{"id":29543,"date":"2018-08-20T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=29543"},"modified":"2019-05-31T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:26:34","slug":"lithics-announce-european-tour-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=29543","title":{"rendered":"Lithics announce European tour in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland, OR-based\u00a0minimal punk group Lithics is celebrating the release of their critically acclaimed album ‘Mating Surfaces’<\/a><\/u>\u00a0by taking their mesmerizing live show on the road for a\u00a0month-long European tour.<\/p>\n

\"Lithics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to buy Lithics ‘Mating Surfaces’<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Lithics exist in a nervous fragmented world, a propulsive futuristic hell where anything can be consumed at any time, where any sound from any era can be conjured and reproduced and yet most of what we are stuck with seems like a trite reproduction of a sentiment long lost. Lithics fight this impossible dreary reality with a bold minimalist vision, “Can I be myself?” A stern danceable sound that summons cut up snapshots of Su Tissue and Mark E Smith, an imagined landscape where Captain Beefheart\u00a0hits that 99 Records “Too Many Creeps” beat.<\/p>\n

This is the sound of possibility. A total collaborative vision: Aubrey Hornor’s stark stilted vocals intoning over her and Mason Crumley’s wired guitar parts, like lightbulb flashes and the whir of insects unspooled and playing off each other. Bob Desaulniers’ basslines give both structure and dissonance to the endeavor, and along with Wiley Hickson on drums, this is a rhythm section recalling\u00a0art-damaged yet danceable noise made in the detritus of failing cities in the late 70s\/early 80s (The Lower East Side, Cleveland, Manchester…). Except Lithics is happening now, a continuing part of the vital art punk DIY underground in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

Lithics create a world that seems like it is collapsing as it’s being built.\u00a0‘Mating Surfaces’<\/a>\u00a0is an unnerving sound, total in its commitment to a specific vision, DIY minimalist art-punk that speaks to the fact that whenever someone says the underground is dead it just demonstrates that they are just too past it to know any better.”<\/p>\n

– Layla Gibbon (Maximum Rocknroll<\/em>, Skinned Teen)<\/p>\n

Lithics tour dates<\/strong>
\n01\/09\u00a0Paris, FR\u00a0@ Espace B
\n02\/09\u00a0Utrecht,\u00a0NL @\u00a0Brouwerij De Kromme Haring
\n03\/09\u00a0Brussels, BE @\u00a0Jester – FREE SHOW
\n04\/09\u00a0Rotterdam, NL\u00a0@ Herman
\n05\/09\u00a0Brighton, UK\u00a0@ Green Door Store –\u00a0tickets<\/a><\/u>
\n06\/09\u00a0Bristol,\u00a0UK @\u00a0Hy Brasil – FREE SHOW
\n07\/09\u00a0London, UK\u00a0@\u00a0Islington –\u00a0tickets<\/u><\/a>
\n08\/09\u00a0Manchester, UK\u00a0@ Eagle Inn –\u00a0tickets<\/a><\/u>
\n09\/09\u00a0Glasgow,\u00a0UK\u00a0@ The Hug & Pint –\u00a0tickets<\/u><\/a>
\n10\/09\u00a0Oxford, UK\u00a0@\u00a0Cellar\u00a0–\u00a0tickets<\/a><\/u>
\n11\/09\u00a0Antwerpen, BE\u00a0@ Kleine Hedonist
\n12\/09\u00a0Tournai, BE\u00a0@ Water Moulin
\n13\/09 Schorndorf, DE\u00a0@ Manufaktur –\u00a0tickets<\/a><\/u>
\n14\/09\u00a0K\u00f6ln, DE\u00a0@ King Georg –\u00a0tickets<\/a><\/u>
\n15\/09\u00a0Strasbourg, FR\u00a0@ Le Diamant d’Or
\n16\/09\u00a0Lyon, FR\u00a0@ Grrrnd Zero
\n17\/09\u00a0Gen\u00e8ve, CH@ L’Usine
\n19\/02\u00a0W\u00fcrzburg, DE\u00a0@\u00a0Cairo
\n20\/09\u00a0Leipzig, DE\u00a0@ TIFF
\n21\/09\u00a0Berlin, DE @\u00a0Inntternet Explorrr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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