When Bodies of Water’s Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink was released independently on the band’s own 1000 Tongues imprint it was rightfully met with rabid acclaim. Before long, Secretly Canadian got wise and jumped in to sign the band, resulting in a redistribution of said debut album and the discharge of forthcoming sure-to-be-super-duper new album A Certain Feeling on July 22. We are not into referencing but there may be reason for being excited; any PR gush that name-drops Upsetters, Steve Reich, ESG, Velvets, an imaginary Morricone/Spector score collaboration, Wagner, Sabbath, musique concrète, and five-time tropicalia has to be good. After hearing the album, we have to admit that all of the above is true but the label forgot to mention Starship, the Like Mike soundtrack, new rave, Chris de Burgh's "Lady in Red," a Gap commercial song montage, B.O.C., "The Bartman," grime, and "Jingle Cats." Believe the hype!
I've got a certain feeling that this is the song list for A Certain Feeling. I also have a certain feeling that that line you just read sucked.
1. Gold, Tan, Peach, and Grey
2. Under the Pines
3. Only You
4. Water Here
5. Keep Me On
6. Darling, Be Here
7. Even in a Cave
8. If I Were a Bell
9. The Mud Gapes Open
Regardless of any possible metamorphoses Bodies of Water may have undergone from first to second record, or will undergo from song to song, the band will assuredly still be a live spectacle of the highest order, with members perched on the stage full-throatingly testifyin' and singing pop psalms as only they can. Their next clump of dates is bookended by two dates in Bodies of Water's hometown, Los Angeles, where the spectacularly overpaid and underproducing superstar Andruw Jones plays Major League Baseball (that %$#&ing bum! -- Dodger fan)
07.17.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo #
08.06.08 - Madison, Wisconsin - Café Montmartre $
08.07.08 - Chicago, Illinois - Schubas $
08.08.08 - Cleveland, OH - The Grog Shop %
08.09.08 - Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo $
08.10.08 - Montréal, Quebec - Le Divan Orange $
08.12.08 - Cambridge, MA - The Middle East Upstairs $
08.13.08 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge $
08.15.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall $
08.16.08 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s $
08.17.08 - Washington, DC - Black Cat Backstage $
08.18.08 - Columbus, OH - Café Bourbon St. Annex $
08.19.08 - Indianapolis, IN - Locals Only $
08.23.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Sunset Junction Street Festival
09.02.08 - Vancouver, British Columbia - The Media Club ^
09.03.08 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey ^
09.04.08 - Portland, OR - Holocene (Musicfest NW) *
09.05.08 - Salem, OR - IKE Box ^
09.07.08 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill +
09.08.08 - San Luis Obispo, CA - SLO Art Center +
09.09.08 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah +
09.10.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo +
# record release show w/Seasons and The Henry Clay People
$ Port O'Brien
% Parts & Labor and Port O'Brien
^ Karl Blau
* Deerhunter
+ Throw Me the Statue
