The Promise Ring Get Major Wood
Catherine Lewis reports:
Milwaukee emo quartet the Promise Ring are all set for the April 23rd release of
their fourth album, Wood/Water, their first for Epitaph imprint Anti-.
The album was recorded at Jacobs Studio in Farnham, England by legendary producer
Stephen Street-- in the same converted farmhouse where Street recorded the Smiths'
The Queen Is Dead. Wow, that's quite a fall you took there, Steve. You
okay?
This is the band's first album since their 1999 Jade Tree release Very Emergency,
and also the first since singer/guitarist Davey vonBohlen was diagnosed with
meningioma, a benign brain tumor, in May of 2000. Although that surgery and the
complications from it halted several of the band's tour plans that year, all looks
well for vonBohlen, and the Promise Ring will be hitting the road with a few U.S.
dates in March-- including a stop in Austin for SXSW-- and a handful of shows in
the UK in May, supporting the, uh, not-so-emo Jimmy Eat World.
In addition, the band is working on a video for the album's first single, "Stop
Playing Guitar." The video will be directed by the Icelandic duo Arni + Kinski
(former members of Gus Gus) in Los Angeles. Arni + Kinski's recent work includes
the Sigur Rós video "Vidrar vel til Loftarasa."
Tracklist for Wood/Water:
01 Size of Your Life
02 Stop Playing Guitar
03 Suffer Never
04 Become One Anything One Time
05 Wake Up April
06 Get on the Floor
07 Half Year Sun
08 My Life Is at Home
09 Letters to the Far Reaches
10 Bread & Coffee
11 Say Goodbye Good
12 Feed the Night
Tour dates:
03-11 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis
03-12 Columbia, MO - Shattered
03-14 Austin, TX - Emo's (SXSW)
03-17 Tulsa, OK - Curley's
05-24 Dublin, Ireland - Ambassador
05-25 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
05-26 Manchester, England - Academy
05-28 Nottingham, England - Rock City
05-29 Birmingham, England - Academy
06-01 London, England - Brixton Academy
.: Pitchfork Review: Promise Ring: Very Emergency
.: Promise Ring: http://www.tpr-online.com
.: Anti-: http://www.anti.com
.: Originally published: 28 February 2002
.: Items mentioned above on Amazon.com:
Wood/Water (The Promise Ring, 2002);
Very Emergency (The Promise Ring, 1999).
