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Palindromic spazz-core phenoms So Many Dynamos crash-landed at Chicago's the Note last Thursday, shell-shocking bystanders with Dismemberment Plan-derived seizure pop from their latest, Flashlights (due next month via Skrocki Records). Dudes looked ordinary and innocuous enough setting up, but once the lights went out, the St. Louis-based fourpiece let out the electricity in fits and jolts-- jittery, stop-start guitars, clipped shouts, hairpin rhythmic turns-- like so many, er, energy-producing machines. Yeah. Impressively, they sustained that manic energy throughout, and this remarkably consistent performance suggested So Many Dynamos are at least sharing a rung with Thunderbirds Are Now! on the admittedly tall ladder to the vacated Plan throne.

The gents celebrate the release of Flashlights by reuniting with the road next month. Dates and photos after the jump.

So many dates:

09-12 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
09-13 Dekalb, IL - House Café ^
09-15 Beloit, WI - Beloit University ^
09-16 Decatur, IL - Millikin University (Bouncefest)
09-20 Hot Springs, AR - The Exchange
09-22 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington #
09-24 Austin, TX - Emo's $
09-26 Bartlesville, OK - Wherehouse
09-28 Sioux Falls, SD - Discordia
09-29 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews %
09-30 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
10-01 Glen Carbon, IL - Glen Carbon Senior Center
10-16 Laramie, WY - Whitney's House !
10-18 Missoula, MT - The Raven
10-19 Spokane, WA - Rock Coffee
10-21 Seattle, WA - The Paradox
10-27 Visalia, CA - Howie & Son's Pizza

* with Victory at Sea
^ with Casper and the Cookies
# with the French Kicks
$ with Supersystem, Zombi
% with Cities
! with Cinemechanica