtag #dandeaconamerica!

While you're at his newly unveiled site, sign up for his email newsletter (on his site or below) to receive the latest Dan Deacon news.

HI CUSTODIAN, a Dirty Projectors short film featuring music from the band's critically acclaimed new album Swing Lo Magellan, premiered last night at New York City's prestigious Landmark Sunshine Cinema. The film, directed by Dave Longstreth himself and produced in collaboration with Pitchfork, is now available to view exclusively on Pitchfork.TV x YouTube. Watch it now:

Songwriter-director Longstreth described the film as "made out of a dream," adding, "it was so fun getting into these alternate personas, inhabiting them, and I think we came up with some amazing images."

HI CUSTODIAN stars band members David Longstreth, Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Nat Baldwin, and Mike Johnson. It was filmed over the course of five days in late April in several locations in Southern California. Inspired by music films like Kanye West's Runaway and Prince's Purple Rain, it follows band members as they inhabit a variety of characters in a surreal narrative about spiritual death and rebirth. Amber plays a lost and lonely searcher. David plays a yōkai, a shapeshifting undead spirit from Japanese folklore. Nat plays a truck driver as well as a newborn child. Amber and Haley also feature as girls from the British Midlands, as well as sister Fates in an unindividuated dyad.

The film features several recordings and alternate versions of songs from Swing Lo Magellan including "Offspring Are Blank", "About to Die", "Gun Has No Trigger", "See What She Seeing", "The Socialites" and "Just From Chevron" in addition to other new and unreleased music from the album sessions.

Happy Animal Collective Centipede Hz release week! In celebration of the new album the band has recorded a handful of radio sessions which will air all week on different stations. First up is KCRW's 'Morning Becomes Electric", which airs tomorrow (Sept 5) at 11:00AM PST LISTEN LIVE HERE. Check out the rest of the schedule below including SiriusXM U, World Cafe and KEXP.

WED Sept 5
KCRW's 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' session 
TIME: 11AM PST - LISTEN LIVE

SiriusXM U Session (subscribers only)
PREMIERE TIME: 9PM EST 
REPLAYS:
9/6 at 4PM EST
9/7 at 9AM EST
9/8 at 3PM EST
9/9 at noon EST
MORE INFO

FRI Sept 7 
WXPN / NPR World Cafe Session
TIME: Nationally synidicated, check HERE for your local broadcast schedule. 
MORE INFO

MON Sept 10
KEXP Seattle session
TIME: 1PM PST - LISTEN LIVE

Centipede Hz is available in stores now on CD, 2xLP and DELUXE 2xLP. Run to your local participating indie store this week to get a FREE 12" x 18" silver foil Centipede Hz poster while supplies last. Click HERE for a list of participating stores.

ORDER ONLINE FROM:
iTUNES | DOMINO | AMAZON 

With Dan Deacon's new album America out now, Dan is set to hit the road today for a series of live US dates.

Dan Deacon shows are renowned for the spectacle of hundreds, even thousands, of jubilant people doing coordinated movement. It's a sight to behold, but it's even more amazing to participate. Dan has taken it to a whole new level with a groundbreaking smartphone application (available now on the iTunes App Store and Google Play) that will be used during his tour beginning tonight!

Download the free Dan Deacon app now from the iTunes App Store or from Google Play

Inspired by audience-based cell phone interactive pieces Deacon performed over the past several years in various settings from Baltimore to Carnegie Hall, this groundbreaking app truly makes the audience part of every show.

Dan developed an application with the help of the folks at Wham City Lights, without the use of WiFi or cellular data, turns each phone into a source of synchronized light and sound depending on your location within each venue. A device once thought of as a distraction now turns each show into an ecstatic act of empowerment by turning every concert into a collective one-of-a-kind immersive concert experience.

See it is in use on the upcoming US dates that start tonight. See the full list of tour dates here.