THIS WILL DESTROY YOU PREMIERE BLACK DUNES VIDEO WITH SPIN.COM + LATE WINTER TOUR UPDATE
Suicide Squeeze Records act This Will Destroy You are thrilled to announce the premiere of their new video for “Black Dunes” with SPIN.com (see video premiere Jan. 25). The clip was directed by Malcolm Elijah (Pure X “Surface”, “Easy”). SPIN says of the video, “Don’t watch this one alone. The deeply atmospheric video for This Will Destroy You’s creeping, explosive “Black Dunes,” from the instrumental post-rock quartet’s Tunnel Blanket, available now, is disturbing as all get out. The clip shows a young woman wandering through a forlorn empty house, ghostly apparitions, and eerie visual abstractions that seriously give us the creeps.”
This Will Destroy You will kick-off their late winter tour this Saturday, January 28 in Denton, TX at Dan’s Silverleaf and currently wraps up on February 18 in Houston, TX at Warehouse Live. The tour includes the February 9th appearance at Ecstatic Music Fest, held at the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. The tour will also feature support from Mountains and Amen Dunes. The band This Will Destroy You will have more dates to announce shortly — current tour schedule below.
Recently, This Will Destroy You released the “Black Dunes” 7” for Suicide Squeeze ongoing singles series. The single featured the “Black Dunes (edit)” on the A-side and “Black Dunes (Holy Other’s Woman In The Dunes” mix on the B-side. The Fader premiered “Black Dunes (Holy Other’s Woman In The Dunes mix)”(October 6), and had this to say: “Maybe Holy Other felt that his remix of This Will Destroy You’s “Black Dunes” was so divorced from the original, that he needed to semi-retitle it. Or maybe he just went on a Hiroshi Teshigahara bender (c/o Criterion Collection)? Either way, we are with him on this one. He takes all the clashing bleakness of TWDY’s original, and inserts some feminine sensuality (in the form of a woman’s looping vocal ooh ooh ooh) into an equally brooding landscape.”
In other news, This Will Destroy You’s “The Mighty Rio Grande” (from the band’s self-titled second album) is prominently featured in the film and trailer for the Oscar nominated film Moneyball.
Tour Dates
Jan. 28 — Denton, TX — Dan’s Silverleaf* - Tickets
Jan. 29 — Oklahoma City, OK — The Conservatory*
Jan. 30 — Lawrence, KS — Jackpot Music Hall*
Jan. 31 — St. Louis, MO — The Firebird* - Tickets
Feb. 01 — Chicago, IL — Lincoln Hall *^ - Tickets
Feb. 02 — Grand Rapids, MI — Pyramid Scheme *^ - Tickets
Feb. 04 — Toronto, ON — Lee’s Palace *^ - Tickets
Feb. 05 — Montreal, QC — Casa Del Popolo *^ - Tickets
Feb. 08 — Boston, MA — Royale # - Tickets
Feb. 09 — New York, NY — Kaufman Center # - Tickets
Feb. 10 — Philadelphia, PA — First Unitarian Church *^ - Tickets
Feb. 11 — Brooklyn, NY — 285 Kent *^ - Tickets
Feb. 12 — Washington, DC — The Red Palace *^ - Tickets
Feb. 13 — Charlotteville, VA — The Southern *^
Feb. 15 — Atlanta, GA — The Earl *^ - Tickets
Feb. 16 — Birmingham, AL — Bottletree *^ - Tickets
Feb. 17 — New Orleans, LA — Siberia *^
Feb. 18 — Houston, TX — Warehouse Live *^ - Tickets
* with Amen Dunes
^ with Mountains
# with A Far Cry, Slow Six
