The Altered Hours just released their urgent new EP ‘On My Tongue’ on Art For Blind/Penske Recordings, we have the premiere for the excellent video for the title track above. Scratchy, gritty, trashy and bruised by reverb, in its own way, this is redolent of the visceral urgency of Iggy & The Stooges colliding all arms and legs with the fuzzy rushing racket of early Sonic Youth, but its also not at all. These serrated edged riffs, thudding baselines, tangled boy/girl melodies, this is the muffled racket from the party next door. It’s the brief rush from the night before that you regret in the morning. The video is no less impressive, a blue screen, daubed in pop art imagery and DIY instructions:
To celebrate the release of the new EP, the band start a European tour today, including a headline show at The Shacklewell Arms in London on 13 March.
Full dates:
09 March – Picture House Social – Sheffield, UK – TICKETS
10 March – Night & Day Cafe – Manchester, UK – TICKETS
11 March – Hy-Brasil Music Club – Bristol, UK – TICKETS
13 March – The Shacklewell Arms – London, UK – TICKETS
15 March – La Cave Aux Poete – Lille, France – TICKETS
16 March – Supersonic – Paris, France – TICKETS
18 March – Sedel – Ebikon, Switzerland – TICKETS
19 March – Mortelwerk – Leipzig, Germany – TICKETS
20 March – 8mm – Berlin, Germany – TICKETS
22 March – L’Officina – Teramo, Italy
23 March – Astro Club – Pordenone, Italy
24 March – TNT – Ancona, Italy
25 March – Moog – Ravenna, Italy
29 March – DBD Vevue – Dublin, Ireland – TICKETS
30 March – Regional Cultural Centre – Letterkenny, Ireland – TICKETS
31 March – Menagerie – Belfast, UK – TICKETS
13 April – It Takes A Village Festival – Trabolgan, Co. Cork, Ireland – TICKETS
