Cave Singers Prepping Next Album

Signs with Jagjaguwar for an early 2011 release.

By Blurt Staff

Jagjaguwar has just announced that Seattle's Cave Singers will have their next album on the label. The quirky NW  folksters (guitarist Derek Fudesco, singer Pete Quirk and drummer Marty Lund) plan to enter the studio this summer with Seattle producer Randall Dunn, the man behind the boards with bands like Sunn O))), Boris and The Cave Singers' friends Black Mountain. "In working with Dunn," the label tells us,  "the band hopes to give its sound some added weight and a soaring ferocity more akin to The Cave Singers' incredible live show. The recording session will manifest itself as The Cave Singers' Jagjaguwar debut early next year."

"Everything's more electrified on this record, and just louder," Fudesco recently told Seattle Weekly. "We wanted to work with someone who we felt could have a bit thicker production, and working with someone who does a lot of heavier records, [we thought] even our quieter songs would probably come off more like we play 'em live."

The band will unveil some of the new songs in August at Happy Valley, Oregon's Pickathon and then at the No Depression Festival in Redmond, WA. Between the two festivals The Cave Singers will share the stage with Dr. Dog, Bonnie Prince Billy, Lucinda Williams, The Swell Season, Alejandro Escovedo and many more. And in September, the band will go abroad to tour China for the first time.

TOUR DATES:

08/06 Happy Valley, OR- Pickathon Festival

08/07 Happy Valley, OR- Pickathon Festival

08/08 Happy Valley, OR- Pickathon Festival

08/21 Redmond, WA- Marymoor Park- No Depression Festival

On the web:

The Cave Singers Myspace