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Tabula Rasa

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Announced today: excited for the What I Needed 10" for Record Store Day UK #girlsrock #artfagcity #america #hotgirl

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‘Minnesota baroque-pop ensemble Dark Dark Dark long ago installed themselves in the warmest chambers of my vital organs, and I couldn’t spurt praise effusive enough of either their latest, Who Needs Who, or indeed their carnivalesque live show to do the infatuation justice. Theirs is a singular, and sporadically esoteric hex and one I’ve yet to shake so this one – their contribution to next month’s Record Store Day – is nothing if not a timely reminder of my dedication to that unerring devotion. I’ve always found Record Store Day to be something of a disorientating experience, not least as there’s so much stuff to lust after and so little time to snap it up before it ends up, somewhat inevitably, on eBay. But a longstanding live fave, this one heads up my list of essential acquisitions and is to be backed up by a further couple things in Love Lies and I Collect Things. They’re as yet inaudible though this, a dizzying whizz back through widely recognised musical histories – honky-tonk, doo-wop, off-kilter jazz pitter-patter, etcetera – is one to waltz with right through April 20th. And though Nona Marie Invie may chime, “And if I knew then/ What I know now/ I would never have asked/ Anything like that” it would appear that she’s only too aware of this elaborate plundering of the past though when they’re so capable of reproducing in the present, that’s really of little concern. And only in knowing that which she does now can she and they continue to produce these quietly affecting sorts of things…’

Dark Dark Dark play TV On The Radio’s ATP curation May 10th–12th.

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EUROPE TOUR NOV/DEC 2012

here are our remaining tour dates for 2012 -

November 27th - Rennes, FR - L'Antipode - TICKETS November 28th - Poitiers, FR - Le Confort Moderne - TICKETS November 29th - Laval, FR - 6 par 4 - TICKETS November 30th - Orleans, FR - L'Astrolabe - TICKETS December 1st - Brussels, BE - Botanique (with Shearwater + Father John Misty) - TICKETS December 2nd - Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie - SOLD OUT! December 3rd - Feyzin, FR - L'Epicerie Moderne - TICKETS December 4th - Strasbourg, FR - La Laiterie - TICKETS December 5th - Reims, FR - La Cartonnerie - TICKETS December 6th - London, UK - The Forum (supporting Kurt Vile + Lower Dens) - TICKETS December 7th-9th - Camber Sands, UK - All Tomorrow's Parties (Curated by The National) - SOLD OUT! December 11th - Amiens, FR - Lune Des Pirates - TICKETS December 12th - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso - TICKETS December 13th - Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang - TICKETS December 14th - Copenhagen, DK - Lille Vega - TICKETS December 15th - Berlin, DE - Bi Nuu - TICKETS December 18th - Istanbul, TR - Salon Iksv - TICKETS

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Flew to Brisbane and couldn't land. Came back to Sydney instead. Flying again tomorrow am for 2 sets @harvestpresents!!

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Major Tom and the Atoms Melbourne

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Surfing Torquay

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Chromatics rule @harvestpresents

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Bam what's up now MN?!

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Nice Bad Boyz Klub SF foo

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Revolution Cafe Oakland @caryl_lyrac

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Sebastopol @bud_snow

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Nevada City deep hang all day

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(video for "Tell Me" by Dark Dark Dark)

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Vanorama