Dan Deacon announces new album: America

By Alex Young on May 31st, 2012 in New Music, News

The Baltimore electronic manic Dan Deacon is back with his first song in three years, which also marks his debut release as a member of Domino Records. Stream the noisy and heavy “Lots” below.

Update: The track will appear on Deacon’s new studio album, America, due out August 28th. An issued press release offers many more details (the tracklist can also be found below):

America is Dan Deacon’s most powerful work to date, the culmination of years spent playing both DIY venues and concert halls across the world, of exercises in the power of the individual and a coordinated mass, of a disenfranchised mind questioning notions of cultural identity and values.

The ecstatic, celebratory sounds found on America, are in compelling contrast with the darker thematic undercurrents.  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.

There’s a subtler approach to timbre on America, informed by Deacon’s recent experiences in the classical world – commissions and collaborations, his Carnegie Hall debut; his first film score (for a Francis Ford Coppola film). The integration of acoustic textures – including concert percussion, winds, brass, and strings — has ramped up exponentially since Deacon first ventured outside of purely synthesized sound on 2009′s Bromst.

The most raw cut from the album, “Lots,” seems a fitting introduction to a collection of songs that sit at the intersection of noise, pop, dance and chamber music. Filled with the struggle and opportunity rampant in Deacon’s America, “Lots” lyrics bounce between a post-apocalyptic world influenced by Cormac McCathy’s The Road and a call not to lose sight of the current movements that aim to change a broken system.

America Tracklist:
01. Guilford Avenue Bridge
02. True Thrush
03. Lots
04. Prettyboy
05. Crash Jam
06. USA I: Is a Monster
07. USA II: The Great American Desert
08. USA III: Rail
09. USA IV: Manifest

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