Jared Kaufman
08/03/06, 06:36 AM
Below you can find the press release for Kevin Devine (http://www.myspace.com/kevindevine)'s Capitol Records debut, Put Your Ghost To Rest, which will see release on October 17th. The tracklisting and current tour dates are below as well. Don't forget you can check out a brand new song, "Just Stay," on his AP.net Artist Profile (http://www.absolutepunk.net/kevindevine).
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Kevin Devine makes his Capitol Records debut on October 17th with Put Your Ghost To Rest. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck Guided By Voices, The Vines), Put Your Ghost To Rest is a collection of 12 compelling songs showcasing Devine's keen, idiosyncratic observations on a wide range of topics including but not limited to love, friendship, suicide, drinking and the sorry state of the Western Civilization.
Devine, who has opened for artists such as Sleater-Kinney, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional, Bob Mould, The Honorary Title, and KT Tunstall (who he will tour with in the fall), is currently touring North America with Corinne Bailey Rae.
The Brooklyn, NY-based artist's three previous albums - Split The Country, Split The Street, Make The Clocks Move, and Circle Gets The Square established him as a "perceptive folk poet" (to quote Rolling Stone) and garnered Devine a place on Alternative Press' "Bands You Need To Know In 2004" feature. Said the New York Times of Make The Clocks Move: "he wears his anxiety lightly: each sigh is accompanied by a shrug...and these carefully written songs are even more effective because they're sung so casually."
Backed by The Goddamn Band (pianist/vocalist Amy Bracco, bassist/guitarist Chris Bracco, vocalist Carey Brandenburg, drummer/percussion Mike Skinner, guitarist/bassist Russel Smith and violinist Margaret White), Put Your Ghost To Rest is by turns rowdy and restrained, from the giddy infatuation captured in "Like Cursing Kids" to the plaintive, poetic"A Billion Bees" with the steel-guitarstrainsof "Less Yesterday, More Today" falling somewhere in between. On "You'll Only End Up Joining Them," Devine weighs his options for self-annihilation - "the narrow noose or the waiting water" - before concluding "to kill yourself to raise the dead, it never works, you'll only end up joining them" while "The Burning City Smoke" is a rolllicking, five-and-a-half minute indictment of the post-9/11 State of the Union:
"40 million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home
One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans
And those of us who make our mark use someone else's blood
Our western stain won't wash away, it won't vanish in the flood
It gets deeper through each hurricane and tidal wave and war
We want everything we see and once it's gone we just want more"01. Brooklyn Boy
02. You're Trailing Yourself
03. Just Stay
04. You'll Only End Up Joining Them
05. A Billion Bees
06. Less Yesterday, More Today
07. Like Cursing Kids
08. Go Haunt Someone Else
09. The Burning City Smoke
10. Me and My Friends
11. Trouble
12. Heaven Bound and Glory Be7/29 San Diego, CA Brick By Brick
7/30 Riverside, CA Parkview*
7/31 West Hollywood, CA House of Blues
8/2 Los Angeles, CA The Hotel Café*
8/12 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tea Room
8/13 Houston, TX Warehouse Live (Studio)
8/14 Austin, TX Antone's
8/16 Atlanta, GA The Loft
8/18 Annapolis, MD Ram's Head Tavern
8/20 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere
8/21 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
8/23 New York, NY Webster Hall
8/25 Boston, MA The Paradise Rock Club
8/27 Toronto, ON Mod Club Theatre
8/29 Chicago, IL Park West
8/30 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Kevin Devine makes his Capitol Records debut on October 17th with Put Your Ghost To Rest. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck Guided By Voices, The Vines), Put Your Ghost To Rest is a collection of 12 compelling songs showcasing Devine's keen, idiosyncratic observations on a wide range of topics including but not limited to love, friendship, suicide, drinking and the sorry state of the Western Civilization.
Devine, who has opened for artists such as Sleater-Kinney, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional, Bob Mould, The Honorary Title, and KT Tunstall (who he will tour with in the fall), is currently touring North America with Corinne Bailey Rae.
The Brooklyn, NY-based artist's three previous albums - Split The Country, Split The Street, Make The Clocks Move, and Circle Gets The Square established him as a "perceptive folk poet" (to quote Rolling Stone) and garnered Devine a place on Alternative Press' "Bands You Need To Know In 2004" feature. Said the New York Times of Make The Clocks Move: "he wears his anxiety lightly: each sigh is accompanied by a shrug...and these carefully written songs are even more effective because they're sung so casually."
Backed by The Goddamn Band (pianist/vocalist Amy Bracco, bassist/guitarist Chris Bracco, vocalist Carey Brandenburg, drummer/percussion Mike Skinner, guitarist/bassist Russel Smith and violinist Margaret White), Put Your Ghost To Rest is by turns rowdy and restrained, from the giddy infatuation captured in "Like Cursing Kids" to the plaintive, poetic"A Billion Bees" with the steel-guitarstrainsof "Less Yesterday, More Today" falling somewhere in between. On "You'll Only End Up Joining Them," Devine weighs his options for self-annihilation - "the narrow noose or the waiting water" - before concluding "to kill yourself to raise the dead, it never works, you'll only end up joining them" while "The Burning City Smoke" is a rolllicking, five-and-a-half minute indictment of the post-9/11 State of the Union:
"40 million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home
One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans
And those of us who make our mark use someone else's blood
Our western stain won't wash away, it won't vanish in the flood
It gets deeper through each hurricane and tidal wave and war
We want everything we see and once it's gone we just want more"01. Brooklyn Boy
02. You're Trailing Yourself
03. Just Stay
04. You'll Only End Up Joining Them
05. A Billion Bees
06. Less Yesterday, More Today
07. Like Cursing Kids
08. Go Haunt Someone Else
09. The Burning City Smoke
10. Me and My Friends
11. Trouble
12. Heaven Bound and Glory Be7/29 San Diego, CA Brick By Brick
7/30 Riverside, CA Parkview*
7/31 West Hollywood, CA House of Blues
8/2 Los Angeles, CA The Hotel Café*
8/12 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tea Room
8/13 Houston, TX Warehouse Live (Studio)
8/14 Austin, TX Antone's
8/16 Atlanta, GA The Loft
8/18 Annapolis, MD Ram's Head Tavern
8/20 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere
8/21 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
8/23 New York, NY Webster Hall
8/25 Boston, MA The Paradise Rock Club
8/27 Toronto, ON Mod Club Theatre
8/29 Chicago, IL Park West
8/30 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater