Freshkills Announce Fall Tour Dates || ‘Raise Up The Sheets’ Out Now On Bat Rabies Alert / The End Records‏

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“Taking its name from the vast old landfill in Staten Island, Freshkills, appropriately enough, injects a degree of trash rock into its post-punk hybrid. The band’s painstakingly constructed hooks put them at the top of the heap of late-eighties revivalists.” — The New Yorker

“I love this band because they remind me of the way I thought of New York before I lived here. It’s hard-hitting and infectious, but the frantic desperation is always palpable. It’s dark in that way.” — Vice Magazine

“Cool and crass, detached and desperate, dissonant and darkly sarcastic, the quintet specializes in a sound alternately slashing, hypnotic, urgent and controlled. They deliver both live and on vinyl (yes, vinyl), all without the benefit of anything resembling a guitar solo or a vocal harmony. They also have one of the best drummers in the business.” — The Deli

Tracklisting

1. Raise Up The Sheets 2. Why Are You So Unforgiving? 3. The Child We Almost Had 4. Frankie & Johnny 5. Positive Vibes 6. Wolves That Raised You 7. Hotels 8. Bigger Man 9. Try To Be Kind 10. New Folksongs For New Buildings

Tour Dates

09.19 – Glasslands Gallery – Brooklyn, New York 09.28 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, New York 10.05 – Beachland Ball Room – Cleveland, OH 10.06 – Double Happiness – Columbus, Ohio 10.07 – Venue TBD – Detroit, MI 10.08 – The Burlington – Chicago, IL 10.09 – Glasslands Gallery – Brooklyn, New York 10.10 – Mojo Main – Newark, DE* 10.11 – The Fire – Philadelphia, PA* 10.12 – Asbury Lanes – Asbury Park, NJ* 10.13 – Rocks Off Cruise – New York, NY* 10.14 – PA’s Lounge – Somerville, MA*

*w/ Riverboat Gamblers & Cobra Skulls

For their latest offering, Raise Up The Sheets, Freshkills tapped ‘elegant degenerate’ Jim Sclavunos, the No Wave icon who performed with Sonic Youth, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and the Cramps before hopping behind the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ drum kit. Sclavunos: “Freshkills inhabit a dark but thrilling underworld in which relentless machine-like rhythmic intensity hammers ear-anvils at the bidding of wryly louche after-hours philosophy. They’re the visceral embodiment of power and poetry.”

Raise Up The Sheets attacks on every front like a pandemic. The songs are prettier, darker, more concise and more expansive. Lipez is wounded and acerbic, the rhythm section both tight and monstrous with military precision and vulgar swing, the twin guitars frantic, chaotic and dangerous as a sharpened screwdriver. The whole band sounds like they’ve been cornered and will have to fight their way out. It’s anyone’s guess who will win, but either way, it’ll be worth watching.

Freshkills has toured the US and UK, sharing the stage with acts like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sleigh Bells, TV On The Radio, …Trail of Dead and Mission of Burma.