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Saturday Looks Good to Me have revealed the details surrounding their next record, titled Fill up the Room. Due on September 11 via K Records, it is the follow-up to 2004's Every Night (Polyvinyl), as well last year's singles/rarities collection Sound on Sound (Redder), and marks a label change for the band.

According to a press release, the forthcoming disc's subject matter departs from "heartbroken laments to investigate themes of the afterlife, women inventors and scientists, the physical breakdown of the human body in relation to artistic freedom and many other universal cycles." Holy mackerel.

The band launches a North American tour this evening in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and they will spend April and May in Europe and the UK, though specific dates have not yet been confirmed.

The journey will coincide with a limited-edition one-sided LP of exclusive new material, titled Green Mansions (Ypsilanti). It will only be available on the road and through SLGTM's MySpace page. More mini-records, including an as-of-yet untitled Polyvinyl EP, are due prior to the release of the K album.

All of this follows the band's "Money in the Afterlife"/"All the Sidewalk Birds" 7", which landed earlier this week on Ernest Jenning Record Co.. "Money in the Afterlife" is Fill up the Room's first single.

Fill up the Room tracklist:

01 Apple
02 (even if you die on the) Ocean
03 When I Lose My Eyes
04 Make a Plan
05 Peg
06 Money in the Afterlife
07 The Americans
08 Edison Girls
09 Hands in the Show
10 Come With Your Arms
11 Whitey Hands

Dates:

02-23 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig *#
02-24 Chicago, IL - Hideout (Life During Wartime DJ night)
02-25 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
02-26 Kansas City, MO - Grand Emporium *
02-27 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive *
02-28 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
03-02 Olympia, WA - Capitol Theatre Backstage *^
03-03 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club %
03-04 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey %
03-05 Portland, OR - Holocene *%
03-07 San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah *%
03-08 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland *%&
03-09 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts *%
03-10 Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad %
03-12 Dallas, TX - Ellum: Onstage Festival %
03-13 Houston, TX - Proletariat %@
03-14 Austin, TX - Convention Center (SXSW)
03-15 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-16 Austin TX - Emo's Lounge (SXSW; Polyvinyl showcase)
03-17 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-18 Birmingham, AL - BottleTree *
03-19 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn Room at MJQ Concourse *$
03-20 TBA, NC - TBA
03-21 Lexington, KY - Mecca Dance Studio *+
03-22 Newport, KY - Southgate House *|
03-23 Bowling Green, OH - Howard‘s
03-24 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick !
05-03 Norrköping, Sweden - Klubb Republik
05-04 Stockhom, Sweden - Svenska Musikklubben at Debaser Media =
05-06 Malmö, Sweden - Debaser
05-08 Newcastle upon Tyne, England - Cuckoo Press at Cumberland Arms
05-09 Aberdeen, Scotland - TBA
05-10 Bristol, England - Thekla
05-11 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
05-12 London, England - TBA
05-13 Norwich, England - TBA
05-14 Nottingham, England - TBA
05-17 Valencia, Spain - TBA
05-18 Barcelona, Spain - Nista Club
05-19 Madrid, Spain - Neu! Club
05-22 TBA, Germany - TBA
05-23 Berlin, Germany - TBA
05-24 Hamburg, Germany - TBA
05-25 Amsterdam, the Netherlands - TBA
05-26 Aarhus, Denmark - TBA

* with Chris Bathgate
# with Starling Electric
^ with Calvin Johnson
% with Ladyhawk
& with Bright Light Fever
@ with Castenets, Birds of Avalon
$ with Oppenheimer, Sovus Radio
+ with Bears
| with Fairmount Girls
! with the Paybacks
= with Of Montreal

[photo by Doug Coombe]