Dan Deacons New Album America Out in August

Everyone favorite bearded-entertainer, one-man electro showman, and Francis Ford Coppola collaborator has a brand new album. Dan Deacon —the Baltimore musician behind such delirious LPs as 2007's Spiderman of the Rings and 2009's Bromst will release his ninth full-length on the 28 of August, via Domino.

The album is called America. As provocation, not patriotism. The press-release for the record offers: "the album demonstrates anger, confusion, and apocalyptic anxiety over corporatism and war, but finds consolation in the geography of the United States and in recent social movements both domestic and international."

The record finds Deacon employing a range of acoustic instruments —guitars, brass, strings, woodwinds— and moving away from the brash sound of Bromst. "The A-side is all pop songs; it's all killer no filler," Deacon told me last year, of the then-in-the-works album. "The B-side is one 20-minute piece divided into five movements and there's no pop song structure; it's a lot of development over time. It's both my poppiest and most experimental record."

The first single from America, "Lots," can be downloaded at the Dan Deacon website. Deacon has a handful of festival appearances and a European toured for September lined up, but expect plenty more tour dates before 2012 is out.

America Track List:
1. "Guilford Avenue Bridge"
2. "True Thrush"
3. "Lots"
4. "Prettyboy"
5. "Crash Jam"
6. "USA I: Is a Monster"
7. "USA II: The Great American Desert"
8. "USA III: Rail"
9. "USA IV: Manifest"

Tour Now and Sunrise:
July 7: Des Moines, IA - 80/35 Festival
July 12: New York, NY - Pier 84
July 14: Cincinatti, OH - Bunbury Music Festival
July 21: Antigonish, NS - Evolve Festival
September 1: Chicago, IL - North Coast Music Festival
September 7: Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
September 19: Prague, Czech Republic - Meet Factory
September 20: Berlin, Germany - Festsall Kreuzberg
September 21: Hamburg, Germany - Reepers
September 22: Eindehoven, Netherlands - Area 51
September 23: Amsterdam, Netherlands - Bitterzoet
September 24: Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
September 25: Paris, France - Le Trebando
September 26: London, England - Scala
September 28: Manchester, England - Islington Mill
September 29: Brighton, England - The Haunt