Comin’ at you LIVE from downtown Hollywood with slightly stale news on the latest from Baltimore wunderkind duo Beach House. Surely you remember their debut album from last year, a collection of chopped and screwed Yo La Tengo remixes? Well, they’ve finally acquired the rights to a couple more YLT songs and they’ve got a sizable dollop of Vaseline to smear all over the finished product, so the go ahead for second album’s production is now, now, now! That slab of wax will be available in the cool early morning of February 26 in the year of our Lord 2008, via Carpark Records.

Devotion is its name, which according to the cover art implies a devotion to eating a full cake in one sitting among two waifish musicians. The tracklist can be perused forthwith:

1. Wedding Bells 2. You Came To Me 3. Gila 4. Turtle Island 5. Holy Dances 6. All The Years 7. Heart Of Chamber 8. Some Things Last A Long Time (Daniel Johnston cover!) 9. Astronaut 10. Home Again 11. d.a.r.l.i.n.g.

Furthermore, the two lean-sippers will be celebrating the approach of this second album by scouring the UK area for errant lads who’re up for a bit of nutter, init?

10.25.07 - Schorndorf - Manufaktur 10.26.07 - Dresden - Starclub 10.27.07 - Amsterdam - Paradiso 10.28.07 - Kortrijk - De Kreun 10.29.07 - Rotterdam - worm 10.30.07 - Paris - La Fleche d’or 11.01.07 - Luzern - Boa 11.02.07 - Geneva - L’usine 11.03.07 - Ravenna - Bronson 11.04.07 - Pistola - Melos 11.05.07 - Munich - Orangehouse 11.06.07 - Köln - Tsunami 11.07.07 - Fribourg - Fri-son 11.09.07 - Brussel - Botanique 11.10.07 - Cambridge, UK - Graduate 11.11.07 - Leeds, UK - Faversham 11.12.07 - Manchester, UK - Night & Day 11.13.07 - Glasgow, UK - The Admiral 11.15.07 - Birmingham, UK - Glee Club 11.16.07 - London, UK - Water Rats

Now back to you, Mango Starr.