THE CONTORTIONIST RELEASE EARLY GRAVE SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO
ALL NEW EP OUR BONES OUT AUGUST 9, 2019
PRE-ORDERS/SAVES AVAILABLE NOW
ON TOUR WITH BTBAM THIS SUMMER WITH SHOWS ACROSS CANADA IN JULY
WATCH VIDEO FOR EARLY GRAVE HERE
Toronto, ON – June 25, 2019 – The Contortionist have announced a new EP today, and the release of a new single and music video titled, Early Grave. Produced and Directed by Corey Norman and produced and edited by vocalist, Michael Lessard, this is the first music video and original song we’ve seen from the progressive group since the release of Clairvoyant in 2017. Watch the video here.
The Contortionist will release Our Bones on August 9, 2019, via Entertainment One / Good Fight Music. Crafted in the compound owned by producer/engineer, John Douglass (Coheed & Cambria, Bad Wolves, Carnifex), where the guys were able to live and work, Our Bones began with some ideas Robby Baca would regularly run through at the band’s sound checks.
“Once I was finally able to get Robby to record that riff we started piecing together the song in the back of the van, while on tour in Europe,” Lessard recalls. The result was lead single, Early Grave, an expression of gratitude to the fans who’ve shared their stories of heartbreak, loneliness, and depression, and found new strength in the music of The Contortionist.
The band’s blistering new EP sees The Contortionist step outside the atmospheric storytelling of their critically-lauded conceptual masterpiece Clairvoyant (2017) to indulge an aggressive shadow side. More an anthology of standalone bursts of intensity, Our Bones isn’t a mere stopover between albums. It’s both a definitive look back and an ambitious leap forward.
“We try to do something different with everything we create,” explains Lessard. “With our albums, we tend to work with overarching interconnected themes. Our Bones is a departure. It offered an opportunity to dive into some things we haven’t had a chance to explore, and the shorter EP format allowed us to be hyper-focused on each song.”
Our Bones was mixed and mastered by longtime collaborator Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, Through The Eyes Of The Dead), who worked on Language and Clairvoyant.
While The Contortionist ultimately has proven themselves masters of psychedelic-enhanced experimentation and trippy melodicism, endearing them to fans of later period Enslaved and Sigur Ros alike, they have never entirely forsaken the urgent impact of tech-leaning extremity.
“From The Beatles to Pink Floyd to Mastodon, all the great rock bands in history have clear, non-linear musical trajectories,” Metal Sucks observed. “It’s great to see a band taking chances and moving forward. The result is a fully formed band, four albums in, to which no other bands compare. Literally: no one else sounds like The Contortionist even a little.”
The Contortionist is:
Joey Baca / Robby Baca / Cameron Maynard / Michael Lessard
/ Jordan Eberhardt / Eric Guenther
Pre-order Our Bones: ffm.to/ourbonesep
Track List:
1. Follow
2. Early Grave
3. All Grey
4. 1979
TOUR DATES:
July 7 – Ottawa, ON – Barrymore’s Music Hall
July 9 – Kitchener, ON – Elements
July 10 – London, ON – London Music Hall
July 11 – Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation @The Intersection
July 13 – Winnipeg, MB – The Garrick Centre
July 14 – Regina, SK – The Exchange
July 16 – Fargo, ND – The Windbreak
July 17 – Minneapolis, MS - Varsity Theater
July 18 – Madison, WI – The Red Zone Madison
July 19 – Lafayette, IN – Lafayette Theater
July 20 – Newport, KY – Thompson House
July 21 – Syracuse, NY – Wescott Theatre
July 23 – Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater
July 24 – East Saratoga Junction, NY – Upstate Concert Hall
July 25 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
July 26 – Providence, RI – Fete Music Hall
July 27 – Amityville, NY – Amityville Music Hall
July 28- Reading, PA – Reverb
July 29 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
August 3 – Venice, IT – Argo16
August 4 – Milan, IT – Circolo Svolta
August 6 – Wiesbaden, GR- Kesselhaus
August 7 – Dresden, GR – Beatpol
August 8 – Warszawa, PL- Hydrozagdka
August 9 – Jaromer, CZ – Brutal Assault Festival
August 10 – Berlin, GR – Musik & Frieden
August 11 – Hamburg, GR – Knust
August 13 – Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn
August 14 – Cologne, GR – Club Volta
August 15 – Dinkelsbuhl, GR – Summer Breeze Festival
August 17 – Bristol, UK – Arctangent Festival
August 19 – Dublin, UK – Voodoo Lounge
August 20 – Belfast, UK – The Speakeasy
August 22 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
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