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Avant-noize collective To Live and Shave in LA is eager to give fans a hint of their new album, Noon and Eternity (due out on October 31 on Menlo Park Recordings), but have been delayed in their attempts by a force apparently as strict as the Dept. of Homeland Security: MySpace.

Said collective founder Tom Smith (after attempting to post another track on MySpace "for [fans'] already blown drums 'n' lobes"):

"We're tired of not being able to leak more of the forthcoming studio opus, but as Noon and Eternity is comprised primarily of medicated lip balm and vanilla chai tea, we couldn't get a full take past MS's security checkpoints."

But never fear: the band has granted Pitchfork full access to an exclusive Noon teaser mp3, featuring the entire album smooshed into one four-minute stretch! Plus all the tea and lip balm we wanted.

Noon and Eternity, the follow-up to 2001's The Wigmaker, is the product of core TLASILA members Smith, Rat Bastard (bass), and Ben Wolcott (oscillator), along with a veritable army of guitarists-- Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Chris Grier, and Mark Morgan, rounded out by one Andrew WK on drums. The album, dubbed a "futuristic vision of psych" in a press release (whereas Wigmaker was supposedly "a futuristic approach to punk"), was recorded over a year ago at Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon studios, then mixed and mastered last year.

Before the arrival of Noon and Eternity, the collective will release a chronological TLASILA remix album, called Horoscopo: Sanatorio de Molière, on August 25 on Blossoming Noise. Created over the course of four years and containing eight tracks culled from TLASILA's entire career (1991-present), the album is, y'know, the usual remix fare-- "designed to evoke the typically warped narratives of the Spanish-Italian giallo/spy film co-productions of the mid-1960s."

In support of Horoscopo, the collective will embark on a futuristic warped tour in September. According to Smith, they'll most likely travel as a quintet (Andrew WK, Rat Bastard, Ben Wolcott, Chris Grier, and Smith) for the Canada dates and as an octet (the aforementioned five plus Don Fleming, Mark Morgan, and Rich Russo) to the States. TLASILA "honorary chaplain" Thurston Moore will be absent, as he'll be touring with Sonic Youth.

A close shave:

08-31 Montreal, Quebec - Friendship Cove
09-01 Montreal, Quebec - Sala Rosa (MEG Festival)
09-02 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee's
09-03 Hamilton, Ontario - The Underground
09-04 New York, NY - Tonic
09-05 Jersey City, NJ - WFMU (Brian Turner Session)
09-06 Brooklyn, NY - Syrup Room