Pitchfork

Yes! Pitchfork's 48th favorite album of 2006, the Long Blondes' Someone to Drive You Home, is finally coming out in North America. Released last year in Europe on Rough Trade, the stylish post-punk troupe's debut will hit our shores June 5, thanks to the good people at the Beggars Group.

The North American version of Someone to Drive You Home comes loaded with four bonus tracks, as well as the video for the single "Once and Never Again". The Blondes plan to support the release with a brief North American tour in June, followed by a more extensive one in September. They'll also spend the summer festival-hopping in Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan.

As for new Long Blondes music, the band has contributed a song, "The Unbearable Lightness of Buildings", to the Tate Modern art gallery's Tate Tracks project. The project commissions artists to write songs inspired by pieces in the gallery, then offers the songs on headphones hanging in the gallery next to the work. "The Unbearable Lightness of Buildings" was inspired by Jannis Kounellis' painting "Untitled", and has been available in the Tate since April 1. Starting May 1, the song will be streaming from the Tate Tracks website.

Someone to Drive You Home tracklist:

01 Lust in the Movies
02 Once and Never Again
03 Only Lovers Left Alive
04 Giddy Stratospheres
05 In the Company of Women
06 Heaven Help the New Girl
07 Separated by Motorways
08 You Could Have Both
09 Swallow Tattoo
10 Weekend Without Makeup
11 Madame Ray
12 A Knife for the Girls

Bonus tracks:

01 Fulwood Babylon
02 Five Ways to End It
03 Never to Be Repeated
04 All Bar One Girls

Video:

Once and Never Again

Dates with the Long Blondes:

04-11 Vienna, Austria - Arena
04-12 Mayrofen, Austria SnowBombing Festival
05-12 London, England - Kentish Town Forum *
06-29 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival
06-30 Stockholm, Sweden - Accelerator Festival
07-07 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park
07-08 Naas, Ireland - Oxegen Festival
08-11 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic
08-24 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-25 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival

* with Maximo Park