Lee's NEW ALBUM: LAST NIGHT ON EARTH • DROPS OCT 8
 

NEW ALBUM: LAST NIGHT ON EARTH • DROPS OCT 8




photo John Von Pamer



FROM MATADOR RECORDS 8/13/13:


“A solo record works best when you feel like you’re opening a window into somebody’s life, experiencing the things they’re going through or thinking about, places they’re seeing, through their eyes. At its best, you find a universality in it.”
– Lee Ranaldo

On October 8 (October 7 in the UK and Europe), Matador Records will be releasing ‘Last Night On Earth’, the new album from Lee Ranaldo and The Dust (drummer Steve Shelley, guitarist Alan Licht and bassist Tim Lüntzel). Expanding on the groundwork laid down on 2012′s ‘Between The Times & The Tides’, ‘Last Night’ — while certainly darker in tone & lyrical content than its immediate predecessor, is the sort of dizzying electric guitar clinic that ranks amongst the best from any era. After an exhaustive stretch of domestic and international touring (with more to come — see below) Lee & The Dust have formed a powerhouse unit, and we’re confident the results of these Echo Canyon West sessions will impress & inspire for months to come, if not far longer. Here an initial sample in the album’s “Lecce, Leaving”



PREORDER ‘Last Night On Earth’ on double LP or single CD from the Matador Store
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Lee discusses the album with WNYC’s John Schaefer (airs 8/13 @ 9PM EST)








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and here's an overview of the tour dates as posted on Matador:
(Some solo dates are not included though, such as those shows with Bang On A Can on Nov 7, 8 and 9)


North America :
Tue-Oct-08 Hudson, NY Club Helsinki
Wed-Oct-09 Buffalo, NY Tralf Music Hall
Fri-Oct-11 Toronto, ONT Horseshoe Tavern
Sat-Oct-12 Detroit, MI Trinosophes
Sun-Oct-13 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Mon-Oct-14 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
Tue-Oct-15 Minneapolis, MN The Triple Rock
Thu-Oct-17 Iowa City, IA Gabe’s
Fri-Oct-18 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
Sat-Oct-19 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck
Sun-Oct-20 St. Louis, MO The Firebird
Tue-Oct-22 Nashville, TN Exit/In
Wed-Oct-23 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle
Fri-Oct-25 Brooklyn, NY The Bell House


Europe :
sun 10-Nov-2013 NL GRONINGEN – VERA
Mon 11-Nov-2013 DE HAMBURG – KAMPNAGEL
Wed 13-Nov-2013 DE COLOGNE – GEBAUDE 9
Thu 14-Nov-2013 FR METZ – acoustic show at le musée de la cour d’or
Fri 15-Nov-2013 FR METZ – CAVEAU DES TRINITAIRES – MUSIQUE VOLANTE FESTIVAL
sun 17-Nov-2013 CH LAUSANNE – LE ROMANDIE
Mon 18-Nov-2013 FR FEYZIN – Epicerie Moderne
Wed 20-Nov-2013 FR VILLENEUVE D’ASQ – FESTIVAL TOUR DE CHAUFFE AT LA FERME D’EN HAUT
Thu 21-Nov-2013 UK LONDON – THE GARAGE
Fri 22-Nov-2013 UK CAMBER SANDS – ATP FESTIVAL at Camber Sands
Sat 23-Nov-2013 FR PARIS – Boulogne Billancourt BB MIX FESTIVAL
Mon 25-Nov-2013 FR POITIERS – CONFORT MODERNE
Tue 26-Nov-2013 FR TOURS – TEMPS MACHINE


North America again:
Fri-Dec-06 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
Sat-Dec-07 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
Sun-Dec-08 Seattle, WA Barboza
Wed-Dec-11 San Francisco, CA The Chapel
Fri-Dec-13 Los Angeles, CA The Echo

Sounds great!

This sounds really good. Even looking more forward now :)
I noticed that in iTunes you get a bonus track (Late Descent #2 Dusted Mix). Does anyone happen to know if that song will also be available for download with the LP-version? Or that'll be iTunes-only?

In this album title, does "last" mean "previous" or "final?" Or is it intentionally vague?

both! This will be awesome

I love the album color and the band photo. And I cannot wait for The Bell House show.

That band photo is amazing. Well done whoever took it...

This is the only information in matador-sites:
LP includes MP3 download coupon.

So there is no tracklist. But I´m quite sure that same song is in that download.

Four hippies in the woods.


I'm really waiting for this release. I liked Lee's previous album and hope this is gonna be even better!

I have make pre-order soon (vinyl of course).

