New Album "Lobes" + Tour = ๐๐๐ญ
Announcing LOBES and SHOW LOBES and all that they imply
Thatโs the cover of โLobes,โ our eighth studio album.
Itโs crazy to even write that. Eight! Children get their hands slapped with rulers for daring to scribble โeight albumsโ in creative writing class.
๐ฅต๐ ๐คช๐ฅต๐ ๐คช๐ฅต๐ ๐คช๐ฅต๐ ๐คช๐ฅต๐ ๐คช
The truly remarkable thing โย and of course we would say this, of course we would, but we swear to our liege-god Crom itโs 100% true as far as we can tell โ this is absolutely the best one. Like, we finished this thing many months ago, and it still gives us stand-up hairs on our arms when we listen to it with headphones.
But of course we would say that. Weโll go to the mats and fight it out when youโve heard the whole splendid thing. Right now, certain facts have emerged:
โLobesโ comes out January 20th, 2023.
You can pre-order it now at this internet web drive (terminology?).
Today weโre posting new U.K. tour dates for February (a sort of dance partner to the March/April tour weโre lavishing on Europe). These U.K. shows go on sale Friday, with a presale starting Wednesday for anyone who pre-orders โLobesโ (S.D.I.R. paid subscribers will also get access!). You can find links to the venue websites here, but first check out this very handsome poster:
January. February. April. It feels like a long time! Hell, it is a long time. The giant Sunda rat, endemic to Sumatra and often weighing in at a whopping 600 grams (about as much as a medium-size block of cheddar), punches the clock after just one year of life! Why, a baby Sunda rat is gestated in just three weeks! (Did you know this blog was also about nature??) That means that a Sunda rat born today will be deep into middle age by the time he comes to see The Show Lobes Tour.
Not you, though. Youโll be all fired up by an Autumn โ22 full of lots more music, video, and prose (from us), and Avatar: Way of Water (from Cameron). So buck up. Go pre-order a copy of the vinyl, or a tarot card deck (yeah, weโve got decks). Stay strong for us, and we will stay strong for you. And remember what Spielberg always says: โJaws got me where I am, but itโs peanut butter that motivates me.โ (Paraphrasing from memory.)
Much sax, and talk to you soon,
Keith & Chris ๐ท
AWWWW YEAH
I had no idea how much I wanted to read the words "dark, electronic pop sound" in the same sentence as "We Are Scientists". This is gonna be great!
I was supposed to be at the Sheffield gig but covid was a sod and then the new date was when it was out of the country so I am v v v v happy there's another tour so soon ๐ฅฐ