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Doseone (aka Adam Drucker) and his Subtle crew (including Jeffrey "Jel" Logan, also of Anticon fame) have made the move to a major label for their upcoming full-length, for hero : for fool. EMI-- who is also backing Lex Records' long-forthcoming Danger Mouse and MF Doom releases-- will co-release for hero : for fool with Lex on October 3 in the U.S. and October 2 in the UK.

In an email to Pitchfork, Drucker said, "We have taken [EMI's] ears by storm and retained all aspects of our creative control and [our] friendly contract with Lex while doing so."

The album's first single will be "The Mercury Craze", scheduled for an October 17 U.S. release (October 16 in the UK). It will have two B-sides. The first is a remix of "The Mercury Craze" from Pitchfork's own Drew Daniel, aka one half of Matmos and one whole of the Soft Pink Truth. The second is "Middleclass Haunt" a single-track remake of two album tracks, "Middleclass Stomp" and "Middleclass Kill", which Drucker described as "sister songs or...a poem that took two songs to paint."

"Middleclass Haunt" is especially notable for being the collaboration with Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade we previously reported. Drucker "gave Dan the lyrics to them both ["Middleclass Stomp" and "Middleclass Kill"], and he took what rang true to him and sung. Never let him hear the originals though. Made things interesting." In addition to the lyrics, "the music is also an amalgam of the two songs," with Boeckner's "hard rock voice & guitar" featured heavily on the track.

The music video for "The Mercury Craze" will be done by previous Subtle collaborators SSSR, who bill themselves as an "animation collective." Subtle tongs, anyone?

for hero : for fool:

01 A Tale of Apes I
02 A Tale of Apes II
03 Middleclass Stomp
04 Middleclass Kill
05 Midas Gutz
06 Nomanisisland
07 The Mercury Craze
08 Bed to the Bills
09 Return of the Vein
10 Call to Dive
11 The Ends

Subtle will tour in support of the album. Confirmed U.S. dates are listed below, and there are still plenty of not-quite-confirmed shows to come, in addition to the promise of a European tour in November.

Dates:

09-14 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
09-15 Bellingham, WA - Nightlight
09-16 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
09-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza
09-19 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
09-20 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
09-23 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09-25 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
09-26 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-28 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
09-29 Montreal, Quebec - Main Hall
10-05 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
10-06 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
10-12 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory
10-13 Pomona, CA - Glass House
10-14 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill