DOOMSQUAD announce new EP ‘Pagentry Suite’ + shares new track

Toronto-based trio DOOMSQUAD announces the ‘Pagentry Suite’ EP, to be released digitally May 19 and on limited turquoise vinyl June 16, 2015 via Hand Drawn Dracula (CAN / ROW) and Bella Union (EURO/UK).

This week, the group shared the first taste of the forthcoming EP and you can take a listen to Two-Way Mirror via Soundcloud below.

DOOMSQUAD is made up of siblings Trevor, Jaclyn, and Allie Blumas. The trio create experimental dance music that’s heavily indebted to trance and psychedelia. As interdisciplinary artists, the band brings a wide range of influences to bear throughout their work. From far-reaching global beats to the sounds of their local community, it’s all thoughtfully curated and channeled into a project of immersion and unity. The result is a mesmerizing sonic landscape of dynamic repetition. DOOMSQUAD constructs a contemplative space for deep listening, within the music and within yourself.

‘Pageantry Suite’ is a collaborative project between DOOMSQUAD and Toronto visual artist & filmmaker Chris Boni. This EP offers a call and response between its musical content – a two-part dance suite and a bonus track – and its visual content: the album cover and the Suite’s two accompanying videos. Deploying methods of subversion by hijacking certain pop conventions, DOOMSQUAD plays on notions of accessibility and nostalgia to deliver biting cultural criticisms in a pretty package.

 

 

‘Pageantry Suite’ track listing:
1. Two-Way Mirror
2. Apocalypso
3. Ice Storm
4. Two-Way Mirror (Instrumental)
5. Apocalypso (Instrumental)

 

 

 

DOOMSQUAD will be on tour from May through August opening up for Fucked Up as well as joining them on stage to make a 9 piece band performing songs from Fucked Up’s complete ZODIAC series of 12″ musical scores. Visit fuckedup.cc/the-zodiac-tour for more about the tour and the ZODIAC project.

Tour dates:
05.09.15 – Ottawa ON : Ritual *
05.16.15 – Montreal QC : Bar Le Ritz #
06.26.15 – New York NY : The Wick *
06.27.15 – Jersey City NJ : Monty Hall *
06.28.15 – Philadelphia PA : International House Philadelphia *
06.29.15 – Washington DC : Howard Theater *
07.01.15 – Savannah GA : Southern Pine Company *
07.02.15 – Atlanta GA : Eyedrum Gallery *
07.03.15 – Birmingham AL : Saturn *
07.05.15 – Nashville TN : Third Man *
07.06.15 – Chicago IL : The Garfield Park Conservatory *
08.01.15 – Meaford ON : Electric Eclectics Festival

* = w/ Fucked Up
# = w/ Follakzoid

For more information on Doomsquad, visit doomsquadmusic.com.