This Friday, Sharp Pins share Balloon Balloon Balloon, which we named our Album Of The Week. Now, Kai Slater’s other band Lifeguard are back to announce an 11-track, 13-minute maxi-single called “Ultra Violence” / “Appetite,” which arrives next year. The first track “Ultra Violence” is out now.
The release follows June’s Ripped And Torn LP, which we also named our Album Of The Week. About this maxi-single, the Chicago band says:
Recorded in Lifeguard’s Stulogulo, newly equipped with actually terrifying faces and friendly heroine carpet, plugged straight into the 8-track machine with the aid of the Dub soldiers, dirty mixing pots and Echoplexes, Lifeguard deliver these 11 tracks in under 15 minutes; 7 inches of LP-oriented fast and automatic music free from lingering, processing, over-thinking, or otherwise staving off release. The fully deterritorialized Ripped And Torn; the ripping and tearing of the band-aid.
This dub-abrasion Maxi-single is Lithographed for the new generation of cylinders. A thin Round wax prism carries that 30-second-torch of what shan’t be considered afterthoughts, rather deliberate bursts scaffolding: ULTRA VIOLENCE and APPETITE.
Hear “Ultra Violence” below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Ultra Violence”
02 “Cuneiform”
03 “500K Foot Drum”
04 “Blatant Dub I”
05 “Manhunt I”
06 “Appetite”
07 “Manhunt II (Vogue A Go Go)”
08 “Blatant Dub II”
09 “Cuneiform II”
10 “Manhunt III”
11 “Steal Everything”
TOUR DATES:
11/14 – Chicago, US @ Thalia Hall $
11/15 – Cleveland, US @ Beachland Ballroom $
11/22 – Brooklyn, US @ Brooklyn Paramount $
11/24 – Boston, US @ Paradise Rock Club $
11/25 – Montreal, CA @ Club Soda $
11/27 – Toronto, CA @ The Concert Hall $
11/28 – Buffalo, US @ Nietzsche’s $
11/29 – Woodstock, US @ Bearsville Theatre $
$ w/ bar italia
“Ultra Violence” / “Appetite” is out next year via Matador. Pre-order it here.
