Pitchfork

What Is?!, the blurt-heavy lo-fi soul-punk opus from scream-happy luchadores and summer festival staples King Khan and the Shrines, was Pitchfork's #33 album of 2007. But it's still never seen American release.

That'll finally change on April 21, when Vice, King Khan's American label, drops the album in North America. That's almost two years after the German label Hazelwood first issued it, but better late than never.

Meanwhile, the band will play a bunch of shows across America's Southern states in the weeks leading up to SXSW.

What Is?! tracklist:

01 (How Can I Keep You) Outta Harms Way
02 I Wanna Be a Girl
03 Welfare Bread
04 Land of the Freak
05 I See Lights
06 69 Faces of Love
07 No Regrets
08 Cosmic Serenade
09 Le Fils Du Jaques Dutronc
10 Let Me Holler
11 In Your Grave
12 Take a Little Bit
13 Fear & Love
14 The Ballad of Lady Godiva

Dates:

03-06 St. Augustine, FL - Harvest of Hope Festival
03-07 Miami, FL - The Vagabond
03-10 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
03-12 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
03-13 Nashville, TN - Exit In *
03-14 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Café *!
03-15 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks *!
03-16 Dallas, TX - Palladium Loft *$
03-17 San Antonio, TX - The Warhol *$
03-20 Austin, TX - Emo's (Vice Records SXSW Showcase)

* with Golden Triangle
! with Lover!
$ with Gringo Star