The critically acclaimed High Dials have confirmed 16 shows in major Canadian and U.S. cities in anticipation of the release of their new album Moon Country (Fontana Distribution), in stores September 23rd, 2008. The band will play shows for fortunate fans, friends and newcomers coast-to-coast in New York, L.A., Toronto, Vancouver and their hometown of Montreal, as well as 11 other cites across North America.
MP3: Killer of Dragons: http://www.themusebox.net/mp3s/thehighdials-killerofdragons.mp3
Moon Country was produced by Joseph Donovan (Sam Roberts, The Dears) and is a celebration of the album as an art form in this MP3 age. The album is divided into two sides Side A and Side B - like an LP, in the hopes that listeners will take it in as a sequenced, cohesive, self-contained piece of music. Parts of Moon Country were recorded in a remote cabin in Ireland (if you listen closely, you can actually hear the fire crackling in the background!), before the album was completed in a studio in Montreal.
Montreal-based The High Dials make lush, intelligent psychedelic pop; dreamy anthems built on bittersweet melodies, bright harmonies and moody guitar sounds. The band has released two previous records: A New Devotion (2003) and War of the Wakening Phantoms (2005), which made year-end top-10 lists of many critics, including the Washington Post and Magnet Magazine, and won high praise from All Music Guide and Spin. The album also went to number one on Canadian college radio charts.
Notable High Dials fans the band have made along the way include Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre (who often turns up at gigs, hopping onstage to join in their songs), Andrew Loog Oldham, original 60s hustler and star-maker to the Rolling Stones, and Rod Argent, legendary songwriter of the Zombies, who performed on one of the High Dials B-sides.
The High Dials Tour US and Canada:
Sept 18 Montreal, QC Cabaret Music Hall
Sept 19 Philadelphia, PA TBD
Sept 20 New York, NY Rehab
Sept 21 Ottawa, ON Babylon
Sept 27 Toronto, ON El Mocambo w/Disraelis and Invasions
Oct 5 Thunder Bay, ON The Apollo Bar
Oct 6 Winnipeg, MB Lo Pub & Gallery
Oct 7 Regina, SK the Distrikt
Oct 9 Vancouver, BC Pub 340
Oct 10 Seattle, WA Lo-Fi Performance Gallery
Oct 11 Portland, OR East End
Oct 15 Grass Valley, CA Rhythms Music Cafι
Oct 16 Santa Cruz, CA The Crepe Place
Oct 17 Sacramento, CA Old Ironsides
Oct 18 San Francisco, CA The Hotel Utah Saloon
Oct 19 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland Lounge
More Resources:
www.thehighdials.com
www.myspace.com/thehighdials
www.sonicbids.com/thehighdials
MP3: Killer of Dragons: http://www.themusebox.net/mp3s/thehighdials-killerofdragons.mp3
Moon Country was produced by Joseph Donovan (Sam Roberts, The Dears) and is a celebration of the album as an art form in this MP3 age. The album is divided into two sides Side A and Side B - like an LP, in the hopes that listeners will take it in as a sequenced, cohesive, self-contained piece of music. Parts of Moon Country were recorded in a remote cabin in Ireland (if you listen closely, you can actually hear the fire crackling in the background!), before the album was completed in a studio in Montreal.
Montreal-based The High Dials make lush, intelligent psychedelic pop; dreamy anthems built on bittersweet melodies, bright harmonies and moody guitar sounds. The band has released two previous records: A New Devotion (2003) and War of the Wakening Phantoms (2005), which made year-end top-10 lists of many critics, including the Washington Post and Magnet Magazine, and won high praise from All Music Guide and Spin. The album also went to number one on Canadian college radio charts.
Notable High Dials fans the band have made along the way include Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre (who often turns up at gigs, hopping onstage to join in their songs), Andrew Loog Oldham, original 60s hustler and star-maker to the Rolling Stones, and Rod Argent, legendary songwriter of the Zombies, who performed on one of the High Dials B-sides.
The best band in North America. --Anton Newcombe, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Psych pop perfection -- 8/10 NME (UK)
The golden era of Canadian cool continues apace. -- The Sun (UK)
Sept 18 Montreal, QC Cabaret Music Hall
Sept 19 Philadelphia, PA TBD
Sept 20 New York, NY Rehab
Sept 21 Ottawa, ON Babylon
Sept 27 Toronto, ON El Mocambo w/Disraelis and Invasions
Oct 5 Thunder Bay, ON The Apollo Bar
Oct 6 Winnipeg, MB Lo Pub & Gallery
Oct 7 Regina, SK the Distrikt
Oct 9 Vancouver, BC Pub 340
Oct 10 Seattle, WA Lo-Fi Performance Gallery
Oct 11 Portland, OR East End
Oct 15 Grass Valley, CA Rhythms Music Cafι
Oct 16 Santa Cruz, CA The Crepe Place
Oct 17 Sacramento, CA Old Ironsides
Oct 18 San Francisco, CA The Hotel Utah Saloon
Oct 19 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland Lounge
More Resources:
www.thehighdials.com
www.myspace.com/thehighdials
www.sonicbids.com/thehighdials
