Brooklyn indie darlings Harlem Shakes will release their debut LP,
Technicolor Health, on March 24th courtesy of New York’s Gigantic Records. The full-length follows the Shakes’ inimitable, self-released 2007 EP,
Burning Birthdays, which earned generous praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, SPIN, The Village Voice, and a host of blogs. Pitchfork admired the band’s “frenetic clip of hooks,” and sometime Magnetic Field-er LD Beghtol of The Voice called them “lethally charming” and one of “the Best of New York.”
After supporting the EP on the back of tours with Deerhoof, Vampire Weekend & Beirut, the band entered the studio with Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, The Walkmen, Passion Pit) to record what would become Technicolor Health. The result is one of the most quietly ambitious pop albums in ages. Much like Blur fused English pop traditions & contemporary sonics to forge Brit Pop, Harlem Shakes meld the Great American Songbook with unmistakably contemporary textures, creating what one might call “Am Pop.”
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In other news, the Shakes will be hitting the road with Tokyo Police Club later this month, in a quick run of dates down the East Coast, before making the trek to Austin, TX for this year’s SXSW music festival.
February:
26 Washington, DC – Black Cat * ^
27 Swarthmore, PA – Swarthmore College *
28 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr Smalls *
March
01 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *
02 Columbus, OH – Basement *
03 Covington, KN – Mad Hatter *
05 Atlanta, GA – Earl *
06 Talahassee, FL – Downunder *
07 Orlando, FL – The Social *
* w/Tokyo Police Club
^ w/ Born Ruffians
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