Entitled ‘23′ (nothing to do with the Jim Carrey movie that’s seemingly being panned everywhere), and out on 4AD, it’s in keeping with their label’s recent quality output - TV On The Radio’s ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’, Beirut’s ‘The Gulag Orkestar’ and Scott Walker’s ‘The Drift’. We’ve got a copy here at Line Of Best Fit towers and it’s rather lovely.
Recorded and produced by Blonde Redhead in New York City late last-year, they enlisted the help of Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio) to engineer and Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Killers, Nine Inch Nails) and Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Bloc Party) to share mixing duties.
The album is released on April 16th 2007 over here and they’re playing their first shows in the UK in May…
May 2007
24th Manchester Academy 3
26th Glasgow Oran Mor
27th Nottingham Dot To Dot Festival
29th Bristol Thekla
30th London KoKo
Blonde Redhead also play the 4AD showcase at this year’s SXSW Festival (if any of you are out there) at Emos on the 14th of March. Also on that bill are Beirut, Emma Pollock, The Mountain Goats and Wolf & Cub.
You can download the title track here.
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