Seattle-based rockers Scarves have shared Sweet Tooth, the final single lifted from their new LP, ‘Dinner Dates for the End of Days’. Take a listen to Sweet Tooth via Soundcloud below.
About the track, Niko Stathakopoulos shares, “So last year I decided to take the big leap and grow out my beard. There is this strange moment where you look in the mirror, and although the day before you didn’t, today you definitely do have a beard. In that moment you sort of take a look at your own character sheet, do inventory on your experiences and such, and then have a complete identity crisis. That’s what ‘Sweet Tooth’ is about.”
‘Dinner Dates for the End of Days’ is out September 28th via Good Eye Records digitally and on vinyl, including a limited “Green/Blue” Smoke colour run.
Stathakopoulos, Grasing, and Watts wrote and rehearsed Dinner Dates for the End of Days under a cloud of smoke and ash from British Columbia forest fires. If “apocalyptic emo math rock” doesn’t get you excited in 2018, nothing will. Each song is a portrait of an end times that’s positively inspiring and undeniably heart-warming. Even as we lurch toward something unpleasant, it’s hard to be too bummed out with Niko’s vocals and Watts’ driving drums.
The album was recorded at Destination Universe in Portland: a studio designed to blend in to a neighborhood realtors might call “character-filled.” Produced by Hutch Harris of Thermals sainthood, the album was recorded downright punkishly. No click. Mostly single takes. It’s a testament to the tightness of the band that the finished product sounds so lush. Rounding out the personnel was engineer Victor Nash of Point Juncture, WA and studio cat Oogi.
‘Dinner Dates for the End of Days’ tracklist
01: Shelter
02: Collapse
03: Crushed Ice
04: No Names
05: Arrow
06: Sweet Tooth
07: Muscles
08: You’re Ugly Too
09: Icarus
10: Dinner Dates
Scarves are currently on their first full US tour – details are below.
Tour dates
9/25 Los Angeles, CA – Eastside Showroom
9/26 San Diego, CA- House Show
9/27 Phoenix, AZ – The Lunchbox
9/28 Tucson, AZ – House Show
9/29 – The Pizza Joint
10/01 Austin, TX – Cheer Up Charlies
10/02 Denton, TX -TBA
10/03 New Orleans, LA – Circle Bar
10/04 Athens, GA – TBA
10/05 Charlotte, NC – Evening Muse
10/06 Raleigh, NC – Slims
10/08 Washington DC – The Dwells
10/09 Philadelphia, PA – House Show
10/10 New York, NY – Trans-Pecos
10/12 Syracuse, NY – House Show
10/13 New Jersey – TBA
10/14 Pittsburgh – Mr Roboto
10/16 Cincinnati, OH – House Show
10/17 Chicago, IL – Burlington Theater
10/19 – Davenport, IA – Daytrotter
10/20 – Kansas – TBA
10/21 Omaha, NE – House Show
