Cale Parks has been a busy man this fall. He just wrapped up a tour with Anathallo and is now set to head out with Ted Leo in December and Passion Pit in January & February. All dates below.
And to top it off Parks has recorded an exclusive track titled "Graveyard Barrier" for RCRD LBL and had his new video for "Every Week Ends" debut on Stereogum. Not to mention he was nominated as Deli Magazine Artist of the Month.
Bio For Sparklace
Cale Parks is a musician living in New York. He is the drummer in Aloha and White Williams. His sophomore album
Sparklace (a Cale Parks anagram) will see release on Polyvinyl Record Co. on November 4th and is the first of two solo albums he will release this year. The second album will see release on the upstart Normative Music Company label.
A little over a year since the release of Parks' debut album
Illuminated Manuscript comes
Sparklace. There is a stark contrast between the two albums.
Sparklace stands as a more immediate album than its predecessor focusing on songs with a pop structure whereas Parks' previous output was more ambient and minimalisitc. Recorded in his home, every sound is original. If there is a drum sample, it is from Parks' drum set. The vibraphone is sampled as well. To say Parks has found his voice, is to miss the point. Rather, the sound of
Sparklace is singular and electronic with born digital sounds. There is no wasted space, not a snare out of place. Listen carefully as it settles in, fragile but not without momentum.
Tour Dates
12/06 Cambridge, MA @ TT the Bear's *
12/12 Baltimore, MD @ GSpot *
12/13 Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage *
12/14 Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary *
12/15 Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel
1/22 Montreal, QC @ Le Divan Orange #
1/23 Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox #
1/24 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern #
1/27 Chicago, IL @ Schubas #
1/28 Cleveland, OH @ The Spot at Case Western #
1/29 Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern #
1/30 Columbus, OH @ The Summit #
1/31 Swathmore, PA @ Olde Club at Swarthmore #
2/3 Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage #
2/4 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
2/7 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall #
* w/ Ted Leo
# w/ Passion Pit
"Every Week Ends" Video on Stereogum
Listen "Graveyard Barrier" on RCRD LBL
Vote For Cale Parks For Deli Magazine Artist of the Month
Listen To "Every Week Ends" from Sparklace
Listen To "Some Sew, Some Find" from Sparklace
Praise for Cale Parks
Cale's live percussion and fragile vocals add warmth to the otherwise-electro grooves, and the record is a perfect loop for drifting in an out of focus on hazy, lazy days. -Stereogum
Defies musical conventions and expectations, simply by augmenting them into greater, more eloquent forms. Given Parks' day-to-day gigs, however, defying expectation has to be expected. -Three Imaginary Girls
The flow and sweeping scope of works like Radiohead's Kid A or Bright Eyes' Digital Ash in a Digital Urn...These recordings are soundtracks to Cale's life, as if he plugged straight into his brain and encoded all of his thoughts and experiences directly into a masterpiece. -Insomnia Radio
Tracks range from wistful ambience conjuring Brian Eno to sonic explorations of cryptic lyrical enigmas. -Seattle Sound
If Phil Spector had teamed up with Brian Eno and Tortoise to make his holiday music. -SLUG
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