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If you imagine Pere Ubu and The Pop Group locking themselves in an abattoir with a bunch of vintage Dada pamphlets and making a vintage punk record full of radio static and creepshow organs, you'd begin to approximate the curious milieu of scary-ass Canadian noise commandos Les Georges Leningrad. Or you could just imagine the basslines of early Bauhaus fused with the muppet-like vocals of (a female) Jello Biafra. We predict that kidz across the globe will be fuck-art-let's-dancing to these dub-inflected absurdist cold-war agitprop underdogs and their self-described "petrochemical rock" by year's end, as well as being mystified by the band's description of themselves as "two cunts and two penises making music." Andre Breton, what have you wrought?

Why you care? Well, Les Georges Leningrad recently became labelmates to The Unicorns, Acid Mothers Temple, Set Fire to Flames and Merzbow when they signed with Montréal's fantabulous Alien8 imprint, who just released the band's debut album, Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou, on yesterday. The originally self-released LP has already made some no-waves, landing Les Georges Leningrad a spot on the Mute Records Rough Trade Shops: Post-Punk Vol. I compilation and opening slots on tours with Le Tigre, The Locust and Numbers. Alien8 plans to release the band's new album this fall as well.

Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou's tracklist is as follows. "La Chienne" is not to be confused with Un Chien Andalou, the overexposed film-school staple by Dali and Buñuel (surrealism's The White Album?), which the Pixies, Trent Reznor and countless burgeoning auteurs with Super 8s have already mined to depletion. Whoa-ho-ho-ho:

01 Caamckne Nechn
02 Lollipoplady
03 Bad Smell
04 Georges V
05 La Chienne
06 Didi Extra
07 Prince R.
08 Wunderkind
09 Impermeable [Mouille des Deux Cotes]
10 Cocktail Vampire
11 Constantinople
12 Mysantropic
13 La Première [Doo Doo Doo]

Additionally, Les Georges Leningrad will tour the U.S. with Trans Am in May. Expect various diabolical clown masks, a garbled hybrid of French, English and German, and sundry other unsettling theatrics. The faint of heart should avoid the following dates and locales as they would a steaming pile of merde:

05-12 Cambridge, MA - First Parish Church
05-13 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
05-14 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
05-16 Wilmington, NC - The Soapbox
05-17 Atlanta, GA - Echo Lounge
05-19 New Orleans, LA - Howlin' Wolf
05-20 Houston, TX - Mary Jane's Fat Cat
05-21 Austin, TX - The Parish
05-22 Marfa, TX - The Marfa Ballroom
05-25 Tucson, AZ - Plush
05-26 San Diego, CA - Casbah
05-27 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
05-28 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
05-29 Oakland, CA - TBA
05-30 Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan
05-31 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
06-03 Minneapolis, MN - TBA
06-04 Chicago, IL - TBA

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