Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Tera Melos premiere new song from forthcoming album, tour w/ Speedy Ortiz supporting this Fall


"A refreshing step forward for Tera Melos." -- NPR

Tera Melos premiere a new track from their forthcoming third album Trash Generator today via Brooklyn Vegan. Hear and share album "Your Friends" HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.)

Tera Melos recently released the official video for the album title track, available to watch and share via YouTubeNPR previously premiered lead single "Don't Say I Know" HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.) 

Tera Melos launch an extensive North American headlining tour with Speedy Ortiz supporting in October. Please see current dates below. 

Trash Generator, the trio's third full length, is an astonishing blast of confidence and rejuvenation. It sounds as if the 4-year downtime since their last album has recharged the band with an entirely new sense of purpose. The performances are brilliant and sharp, the songs concise yet intricately detailed, and the album production deftly captures the band's strength as a live unit. Their dalliances with mellower psychedelic phrases on their previous two albums, X'ed Out (2013) and Patagonian Rats (2010) are significantly trimmed and instead utilized as colorations within a swirling maelstrom of righteous aggro punk-jazz abandon. As such, it sounds like Tera Melos has fully metabolized their pop tendencies and found a way they can coexist with the band's iconoclast origins. Tera Melos -- guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart, bassist Nathan Latona and drummer John Clardy -- have learned to stop worrying and just be Tera Melos. 

In the downtime since their last full length, Reinhart remained active in multiple endeavors: contributing guitar to Death Grips' The Powers That B and Bottomless Pit albums + the I.L.Y.'s (Zach Hill and Andy Morin's other band), Big Walnuts Yonder (with Mike Watt, Nels Cline and Greg Saunier), Portugal.the man and many others. Latona completed a college degree he'd put off for 11 years. Clardy became and integral faculty member at the School of Rock in Dallas/Ft. Worth, inspiring young musicians with his real-world approach to learning music.

"Wth this record it was 100% let's not concern ourselves with what we should be doing at this point in the band's lifespan, and just fully focus on what makes us happy," Reinhart says. 

Trash Generator will be available everywhere August 25th, 2017 on LP, CD, click, like and download via Sargent House. Pre-orders for LP/CD via HelloMerch and download via iTunes.

TERA MELOS & SPEEDY ORTIZ 2017
Oct 13 Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy 
Oct 14 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's 
Oct 16 Portland, OR @ Holocene 
Oct 17 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey 
Oct 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court 
Oct 20 Denver, CO @ Globe Hall 
Oct 21 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown 
Oct 22 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry 
Oct 24 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon 
Oct 25 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird 
Oct 26 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean 
Oct 27 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's 
Oct 28 Toronto, ON @ The Hard Luck 
Oct 29 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz 
Oct 31 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair 
Nov 01 Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom Outer Space
Nov 02 Brooklyn, NY @ TBA
Nov 03 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ Fillmore 
Nov 04 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel 
Nov 05 Carborro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 
Nov 07 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth 
Nov 08 Talahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (FSU) 
Nov 09 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade Purgatory 
Nov 10 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa 
Nov 11 Houston, TX @ Secret Group 
Nov 13 Dallas, TX @ Three Links 
Nov 15 Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge 
Nov 16 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah 
Nov 17 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room 
Nov 18 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill


Artist: Tera Melos
Album: Trash Generator
Record Label: Sargent House
Release date: August 25th, 2017

01. System Preferences
02. Your Friends
03. trash Generator
04. Warpless Run
05. Dyer Ln
06. GR30A11
07. Men’s Shirt
08. Don’t Say I Know
09. A Universal Gonk
10. Like a Dewclaw
11. Drawing
12. Super FX








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