Slaughter Beach, Dog have shared a fourth pre-release single from their upcoming album.
Following Summer Windows, Float Away and Strange Weather, the gently rollicking nine-minute Engine serves as the final preview of 'Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling', due out on September 22. Band leader Jake Ewald said in a statement:
"This song keeps changing for me. First, I didn’t think it was about anything. Then I thought it was about the van. Then I thought it was about [Slaughter Beach, Dog bassist] Ian [Farmer], and I couldn’t figure out why the guitar solo kept making me cry."
"Outside the Sinclair in January, I saw a flyer for a house show and remembered how long we’ve been doing this. Then my heart was in my shoes. Ten years of thinking a different life was right around the corner, selling off all this heavy machinery and making spreadsheets for somebody, futzing with chickenwire, everything more simple.
"Lately this song feels like a eulogy for the change that never came. Ten years gone and I’m still squirming under freedom’s thumb, too easily forgetting rock’n’roll, my great hulking vessel, a framework to swing from, a history to make home inside of. Forms to learn, rules to break, comrades to find, mysteries turned over ad infinitum, inexplicable monsoons of the heart. I’m still finding myself inside this song, still learning to accept that I lived it. Some of it spooks me. I can hear it in the pain of belonging – standing in one place long enough to not take leaving lightly. Staying put when the outlaws arrive at night. Saying very quietly to no one, this is where I live.
"This song keeps changing for me. First, I didn’t think it was about anything. Then I thought it was about the van. Then I thought it was about [Slaughter Beach, Dog bassist] Ian [Farmer], and I couldn’t figure out why the guitar solo kept making me cry,” Jake Ewald said in a statement, going on:
They'll support the follow-up to 2020's 'At The Moonbase' and the subsequent 2022 'Live At The Cabin' LP with a UK tour later in September and October, followed by US dates in November.
Slaughter Beach Dog Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed September 27 2023 - MANCHESTER Manchester Academy 2
Thu September 28 2023 - LEEDS Leeds Irish Centre
Fri September 29 2023 - BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Sat September 30 2023 - LONDON Electric Brixton
Sun October 01 2023 - BRISTOL SWX
Thu November 02 2023 - COLUMBUS Ohio - Bluestone (USA)
Fri November 03 2023 - TORONTO Ontario - Axis Club - Toronto (Canada)
Sat November 04 2023 - DETROIT Michigan - Saint Andrews Hall (USA)
Sun November 05 2023 - CHICAGO Illinois - Thalia Hall Chicago (USA)
Mon November 06 2023 - MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota - First Avenue (USA)
Wed November 08 2023 - ENGLEWOOD Colorado - Gothic Theatre (USA)
Thu November 09 2023 - LAWRENCE Kansas - Granada Theater Lawrence (USA)
Fri November 10 2023 - ST LOUIS Missouri - Delmar Hall (USA)
Sat November 11 2023 - NASHVILLE Tennessee - Basement East (USA)
Sun November 12 2023 - ATLANTA Georgia - Variety Playhouse (USA)
Tue November 14 2023 - CARRBORO North Carolina - Cats Cradle (USA)
Wed November 15 2023 - SILVER SPRING Maryland - Fillmore Silver Spring (USA)
Thu November 16 2023 - BOSTON Massachusetts - Roadrunner (USA)
Fri November 17 2023 - NEW YORK New York - Webster Hall (USA)
Sat November 18 2023 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - Fillmore Philadelphia (USA)
Thu January 04 2024 - HOUSTON Texas - House of Blues Houston (USA)
Fri January 05 2024 - SAN ANTONIO Texas - Main Stage at Paper Tiger (USA)
Sat January 06 2024 - AUSTIN Texas - Emos (USA)
Sun January 07 2024 - FORT WORTH Texas - Tulips (USA)
Tue January 09 2024 - SANTA FE New Mexico - House of Eternal Return (Meow Wolf Santa Fe) (USA)
Wed January 10 2024 - TUCSON Arizona - 191 Toole (USA)
Thu January 11 2024 - PHOENIX Arizona - Crescent Ballroom (USA)
Fri January 12 2024 - SAN DIEGO California - Observatory North Park (USA)
Sat January 13 2024 - LOS ANGELES California - Theatre at Ace Hotel (USA)
Sun January 14 2024 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Fillmore San Francisco (USA)
Tue January 16 2024 - SANTA CRUZ California - Mainroom at The Catalyst (USA)
Wed January 17 2024 - SACRAMENTO California - Crest Theatre - Sacramento (USA)
Fri January 19 2024 - PORTLAND Oregon - Revolution Hall Portland (USA)
Sat January 20 2024 - SEATTLE Washington - Showbox (USA)
Sun January 21 2024 - SEATTLE - Showbox at the Market (USA)
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