Yep, fingers crossed that it is! Thanks.

I take it the Bell House show is sold out...

GREAT cover.

That cover is...poor

I respectfully disagree.

It looks someone spewed random photoshop layers over each other and added some random stock press shot..and the font? ew!

It reminds me of



and

Set list:

1. Lecce, Leaving
2. Key / Hole
3. Home Chds
4. The Rising Tide
5. Last Night On Earth
6. By The Window
7. LateDescent #2
8. Ambulance
9. Blackt Out

source: http://www.amazon.co.jp/Last-Night-E...ds=lee+ranaldo

I also like a lot Lee´s new album cover for the same reasons as you. It´s quite a long time anyone has made those "twisted lens" -covers. There is also lots of autumn-feeling & I love autumn.

 

 

These are also great.

There will be a third date of Lee Ranaldo performing with Bang On A Can Allstars, on November 9 in Antwerpen

Apart from Lee's composition How Deep are Rivers, the program is pretty different each night:

November 7, Eindhoven:

• Bryce Dessner (The National) - Nieuw werk
• Bryce Dessner (The National) - Shut your Eyes against the Wind
• Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) - Stroking Piece #1
• Fred Frith - Snakes & Ladders
• David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors) - Instructional Video, Matt Damon, Breakfast at J&M
• Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) - How Deep are Rivers

November 8, Amsterdam:

• Julia Wolfe Reeling
• Florent Ghys An Open Cage
• Christian Marclay Fade to Slide
• Todd Reynolds Seven Sundays
• Mira Calix meeting you seemed easy
• Michael Gordon Gene takes a drink (met film van Bill Morrison)
• David Lang unused swan
• Tyondai Braxton Casino Trem
• Nick Zammuto Real Beauty Turns
• Lee Ranaldo How Deep Are Rivers

November 9, Antwerpen:

• Electric Counterpoint (1987) Steve Reich
• O Shut Your Eyes Against the Wind (2011) Bryce Dessner
• Stroking Piece #1 (2003) Thurston Moore
• Snakes and Ladders (2006) Fred Frith
• Miniatures (2012) David Longstreth
• How Deep are Rivers (2008) Lee Ranaldo

And on a sidenote:
Scout Niblett's site lists that she will play together with Lee on 29 November in Rouen, France (as support probably). It's not yet listed on the SY calendar though'nor on the venue's site, so not sure whether it's correct.

Does anybody know the status of the "acoustic" album recorded in Spain? September's just around the corner...

let's not forget this one, fr Joni's first album:

or this, AoxoMoxoA back cover by Robt Weir:

Anyone know if it will be extra tracks in some Japanese/Australian/etc edition?

Yeah guys those are all cool examples. Shame Lee's isn't

Beautiful - many thanks, Lee.

This is also great:

another one

Courtney Love is in this picture, no?

This is from Wikipedia "Aoxomoxoa" site:
A five-year-old Courtney Love appears on the album's back cover.[

And from this it is taken to Wikipedia:

Comment: I spoke with GRATEFUL DEAD historian DAVID GANS, and was able to
confirm the old rumor that COURTNEY LOVE does in fact appear on the back
cover of the 1969 GRATEFUL DEAD album cover, AOXOMOXOA. She was 5 years
old in the picture. DAVID GANS said: "CCOURTNEY LOVE did in fact appear
on the back cover of AOXOMOXOA as a child. Her father was HANK HARRISON,
one of the band's managers in the early days of the GRATEFUL DEAD."

It is a messageboard, so I don´t know can anyone rely on this...

There are clips on Amazon now - in the UK at least. Sounds great, really looking forward to this now!

the album kinda looks like a similar version of adbusters...

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/109

I love the font

This song is about my feelings for Lee, who rules all in the extreme, and is the nicest guy, and will chat with you like he is not some sort of pantheonic rock god, which he IS.

http://youtu.be/ADH_s4pBR3Q

Here's some more ode's to Lee, sort of:

Vic Chesnutt - Splendid
Or check out Archive.org. The live version is even better but not found on youtube in complete form. For instance here

splendid Lee
full of life
wandering the countryside

Bettie Serveert - Love Lee

Pale light is shining in my eyes,
I want everyone to see that it’s Love Lee
Grand Central Station in my mind,
it’s imperative to find that this is me
It’s Love Lee, I love Lee

full album stream here:
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/exclu...night-on-earth

HOLY MOLY. Kampnagel? That's gonna be interesting.
Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy Karen Revisited this time :rolleyes: :D

thx Moshe, listening non-stop

I listened it once and was not impressed. Maybe I was excpecting something else. I like his previous album very much... :(