This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket
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THIS WILL DESTROY YOU TUNNEL BLANKET In any relationship, it’s often what’s not said that lingers longest, taken from an encounter and rendered indelible. Texan four-piece This Will Destroy You realize this better than most instrumental outfits, peppering their material with dialogue that’s no slave to language, to vowels and tongues. It’s communica- tion without bounds, expressive and emotive and, most importantly of all, TRACKLISTING 1. Little Smoke highly memorable. 2. Glass Realms 3. Communal Blood Tunnel Blanket is the group’s second long-player. It follows a well-received 4. Reprise eponymous debut of 2008, a record that earned the band many an attractive 5. Killed the Lord, Left comparison to post-rockers who, for the sake of the past being just that, will for the New World remain nameless here. But to This Will Destroy You – founding guitarists Chris 6. Osario King and Jeremy Galindo, bassist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore – 7. Black Dunes the parallels were not so welcomed. Their sound world was theirs alone to 8. Powdered Hand inhabit, any coincidences just that. So, for album two, a new direction was inevitable, ties binding them to any scene tossed and forgotten. Catalog #: SSQ093 Tunnel Blanket delivers the epic-in-scope soundscapes that followers of its Street Date: May 10, 2011 makers’ previous recordings are accustomed to, but presents them in new Genre: Rock lights – where once the sun shone down bright upon immediate tropes and traits, now their work is better suited to distant starlight, casting changeable Format: CD/2xLP/DIGITAL shadows across vistas of inspired, ambitious amplification. This is not an Not Exportable to Europe / UK album to pick through in search of bold hooks and instant melodies. It is an ever-shifting, always moving work, which seems to evolve before the listener – Packaging: Digipak CD spidery guitar lines feeling their way forth like vines scrambling up trunks in CD Box Lot Qty: 30 time-lapse photography. 8 0 3 2 3 8 0 0 9 3 2 2 + 2xLP DELUXE VINYL VERSION PRESSED ON 180 GRAM VINYL, GATEFOLD JACKET - COMES WITH A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD COUPON Packaging: Gatefold 2xLP 2xLP (Deluxe 180 gram) + 2 FULL U.S. TOURS MINIMUM TO SUPPORT THIS RELEASE. FIRST TOUR 2xLP Box Lot Qty: 25 KICKS OFF IN TEXAS ON MAY 12, 2011. PREVIOUS SUPPORT TOURS Non-returnable INCLUDE AUTOLUX, AND DEFTONES + PRINT / ONLINE PUBLICITY BY GIRLIE ACTION MEDIA. PREVIOUS RELEASE 8 0 3 2 3 8 0 0 9 3 1 5 WAS COVERED IN VICE MAGAZINE, EXCLAIM, MAXIM, ALARM PRESS, PITCHFORK, DECIBEL MAGAZINE, ETC. Exclusively distributed by SC distribution + PRODUCED BY JOHN CONGLETON (MODEST MOUSE, BILL CALLAHAN, Phone: (812) 335-1572 Fax: (812) 323-8494 BLACK MOUNTAIN) US domestic sales contact + TOP 5 MARKETS INCLUDE: NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, Jacqui Refice <[email protected]> DALLAS, CHICAGO International sales contact Evan Whikehart <[email protected]> Suicide Squeeze Records PO Box 80511, Seattle, WA. 98108 www.suicidesqueeze.net.