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Since Dirty Three sticksman Jim White helped lay the rhythm on Nina Nastasia's past two solo albums and has long served in her live band (not to mention his work with a kajillion other folks), it's hardly surprising singer/guitarist Nastasia and drummer White have joined forces for a new album that will bear both their names.

You Follow Me by Nina Nastasia & Jim White serves as the follow-up of sorts to last year's Nastasia disc On Leaving. It arrives August 14 in North America and May 28 elsewhere via FatCat Records, which Google still seems to think is a "hip British IDM label."

White and Nastasia recorded You Follow Me with stilts fetishist Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, and developed their compositions with help from Nastasia's partner Kennan Gudjonsson. The result sounds a bit like free jazz tugging at the seams of traditional folk.

Nastasia will Follow Adem and Richard Swift to a string of UK gigs next month. White won't be around, as he's touring Europe presently with Dirty Three. He also performs as part of Cat Power's Dirty Delta Blues band on her tour, which includes a stop at the rather nifty Pitchfork Music Festival.

You Follow Me:

01 I've Been Out Walking
02 I Write Down Lists
03 Odd Said the Doe
04 The Day I Would Bury You
05 Our Discussion
06 In the Evening
07 There Is No Train
08 Late Night
09 How Will You Love Me
10 I Come After You

Nina Nastasia dates:

06-02 London, England - Conway Hall *
06-05 Cambridge, England - Junction Theatre *#
06-06 Colchester, England - Arts Centre *#
06-07 Bristol, England - Fleece *#
06-08 Cardiff, England - Point *#
06-09 Birmingham, England - Mac Arena *#
06-10 Brighton, England - St Georges Church *#
06-11 Norwich, England - Arts Centre *#
06-12 Reading, England - Concert Hall *#
06-13 Exeter, England - Phoenix *#

* with Adem & Elysian String Quartet
# with Richard Swift

Dirty Three dates:

05-24 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
05-25 Faenza, Italy - Teatro Masini
05-26 Venice, Italy - Teatro Fondamenta
05-27 Bern, Switzerland - ISC
05-29 Ljubijana, Slovenia - Orto Klub
05-30 Zagreb, Croatia - Tvornica Kulture
06-01 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-02 Lisbon, Portugal - Lux Fragil
06-06 Istanbul, Turkey - Studio Live
06-08 Athens, Greece - Gagarin
06-09 Thessaloniki, Greece - Hyroyas