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Menomena have released their first track 'Heavy Is As Heavy Does' off their upcoming album Moms, out September 18th. The track premiered via Pitchfork, and is available for posting here. Moms is the Portland-based band's fifth album, and their first as a duo. The band is also pleased to announce that PVT will be joining them on their North American headlining tour in support of Moms.
During the last decade, Menomena has become its own reference point. From hooks wrapped around plummeting baritone saxophone lines and nearly inhuman rhythms to serpentine lyrical frameworks and high-concept album art, Menomena has established a singular and unmistakable aesthetic. They embed magic and mystery within pop songs that have never sat still or taken the path of least pressure.
After 2010's irrepressible and intricate Mines, Menomena co-founder Brent Knopf took his leave to focus on his solo project causing Justin Harris and Danny Seim - close friends since high school and now well into their second decade of making music together-to recast Menomena as a duo. They didn't slow down; they actually sped up, writing, recording and releasing Moms with more focus and speed than ever before.
Harris and Seim didn't invite loads of friends or collaborators to replace Knopf; they made these songs as a duo, intent on proving-directly to themselves, and by extension, to everyone else - that Menomena essentially remains the same brazen band responsible for Friend and Foe, Under an Hour and all the gut-punch, pop-ambition moments therein. They added new instruments, like flute, cello, more of Seim's synthesizers and the tap-dancing that actually laces through the teasing-then-charging opus, 'Don't Mess with Latexas.'
The result, Moms, is tragic and intimate, comic and endearing, personal and motivated. In 10 songs and just less than 50 minutes, Harris and Seim cast pop cascades into noise kaleidoscopes ('Baton'), chop and twist a melody until it becomes a big dance beat ('Capsule'), and build inescapable arrays of tension and texture that finally release ('Tantalus').
Menomena Tour Dates
% - with PVT
For more information visit the bands Facebook here.
During the last decade, Menomena has become its own reference point. From hooks wrapped around plummeting baritone saxophone lines and nearly inhuman rhythms to serpentine lyrical frameworks and high-concept album art, Menomena has established a singular and unmistakable aesthetic. They embed magic and mystery within pop songs that have never sat still or taken the path of least pressure.
After 2010's irrepressible and intricate Mines, Menomena co-founder Brent Knopf took his leave to focus on his solo project causing Justin Harris and Danny Seim - close friends since high school and now well into their second decade of making music together-to recast Menomena as a duo. They didn't slow down; they actually sped up, writing, recording and releasing Moms with more focus and speed than ever before.
LISTEN // 'Heavy is as Heavy Does'
Harris and Seim didn't invite loads of friends or collaborators to replace Knopf; they made these songs as a duo, intent on proving-directly to themselves, and by extension, to everyone else - that Menomena essentially remains the same brazen band responsible for Friend and Foe, Under an Hour and all the gut-punch, pop-ambition moments therein. They added new instruments, like flute, cello, more of Seim's synthesizers and the tap-dancing that actually laces through the teasing-then-charging opus, 'Don't Mess with Latexas.'
The result, Moms, is tragic and intimate, comic and endearing, personal and motivated. In 10 songs and just less than 50 minutes, Harris and Seim cast pop cascades into noise kaleidoscopes ('Baton'), chop and twist a melody until it becomes a big dance beat ('Capsule'), and build inescapable arrays of tension and texture that finally release ('Tantalus').
Menomena Tour Dates
- 9/1 - Wild Goose Festival - Corvalis, OR
- 9/7 - Musicfest NW - Portland, OR +
- 9/25 - Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA %
- 9/26 - Bimbo's 365 Club - San Francisco, CA %
- 9/27 - El Rey - Los Angeles, CA %
- 9/28 - Casbah - San Diego, CA %
- 9/29 - Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ %
- 10/2 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX %
- 10/3 - Parish - Austin, TX %10/4 - Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX %
- 10/5 - One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA %
- 10/6 - Masquerade - Atlanta, GA %
- 10/9 - Black Cat - Washington, DC %
- 10/10 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA %
- 10/11 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY %
- 10/13 - Brighton Music Hall - Allston, MA %
- 10/16 - La Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC %
- 10/17 - Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON %
- 10/18 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH %
- 10/19 - Metro - Chicago, IL %
- 10/20 - Triple Rock - Minneapolis, MN %
- 10/23 - Neurolux - Boise, ID %
- 10/25 - Biltmore - Vancouver, BC %
- 10/26 - Showbox at the Market - Seattle, WA %
- 11/23 - Captain's Rest - Glasgow, UK
- 11/24 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK
- 11/28 - Point Ephemere - Paris, France
- 11/29 - Laiterie - Strasbourg, France
- 11/30 - Atomic Cafe - Munchen, Germany
- 12/1 - Postbahnhof - Berlin, Germany
- 12/3 - Ubel & Gefahrlich - Hamburg, Germany
- 12/4 - Gebaude 9 - Cologne, Germany
- 12/5 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 12/6 - Botanique Orangerie - Brussels, Belgium
- 12/7-9 - All Tomorrow's Parties - Minehead, UK
% - with PVT
For more information visit the bands Facebook here.
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