Pitchfork: MP3: Comets on Fire: "Dogwood Rust"

Comets on Fire are back with Avatar, their follow up to 2004's Blue Cathedral. The album will be released August 8 on Sub Pop.

The label's website describes it as "an earthy, more accessible and downright beautiful album... Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans to Quicksilver to Procol Harum to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remaining wholly Comets on Fire."

If you've got adjective overload like I do right now, you can download "Dogwood Rust"-- the exclusive MP3 we're hosting-- and judge for yourself. You can also preview the new stuff on the band's upcoming late summer tour.

Avatar tracklist:

01 Dogwood Rust
02 Jaybird
03 Lucifer's Memory
04 The Swallow's Eye
05 Holy Teeth
06 Sour Smoke
07 Hatched Upon the Age

Everything from free-form, sensual psych rock to blissed out, hungry rainbow folk:

08-14 San Diego, CA - The Casbah *
08-15 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo *
08-16 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall #^
08-18 Portland, OR - Holocene #
08-19 Seattle, WA - Neumos #$
08-31 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
09-01 Baltimore, MD - TBA
09-02 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's
09-03 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09-04 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
09-05 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
09-06 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
09-07 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
09-08 New York, NY - Knitting Factory

* with No Doctors, Indian Jewelry
# with 16 Bitch Pile Up
^ with Kid 606
$ with Kinski