Pitchfork

Deerhoof-- the answer to that age-old question, "What would a Rockestra-like jam consisting of the Plastic Ono Band with Yoko singing Björk, The Who, The Melvins, and your four year-old daughter sound like?"-- are releasing a brand new album on 5RC, the experimental sister label of Kill Rock Stars, on March 18th. Entitled Apple O', the band's fourth LP follows last year's outstanding Reveille, which ranked #19 on Pitchfork's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2002.

n According to the label, which has made an MP3 of the track "Sealed With a Kiss" available for download at their website, we can expect no less than "rock and roll" from the band this time around: "Apple O' finds our favorite foursome in the mood for love: Never have they sounded more passionate, more raw, or more romantic. The songcraft is simply stunning, even by Deerhoof standards. Dance, weep, and sing along as Adam + Eve dine on apples while candlelight flickers, bombs explode, panda bears shake pink tamborines..." If you would humor us for a moment, try to imagine someone dancing, weeping and singing to Deerhoof all at the same time, and then wonder if perhaps they're maybe expecting just a bit too much emotion from their fans. But hey, if the album's even almost as weird as we're thinking it will be, you just. Never. Know. Tracklist:

n 01 Dummy Discards a Heart
02 Heart Failure
03 Sealed with a Kiss
04 Flower
05 My Diamond Star Car
06 Apple Bomb
07 The Forbidden Fruits
08 L'Amour Stories
09 Dinner for Two
10 Panda Panda Panda
11 Hayley and Homer
12 Adam+Eve Connection
13 Blue Cash

n Deerhoof will play a one-off set with Tussle on March 14th in San Francisco (page down a bit for more info on those wacky kidz), and after the release of the new record, the band will hit the road in support of said record. And that, ladies and gentlemen is called rock and roll. Expect the 'Hoofs to hit a town near you, provided you live near one of the fifteen cities on the following list:

n 03-14 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord (w/Tussle)
04-05 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill (w/XBXRX, Numbers)
04-11 Claremont, CA - Claremont College
04-14 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
04-16 St. Paul, MN - Big V's (w/Sicbay)
04-18 Milwaukee, WI - Onopa Brewing Co.
04-19 Richmond, IN - Earlham College
04-20 Pittsburgh, PA - Modern Formations (w/Microwaves)
04-22 New York City, NY - Knitting Factory (w/Erase Errata)
04-23 Boston, MA - Berwick Institute (w/Semiautomatic)
04-24 Toronto, ON - The 360
04-27 Ithaca, NY - Cornell University
04-28 Akron, OH - Lime Spider
04-29 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College
04-30 Denver, CO - Monkeymania

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