Pitchfork

Baltimore-based squeaky-voice manipulator Dan Deacon has revealed the cover for Bromst, his Spiderman of the Rings follow-up, and it is on some creepy Blair Witch-type shit. The album is finally due March 24 on Carpark, after a few delays. When Deacon talked to Pitchfork about the album last May, he described it as a "much darker" affair. But given that 99.9% of albums are darker than Spiderman of the Rings, that's a pretty vague descriptor. So come March, we'll find out just how dark an album can possibly be while still including a song with the title "Surprise Stefani". Here's the tracklist:

01 Build Voice
02 Red F
03 Paddling Ghost
04 Snookered
05 Of the Mountains
06 Surprise Stefani
07 Wet Wings
08 Woof Woof
09 Slow With Horns / Run for Your Life
10 Baltihorse
11 Get Older

Deacon debuted material from the album at a December 11 show at Brooklyn's Masonic Temple, for which he enlisted the services of a large live band featuring all four members of Brooklyn's So Percussion alongside various hyperactive nu-Baltimore dudes from Ponytail, Double Dagger, Ecstatic Sunshine, and Future Islands. As of now, the only tour dates Deacon has lined up are in Australia and New Zealand:

02-19 - 02-23 New Zealand - TBA
02-26 Sydney, Australia - TBA
02-27 Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory (Summer Tones)
02-28 Melbourne, Australia - The Espy (Summer Tones)
03-05 Melbourne, Australia - The Tote
03-06 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo (Summer Tones)
03-07 Meredith, Australia - Golden Plains Festival
03-08 Perth, Australia - Perth Festival