Future Of The Left Confirmed To Tour The US With Against Me! !!! 25 Aug 2008

“Piecing together rancid bits of fun, punk and absurdist theater, Future of the Left’s debut album spews confrontational noise with exhilarating flair….Curses is so over the top you just have to laugh in delighted appreciation.”            Spin


FUTURE OF THE LEFT CONFIRM U.S. TOUR
Band To Support Against Me!
Debut Album Curses Out On Too Pure

Future of the Left are excited, thrilled, delighted and downright psyched to announce that they will be supporting Against Me! on their forthcoming US tour.  We at the label are just as stoked.   The tour starts September 30 in Birmingham, AL and takes the band throughout the US ending in Los Angeles on October 28.   Future of the Left will be third on the bill that also includes Ted Leo.

Future of the Left’s debut album Curses was released earlier this year on Too Pure and this will mark their first US tour.    The band is made up of 2/3 of the now defunct Welsh band Mclusky --  singer/ guitarist Andy Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone -- and one-fifth of  the band Jarcrew, wild-eyed frontman Kelson Louis Matthias.

Recorded across three weekends with longtime associate Richard Jackson, Curses is an altogether broader, more devious, more detailed record than anything that's come before. There are songs about revenge (“The Lord Hates A Coward”) Tories (the self-explanatory, Shellac-inflected “Fuck The Countryside Alliance”), and sausages on sticks (“Wrigley Scott”). But there's also “Manchasm,” a song about Falco's cat, and how it misses its owner when he's off on tour.  There's “Fingers Become Thumbs,” which is about evolution. There's “Suddenly It's A Folk Song,” inspired by a biography of Peter Sellers, which explores the chasm between an actor's role and his private persona. There's “Real Men Hunt In Packs,” conceived as an alternative theme tune to The Sopranos. Or perhaps most surprising of all, the closing “The Contrarian,” a gentle Noel Coward-esque tale of social mores which came together when Andy and Kelson found a piano in the studio and decided to write a song on it, each playing one handed.  In short, Curses finds Future Of The Left further trying to stretch and bend the boundaries of what a rock band should be.

Tour dates can be found here.

“Curses brilliantly maintains the kind of vicious angularity that defined the 90s American noise-rock scenes.  What separates  the trip from stylistic limitations are Falkous’ positively twisted lyrics.”    Alternative Press

“(With Future of the Left) the gleefully snide vocals, jagged guitars and manic pop hooks remain, but Curses has expanded upon Mclusky’s formula with more listener-friendly touches….don’t be fooled; there’s a riot going on here. It’s just a lot more fun than most.”    Magnet

Future of the Left merge the twisted styles of its predecessors into a sludgy, serrated debut.    Distilling the doomed bass throb, precise yet pummeling rhythms, and jagged-glass guitars of their former groups, this trio has created a brutal (and often brutally funny) collection in which discordant melodies slice through tribal beats like broken bottles in a bar fight.”            Revolver

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• 26 October 2007 Union Pool Brooklyn New York
• 27 October 2007 Knitting Factory New York New York
• 28 October 2007 Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia Pennsylvania
• 29 October 2007 Local 506 Chapel Hill North Carolina
• 31 October 2007 Star Bar Atlanta Georgia
• 01 November 2007 Bottletree Birmingham Alabama
• 02 November 2007 Pilot Light Knoxville Tennessee
• 04 November 2007 Rubber Gloves Denton Texas
• 05 November 2007 Emo's Austin Texas
• 09 November 2007 Media Club Vancouver British Columbia CA
• 10 November 2007 Sunset Tavern Seattle Washington

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