What are you doing right now? “Well, I don’t know, I was just pulling out my calendar actually…” Damn right you were. You were pulling it out because you had the premonition that I was about to come to you to drop some knowledge about a new Faust full-length that’s coming out in November on Bureau B. “Uhh, didn’t I read about that on Pitchfork already?” Shut up. Whatever.
Look: the album is called j US t which is pronounced, apparently, “Just Us,” and it’s coming out November 28. It’s the first album from the long-standing krautrock band since 2011’s Something Dirty. Do you blanche when writers on the internet call bands “legendary” or “seminal?” Well then you better cover your ears/eyes/nose because these guys are both legendary and seminal at the same time! Through break-ups, weird bifurcations, and now a total of six different generations of Apple’s iPhone, the group has persisted as one of the galaxy’s foremost practitioners of krautrock depth-charging. They’re planning to pop off a couple of dates in November of this year and December of next year, which are all posted below. You can pre-order the album here, and check out snippets of three of the album’s tracks via the embed below.
j US t tracklist:
01. gerubelt
02. 80hz
03. sur le ventre
04. cavaquiñho
05. gammes
06. nähmaschine
07. nur nous
08. palpitations
09. der kaffee kocht
10. eeeeeeh…
11. ich bin ein pavian
12. ich sitze immer noch
Dates:
10.04.14 - Lisboa, Portugal - OUT Festival
11.01.14 - Berlin, German - Kulturfabrik Moabit
11.21.14 - Paris, France - BBmix
11.22.14 - Brest, France - Festival Invisible
12.11.15 - Warsaw, Poland - jhp/art
• Faust: http://www.faust-pages.com
• Bureau B: http://www.bureau-b.com
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