Pretty Girls Make Graves Reveal LP Details, Tour Dates

PGMG's third full-length rekkid, Élan Vital, hits the corner store on April 11, thanks to Matador Records. As Derek Fudesco (bass/vox) told Tiny Mix Tapes recently, Élan Vital is just as different from its power-chorded predecessor, The New Romance, as The New Romance was from their punkier debut Good Health. By which he means: it's a lot different.

For one, guitarist Nathan Thelen left the band just after the New Romance tour. For two, Élan Vital features guitarless songs and songs with double drums, plus accordion, saxophone and melodica. The biggest difference, however, is new keyboardist Leona Marrs, formerly of Hint Hint.

"We had written an entire record before Leona joined," Fudesco told TMT, "but when we started playing with her it made more sense to write with her, rather than her writing to the songs that were already written. So yeah, she brought a whole new style to our music." Marrs' style, by the way, involves a lot of black dresses. And no, she's not Stevie Nicks.

Speakers Push the Air:

1. The Nocturnal House
2. Pyrite Pedestal
3. The Number
4. Parade
5. Domino
6. Interlude
7. The Magic Hour
8. Selling the Wind
9. Pearls on a Plate
10. Pictures of a Night Scene
11. Wildcat
12. Bullet Charm

PGMG will support Élan Vital with an Australian tour with the Gossip later this month, followed by an American tour with Giant Drag in April and May.

02-14 Moscow, ID - Student Union Ballroom at University of Idaho
02-16 Berkeley, CA - Lower Sproul Plaza at UC Berkley
02-17 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
02-18 Bremerton, WA - Rush's
02-19 Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight
02-25 Melbourne, Australia - Spanish Club *
02-27 Perth, Australia - Rosemount *
03-01 Adelaide, Australia - Jive *
03-02 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo *
03-03 Sydney, Australia - Gaelic Club *
03-05 Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival *#
04-26 Portland, 0R - Wonder Ballroom
04-27 Salt Lake City, UT - Avalon Theater $
04-29 Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre $
05-01 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck $
05-02 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground $
05-03 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club $
05-04 Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet $
05-05 Chicago, IL - Metro $
05-08 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop $
05-09 Buffalo, NY - The Buffalo Icon $
05-13 New York, NY - Irving Plaza $
05-14 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts $
05-15 Washington, DC - Black Cat $
05-17 Nashville, TN - Exit In $
05-18 Atlanta, GA - The Earl $
05-19 Tallahassee, FL - The Beta Bar $
05-20 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room $
05-27 Austin, TX - Emo's $
06-01 San Diego, CA - Casbah $
06-02 Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse $
06-03 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre $
06-04 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall $

* with the Gossip
# with Broken Social Scene, Les Savy Fav, the Hold Steady, Youth Group, Faker, Wolf and Cub
$ with Giant Drag

Pretty Girls Make Graves: http://www.prettygirlsmakegraves.com
Matador: http://matadorrecords.com/