Matador have announced the signing of Californian hardcore punks Ceremony. Listen to “Sick” MP3 (taken from the Ronhert Park album) below.
http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/ceremony/ceremony_sick.mp3
Rohnert Park, the 3rd album from Northern California’s Ceremony wasn’t merely one of our favorites of 2010, it also represented one of those moments where we wonder aloud, “can you imagine what these guys will do next?”. For now we know there’s going to be a new album recorded this autumn, released in the first half of 2012 and beyond that, we expect to be as surprised as you (albeit a little earlier).
Big Smile called Rohnert Park, “one of the best hardcore punk albums of the new decade, a testament to punk’s relevance in the American Apocalypse and to classic hardcore’s endurance as a form of pop in it’s own right”, a statement that feels less like hyperbole and something closer to a truism after living with that record in our heads over the past year.
The announcement of Ceremony’s signing to Matador also coincides with the band’s swan song for Bridge 9, a 6-song 12″ EP/CD/digital EP entitled ‘Covers’. Songs by Pixies, Crisis and Wire are reinterpreted by Ceremony on this collection of outtakes from the ‘Rohnert Park’ sessions. Bridge Nine are taking pre-orders starting today.
Ceremony finish their current US tour shortly then head over to Europe, where they play Hevy Festival in the UK on August 7th, a full list of dates are below:
July
Friday — 1 — Brooklyn, NY — 538 Johnson Ave
Saturday — 2 — Baltimore, MD — Charm City Art Space
Sunday — 3 — Philadelphia, PA — The Barbary
Sunday — 3 — Philadelphia, PA — Philly Punx Pinic at Blockley Pourhouse
Friday — 22 — Santa Barbara, CA — Sound And Fury Festival
Sunday — 24 — Rokycany, CZ — Fluff Fest
Monday — 25 — Wein, AT — Arena
Tuesday — 26 — Munchen, DE — Feierwerk
Wednesday — 27 — Stuttgart, DE — Juha West
Thursday — 28 — Zurich, CH — Dynamo Werk 21
Friday — 29 — Koln, DE — Underground
Saturday — 30 — Mol, BE — Breakout Fest
August
Sunday — 1 — Hannover, DE — Bei Chez Heinz
Monday — 2 — Hamburg, DE — Hafenklang
Tuesday — 3 — Berlin, DE — Hafenklang
Wednesday — 4 — Fredericia, DK — Fredericia Hardcore Festival
Thursday — 5 — Leisnig, DK — Sucks’n’Summer
Friday — 6 — Brugge, BE — JH Comma
Sunday — 7 —Port Lympne, UK — Hevy Fest
