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August 12, 2009

New Le Loup - "Beach Town"

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Following the pretty but relatively pared down electro-acoustic tunes of their debut The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, seven-member BTW Le Loup are taking their album title and sounds in different directions: a pithier LP name (Family), and according to the press release trumpeting its arrival, a slightly expanded, more band-oriented sound. Lead MP3 "Beach Town" certainly sounds more organic, full with a humid jungle groove and bassline, polyrhythmic hand drums, with electronics, faraway vocal hollers, and ascending guitar lines giving it all a sense of ambiance, lilt, and lift. Musky.

Le Loup - "Beach Town" (MP3)

Family is out 9/22 via Hardly Art. (That up there is its album cover.) Le Loup will be supporting it with a tour, which you can catch at these dates:

10/09 - Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar ^
10/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kungfu Necktie ^
10/11 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge ^
10/13 - Cambridge, MA @ TT the Bear's ^
10/14 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore ^
10/15 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel ^
10/16 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas ^
10/17 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry ^
10/18 - Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr. ^
10/19 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive ^
10/20 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court ^
10/22 - Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret ^
10/23 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey ^
10/25 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge ^
10/27 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill ^
10/28 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo ^
10/29 - Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar ^
10/30 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah ^
10/31 - Tucson, AZ @ Plush ^
11/02 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk ^
11/03 - Dallas, TX @ Cavern Ale House ^
11/05 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn ^
11/06 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 ^
11/07 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat ^

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This is plain groovy. I loved their first album; really underrated/overlooked. This might just be another nice addition.

Posted by: David Mania at 08/12/09 11:13 PM  | Reply
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