MP3: New Clogs; LP + Tour

Play Select Cities And Release New Album Track In Support Of The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton

By Blurt Staff

Clogs (Bryce Dessner of The National, guitar; Rachael Elliott, bassoon; Thomas Kozumplik, percussion; and Australian composer Padma Newsome, viola) are playing select cities in the coming weeks in support of their forthcoming album, The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (out March 2nd on Brassland).

Watch BLURT for an exclusive interview with the members of the band the week of the album's release.

Featuring extensive vocal work from Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, plus special guests including Sufjan Stevens, Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger of The National, and the Osso String Quartet, The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton, composed by Padma Newsome, is Clogs' first album of songs after four primarily instrumental releases. The Veil Waltz EP, a prologue to this new album, is now available digitally on Brassland.

Clogs compose and improvise using sounds and textures from across the musical spectrum - the immediacy of folk and rock music, twisted Americana, and the complexity of modern composition.  

Check out the MP3 from the album for  "Red Seas"

MP3 from the EP  for "Three-Two"

Over the past few years, Clogs have performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at the Sydney Festivals, the Bang on a Can Marathon, Cincinnati, Ohio's MusicNow Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Warhol Museum. For this release, they will perform at the Southern Theater in partnership with the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, The Bell House in New York and the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Clogs Tour Dates:

Fri. Feb. 19 -- Minneapolis, MN @ Southern Theater

Sat. Feb. 20 -- Minneapolis, MN @ Southern Theater

Wed. Mar. 24 -- New York, NY @ Bell House w/ Ólöf Arnalds and Julianna Barwick

March 26 - 28 -- Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival

[Photo Credit: Seraphina]