Good news Doomtree fans, the Minneapolis collective will release their next album, All Hands, on January 27, 2015!
The title nods to the nautical rally cry, “All hands on deck,” and the album stands as the most collaborative and cohesive project the crew has yet produced. The production from Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger, and P.O.S twists through 13 booming tracks, building the raw and epic soundscapes that the group has become well known for, while adding more of-the-moment musical elements and techniques for a genre-spanning effect. This is the sound of old friends fine-tuning their craft, both together and individually, for over a decade, and it shows. Lyrically, All Hands sounds hungry as all hell. The three-year gap between Doomtree albums has given each of the five emcees substantial time to grow as solo artists, and the group’s return finds everyone tour-tested with plenty to prove. Sims, P.O.S, Mike Mictlan, Dessa, and Cecil Otter drive home razor-sharp cadences, hard-hitting punchlines, and monstrous choruses, passing the spotlight back and forth until the house lights come up.To write All Hands, crew members sequestered themselves in a cabin with no cell reception to distract from the task at hand and no neighbors to be bothered by the music playing through the night. The process informed the product: the record creates and operates within its own sphere-a particular mix of menace, humor, beauty, and adrenaline. Though the Minneapolis sound is present on All Hands, the record is as much a product of seven friends, relying only on each other, working in international waters. Both the catchiest and densest album in the group’s catalog, All Hands adeptly walks a tightrope of immediately memorable hooks and in-depth lyricism that rewards repeated listens. The result is equally worthy of up-to-11 trunk-rattling drives as it is late-night headphone sessions.
To help ring in the release, the crew deliver the project’s first single, “Gray Duck.”
Pre-orders are available now on iTunes/Bandcamp and at their web store (which comes with some super sweet incentives).
Standard pre-order packages of All Hands will receive a 36-page lyric booklet, instant downloads of “Gray Duck” and “.38 Airweight” (as well as bonus track “High Water” upon the album’s release), an autographed poster and a glow-in-the-dark sticker. The deluxe pre-order option will also include a limited-edition t-shirt, a miniature ship in a bottle and custom matchbox (as a nod to the album artwork), a metal Doomtree pin and an All Hands cloth patch.
P.O.S., Dessa and the rest are also going on tour next year! Dates below.
2/4 – Mojo’s – Columbia, MO
2/6 – Trees – Dallas, TX
2/8 – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs – Houston, TX
2/9 – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
2/11 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA
2/12 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC
2/13 – Boot & Saddle – Philadelphia, PA
2/14 – U Street Music Hall – Washington, DC
2/16 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
2/17 – Highline Ballroom – New York, NY
2/19 – Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI
2/20 – Abbey Pub – Chicago, IL
2/21 – Majestic Theatre – Madison, WI
3/4 – The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
3/5 – Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, CO
3/6 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
3/7 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
3/9 – Neumo’s – Seattle, WA
3/10 – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
3/12 – Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
3/13 – The Roxy Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
3/14 – The Glass House – Pomona, CA
3/16 – Club Red – Mesa, AZ
3/17 – Launchpad – Albuquerque, MN
