Plaid Announces North American Tour Dates
New Album Scintilli Out Now On Warp Records
Download: "Missing" from Scintilli
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Since the release of 2003’s Spokes, Plaid have scored two of Michael Arias’ award-winning films, released Greedy Baby, an ambitious audio-visual collaboration, continued to perform around the world (including a landmark performance at Warp Records’ 20th anniversary celebrations) – and just recently released their latest album Scintilli. Plaid just announced a North American tour in support of Scintilli which includes stops at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge and Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre.
Latin in origin, the word Scintilli can be translated as ‘I am many sparks’. A self-affirming mantra Plaid (aka Ed Handley and Andy Turner) claim to chant for two hours every morning, before starting work in their newly built studio in North London. Every beat of the work has been carefully crafted: they’ve calculated that each beat has taken approximately one day to construct - from the announcement of the laying down of the first foundation beat in early 2009, to the rendering of the final decay earlier this year. ‘This labour intensive process will guarantee long lasting pieces of music that can withstand the restless tensions placed upon them by modern playback devices’, they insist.
“There’s a fierce intelligence working here” - Q
“Scintilli is Plaid’s most confident-sounding album to date and certainly among their best work.” - Exclaim
“Perhaps an explanation for the beautiful noise emanating from Scintilli, Ed Handley and Andy Turner’s ninth album, can be found in their attention to detail.” - Mojo
Plaid Tour Dates
11.09 - Montreal, QC @ SAT
11.10 - Toronto, ON @ Wrongbar
11.11 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
11.12 - Boston, MA @ Paradise
11.13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
11.15 - Houston, TX @ Stereo Live
11.16 - Austin, TX @ND Studios
11.18 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
11.19 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird
11.21 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore
11.22 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11.23 - Portland, OR @ Holocene
11.25 - San Francisco, CA @ Mezzanine
11.26 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
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