Pitchfork: Portastatic Covers Hot Chip on Digital EP

Portastatic Covers Hot Chip on Digital EP
"And I was a boy from S-u-u-u-u-perchunk"

Mac McCaughan's umpteenth album as Portastatic, Be Still Please, comes out October 10 via his own Merge Records, but the release is preceded by a digital EP that is already available from the Merge website.

The Sour Shores EP has four songs, including the title track and its acoustic demo, non-album track "Portraits From Before the War", and a cover of Hot Chip's "And I Was a Boy From School" (!). As if that song could get any more emo!

Portastatic will play one date in Montreal during Pop Montreal (where McCaughan will also be a panelist at the Future of Music Policy Summit) before heading out on a U.S. tour with Jennifer O'Connor on October 11. Happy sailing!

Sour Shores EP tracklist:

01 Sour Shores
02 And I Was a Boy From School
03 Portraits From Before the War
04 Sour Shores (acoustic demo)

Dates:

10-05 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa (Pop Montreal)
10-11 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar *
10-12 Allston, MA - Great Scott *
10-13 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
10-14 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *
10-15 New Haven, CT - BAR Nightclub *
10-18 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
10-19 Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse *
10-20 Mt. Pleasant, SC - Village Tavern *
10-21 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *

* with Jennifer O'Connor