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Fans of Califone's kitchen-sink folk have been tiding themselves over with film and television scores, a reissue, and the promise of a tour documentary, but we here at Pitchfork are happy to announce that the band's honest-to-goodness next full-length is almost here.

Roots & Crowns will see an October 10 release on Thrill Jockey, and if you've read our track review of "The Orchids", you can already guess that some of us think it's pretty great.

Songwriter Tim Rutili explains the album's title in a press release: "Uniting where you come from-- your roots-- with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become-- crowns... Some of these songs started as hummed melodies into my cell phone recorder while I was driving. Others were triggered by overheard conversations, loops brought in from home, field recordings or sounds we made in the studio before the tape was rolling... We took our time to shape and manipulate a more experimental collage of sounds into solid melodies and more concise song structures."

Longtime collaborator Brian Deck produced most of the album, the tracklist of which is listed after the jump. The tracklist is almost identical to the one we posted in May ("Spider's" instead of "Spiders"), but this time it's confirmed.

Califone have a smattering of tour dates scheduled as well, beginning with two shows in Chicago this weekend and picking up speed in October on the West Coast. The band will also perform live on NPR's "World Café" on November 11.

Tracklist:

01 Pink & Sour
02 Spider's House
03 Sunday Noises
04 The Eye You Lost in the Crusades
05 A Chinese Actor
06 Our Kitten Sees Ghosts
07 Alice Crawley
08 The Orchids
09 Burned by the Christians
10 Black Metal Valentine
11 Rose Petal Ear
12 3 Legged Animals
13 If You Would

Dates:

08-12 Chicago, IL - West Fest
08-13 Chicago, IL - The Hideout
08-17 Brooklyn, NY - McCarren Park Pool *
10-01 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar #
10-02 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive #
10-04 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture #
10-05 San Diego, CA - Casbah #$
10-07 Los Angeles, CA - Getty Museum
10-08 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
10-10 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill %
10-12 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
10-13 Seattle, WA - Triple Door
10-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club
10-16 Boise, ID - Neurolux
10-21 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10-22 Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theater #
11-11 Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live
11-21 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center

* with Iron & Wine, Low
# with Brent Green
$ with Magnolia Electric Co.
% with Oakley Hall