The Twilight Sad have signed to Mogwai‘s record company, Rock Action. Today they have unveiled their first new music, a single entitled ‘I/m Not Here [missing face].’
The single sees the band marry the motorik of progressive German rock to the classical French piano work of Erik Satie. The band’s Andy MacFarlane explains: “I was attempting to play ‘Ogives’ by Erik Satie, but I’m really shit at the piano so it didn’t happen, but I came up with the music using those chord shapes. So from my perspective, it’s a bad cover version of that piece of music.”
Fresh from supporting The Cure, the band’s tour takes in North America, mainland Europe before finishing up at Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms on November 29. The dates are as follows:
Oct 9th Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
Oct 10th San Diego, CA – Casbah
Oct 12th Tustin, CA – Marty’s On Newport
Oct 14th San Francisco, CA – Independent
Oct 17th Portland, OR – Doug Fir
Oct 19th Seattle, WA – Crocodile
Oct 20th Vancouver, BC – Fox
Oct 25th St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
Oct 26th Chicago, IL – Theater on the Lake
Oct 27th Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
Oct 28th Montreal, QC – Ritz
Oct 30th Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs
Nov 1st Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
Nov 2nd Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
Nov 3rd Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall
Nov 10th Paris, FR – Point FMR
Nov 11th Wiesbaden, DE – Sclachthof
Nov 12th Munich, DE – Ampere
Nov 13th Vienna, AT – Chelsea
Nov 15th Berlin, DE – Musik & Frieden
Nov 16th Hamburg, DE – Molotow
Nov 17th Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Nov 18th Brussels, BE – Botanique
Nov 27th London, UK – Bush Hall
Nov 29th Edinburgh, UK – Liquid Rooms
