Dirty Projectors lose Angel, announce big tour w/ Wye Oak & Purity Ring (2012 dates, presale & new LP info)

Dave Longstreth @ Bowery Ballroom, 2009 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Not only is it now confirmed that Wye Oak & Purity Ring are the openers of Dirty Projectors‘ upcoming show at the Prospect Park Bandshell, the date is just one night on a big summer tour for Dirty Projectors that starts in Toronto on July 6th and ends in Philadelphia on August 18th (which means maybe it really ends at a TBA 2nd NYC show??). A presale is going on now for all just-announced dates which are listed below. Some of the dates are with Wye Oak, Some with Purity Ring. Some with both

As previously posted, DP released a new song on to the Internet, and that song comes from their new album Swing Lo Magellan which is out July 10 in the U.S. and July 9 internationally via Domino. A press release reads:

“It’s an album of songs, an album of songwriting,” says Longstreth.

The songs of Swing Lo Magellan are culled from a sprawling twelve months of constant writing and recording in a weird house in Delaware County, New York (four hours northwest of the city). Longstreth, who produced and mixed, wrote seventy new songs and beats. The band — Amber Coffman (vocals & guitar), Nat Baldwin (Bass), Brian McOmber (Drums) & Haley Dekle (vocals) – – joined him periodically, rehearsing the new music more or less constantly in the house’s A-frame attic (vocalist Angel Deradoorian is on hiatus). The twelve songs of Swing Lo Magellan were winnowed down from about forty finished demos….

The full tracklist is with all the dates below….

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Swing Lo Magellan:
01 Offspring Are Blank
02 About to Die
03 Gun Has No Trigger
04 Swing Lo Magellan
05 Just From Chevron
06 Dance for You
07 Maybe That Was It
08 Impregnable Question
09 See What She Seeing
10 The Socialites
11 Unto Caesar
12 Irresponsible Tune

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Dirty Projectors — 2012 Tour Dates
07-05 Ottawa, Ontario – Ottawa Blues Fest
07-06 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Hall *
07-07 Montreal, Quebec – Club Soda *
07-08 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club *
07-10 Brooklyn, NY – Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park *^
07-11 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls *
07-13 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival *
07-14 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater *
07-15 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue *
07-17 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant ^
07-18 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater ^
07-20 Denver, CO – Bluebird Nightclub ^
07-21 Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue ^
07-23 Seattle, WA – Showbox ^
07-24 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore ^
07-25 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom ^
07-27 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^
07-28 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern ^
07-29 San Diego, CA – House of Blues ^
07-31 Marfa, TX – The Crowley Theatre ^
08-02 Austin, TX – Emo’s East ^
08-03 Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater ^
08-04 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues ^
08-06 Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theatre
08-07 Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
08-09 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
08-10 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
08-11 Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre
08-13 Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom
08-14 Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
08-15 Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom
08-16 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club ^
08-18 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer ^

* with Purity Ring
^ with Wye Oak