YOB Reissue Atma; Announce US & European Live Dates
Total no-brainer preorder. I don’t know when it’s coming, and frankly, I don’t care, but I put in my digital dollarbucks yesterday for the CD and t-shirt bundle and my only question as regards doing so is should I go back and order the hoodie as well. Probably yes, yes I should, and so should you.
Do we need to talk about Atma (review here)? Released in 2011, it was the second album back from YOB post-reunion — their breakup seems like forever ago now, but that was a long four years — and it was willful in its rawness. It was my pick for album of the year that year, as will happen where YOB are concerned, and songs like “Prepare the Ground,” “Before We Dreamed of Two” and “Adrift in the Ocean” — also “Atma” and “Upon the Sight of the Other Shore,” which, yes, is all the songs on the record — make for a continually resonant listening experience. There have been days on which nothing else will do. Going by what I hear in longtime-collaborator Billy Barnett‘s new mix of Atma, that seems very unlikely to change.
Vinyl’s due in April. Fine. Does that mean CD is held back too? Whatever. Any day this shows up in the mail will be a good day. In the interim, the digital is out now and streaming at the bottom of this post. I had a mini-panic attack when I saw the four nights they’re doing in Brooklyn. It’s a terrifying prospect — surely all four will sell out — but I might have to go to at least one.
From the PR wire:
YOB Release Atma (Deluxe Version) Today via Relapse; U.S. & European Tour Dates Announced
YOB close out 2021 with the release of a remixed and remastered version of their stunning sixth album, Atma, and word of the trio’s first tour since 2019.
“When we first recorded Atma, our aim was to have a raw production, lo-fi and punk, and we did get that sound. Over the years, though, we wondered what it would be like to have Billy Barnett remix Atma, allowing him to give it Gung Ho Studio’s scope and thunder, as he has on The Illusion Of Motion, The Unreal Never Lived, Clearing The Path To Ascend, and Our Raw Heart,” explained Mike Scheidt of the newly remixed and remastered collection. “Due to our busy schedules, this idea sat on the back burner but when the pandemic hit, we had the time to not only approach the project, but approach it with this goal: to keep everything in Jeff Olsen’s amazing raw-punch production while having Billy make it volume-wide and monolithic in detail and space. We’re thrilled with the result, and hope you will be too!”
The nearly-hour long album initially arrived in 2011. Guest musicians included Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Jeff Olsen and Dustin Rieseberg. Atma landed on numerous year-end lists. Atma (Deluxe Version) is available digitally now, with the digital release featuring 10 tracks: the five remastered/newly mixed versions followed by the original 2011 renditions. An array of 2xLP vinyl variants arrive on April 8, and are available for pre-order (orcd.co/yob-atmadeluxe) now. The variants are:
· Clear with gold pinwheels and splatter (135 copies)
· White, oxblood, and gold merge with splatter (335 copies)
· Bone white in clear with rainbow splatter (535 copies)
· Bone white with splatter (1000 copies)
· Oxblood and Gold (5500 copies)
YOB tour dates:
December 11 Bellingham, OR Structures Brewing
December 21 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
December 22 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
February 20 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus Bar
February 21 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus Bar
February 22 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus Bar
February 23 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus Bar
March 17 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s
March 18 Santa Cruz, CA Felton
March 19 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
March 20 Los Angeles, CA 1720
March 21 San Diego, CA Brick by Brick
March 22 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
March 23 Albuquerque, NM Sister
March 24 Denver, CO Marquis Theater
March 25 Salt Lake City, UT Soundwell (with The Otolith)
April 27 Glasgow, UK G2
April 28 Leeds, UK Brudenell Social Club
April 29 Manchester, UK Academy 3
May 1 London, UK Desert Fest
May 3 Lille, FR Aeronef
May 4 Rouen, FR Le106
May 5 Paris, FR La Maroquinerie
May 6 Lyon, FR L’Epicerie Moderne
May 8 Munich, DE Strom
May 10 Bologna, IT Freakout Club
May 11 Mezzago, IT Bloom
May 12 Martigny, CH Les Caves du Manoir
May 13 Delemont, CH SAS
May 14 Dortmund, DE Junkyard
May 16 Oslo, NO Partkteatret
May 17 Stockholm, SE Slaktkyrkan
May 18 Gothenburg, SE Valand
May 19 Copenhagen, DK Colossal Weekend
May 20 Aarhus, DK Atlas
May 21 Hanover, DE Café Glocksee
May 22 Groningen, NL Vera
May 24 Eindhoven, EL Effenaar
May 25 Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU Kulturfabrik
May 26 Gent, BE Dunk Fest
May 27 Berlin, DE Desert Fest
July 20 – 24 Moran, WY Fire In The Mountains Fest
True Widow opens on March 17 to 24 dates;
Tickets for the newly announced U.S. tour dates are on sale Friday, Nov. 5 at 10 am pacific. Tickets for the band’s European tour are on sale Thursday, Nov. 4 at 11 am CET.
YOB is:
Mike Scheidt – Guitar, Vocals
Aaron Rieseberg – Bass
Travis Foster – Drums
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