Pitchfork

Dreamy French popsters Cyann & Ben are having a busy month. The former Gooom-ies are now signed to Ever Records, on which they released a four-song aperitif of an EP on August 14. The Sunny Morning EP featured two tracks from the band's forthcoming full-length-- "Sunny Morning" (which features vocals from Espers' Greg Weeks) and "Let It Play"-- in addition to two other completely new songs and a Sylvain Gouverneur-directed video for "Let It Play".

The full-length, Sweet Beliefs, is scheduled for a European release this coming Monday, September 11. The label's website calls the album more of the same "psychedelic, noble, fragile, pastoral, experimental and incandescent...otherworldly grandeur" we've come to expect from the deceptively named quartet. Ever Records is planning to release both the EP and the LP in the U.S. in early 2007, but exact dates have yet to be confirmed.

The band have also just announced European dates for the fall. They begin September 19 in Paris and end December 13 in Strasbourg. Needless to say, it's a French-heavy itinerary.

Tracklist:

01 Words
02 Sunny Morning
03 Sweet Beliefs
04 In Union With...
05 Guilty
06 Recurring
07 Let It Play
08 Somewhere in the Light of Time
09 Sparks of Love

Dates:

09-14 Paris, France - Le Zebre
09-18 Paris, France - Ground Zero (acoustic instore)
09-19 Paris, France - Le Tryptique *
09-20 Charleville-Mezieres, France - Sopaic Festival
09-23 Château-Gontier, France - Le Foirail Festival
09-28 London, England - Legion $
10-26 Nantes, France - Le Lieu Unique (Yamoï Festival) #
10-28 Bordeaux, France - Heretic
11-02 Roubaix, France - La Condition Publique
11-09 Lyon, France - Sirius
11-15 London, England - Luminaire
11-29 Paris, France - Point Ephémère
12-13 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie ^

* with Apollo Height ft. Robyn Guthrie & Mike Ladd
$ with the Radio Dept., Fields, DJ Ulrich Schnauss
# with Grizzly Bear
^ with Minor Majority