What One Becomes out June 10th
from Thrill Jockey
"...an even deeper exploration of anxiety, pain, claustrophobia and uncertainty, with five colossal tracks that split the difference between metal’s visceral, primal power and the elegant abstraction of avant garde composition." - Treble
"Luminaries of the heavy, Sumac tend to keep their sun-less songs long and deliberately paced for a reason: to give you as much time as possible to absorb the weight of theirosmium-dense catalog." - Seattle Stranger
"Luminaries of the heavy, Sumac tend to keep their sun-less songs long and deliberately paced for a reason: to give you as much time as possible to absorb the weight of theirosmium-dense catalog." - Seattle Stranger
As they prepare for the release of their new full-length What One Becomes, due out June 10th, powerhouse trio SUMAC will tour the Western portion of the United States starting tomorrow and running through June 4th. The tour will take the band, which features Aaron Turner (Mamiffer, Old Man Gloom, Isis), Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), Brian Cook (Russian Circles, Botch, These Arms Are Snakes), through Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas - check out the full tour routing below. Furthermore, SUMAC have posted a West Coast tour video trailer which is viewable here.
What One Becomes was tracked at The Unknown in Anacortes, WA and mixed at GodCity Studios in Salem, MA with Kurt Ballou and the resulting five-song, hour-long LP is a dense aggregate of rhythm, force, and vigor. The album’s first single, “Rigid Man” (streaming now on YouTube), begins as a lurching epithet that finds the trio in a shadow boxing lockstep for the song’s first half of pugilistic rhythm and noise, only to smash itself on the ground amidst a diabolical feedback whorl from Turner’s guitar and to tear free from the rhythmic underbelly. Sumac channels psychic distress into their rigorously algebraic maneuvers and syllable-crack dissonance. The songwriting on What One Becomes is unparalleled, unhinged expressionism in all forms.
SUMAC - ON TOUR:
May 20 Bellingham, WA @ The Shakedown
May 21 Seattle, WA @ The Black Lodge
May 22 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar
May 23 Eugene, OR @ The Boreal
May 24 Ashland, OR @ Club 66
May 26 Chico, CA @ TBA
May 27 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
May 28 Sacramento, CA @ Starlite Lounge
May 29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Complex
May 30 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
May 31 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister
June 1 El Paso, TX @ Bowie Feathers
June 3 Austin, TX @ Sidewinder
June 4 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
SUMAC, What One Becomes Track Listing:
1. Image of Control
2. Rigid Man
3. Clutch of Oblivion
4. Blackout
5. Will to Reach
1. Image of Control
2. Rigid Man
3. Clutch of Oblivion
4. Blackout
5. Will to Reach
* top photo by Faith Coloccia
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