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Swedish husband and wife duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums released their sophomore album, The Snake, in their native country in March, but the rest of the world is just catching up to their debut. Leaf is giving that first record, Heartcore, a U.S. release on May 6 and a worldwide release on May 12.

The lovebirds will fill the world with compoundnouns this spring and summer on livedates that start May 9 in Castellón, Spain. Along the way, they'll play with Jens Lekman, Caribou, Matmos, Born Ruffians, and A Hawk and a Hacksaw.

Heartcore:

01 Pony
02 The Way Things Go
03 Bird
04 I Can't Tell in His Eyes
05 Doubt/Hope
06 A Story From a Chair
07 The Battle in Water
08 The Ones That Should Save Me Get Me Down
09 Lost Love
10 The Window
11 Nakina
12 We Hold Each Other Song

Wilddates:

05-09 Castellón, Spain - EACC
05-10 Paris, France - La Fleche d'Or
05-11 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy *
05-14 London, England - Star of Bethnal Green
05-15 London, England - Scala #
05-17 Brighton, England - Barfly (Great Escape Festival)
05-18 London, England - Cafe Oto
05-19 Manchester, England - Academy 3 $
05-20 Newcastle, England - The Cluny
05-21 Stockton-on-Tees, England - The Georgian Theatre
05-22 Glasgow, Scotland - Captains Rest
05-23 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club #
06-05 London, England - The Luminaire
06-06 Bristol, England - Venn Festival ^
06-07 Aarhus, Denmark - SPOT Festival
06-15 New York, NY - Joe's Pub
06-17 Rochester, NY - Rochester Jazz Festival
06-25 Stockholm, Sweden - Accelerator Festival
07-03 Kristiansand, Norway - Quart Festival
07-04 Kongsberg, Norway - Kongsberg Jazz Festival
07-05 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-19 Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Jazz Festival
08-02 Östersund, Sweden - Bombay Sapphire Club @ Storsjöyran
08-15 Oslo, Norway - Café Mono @ Oslo Jazz

* with A Hawk and a Hacksaw
# with Caribou, Born Ruffians
$ with Jens Lekman
^ with Matmos