Pitchfork

After being whittled down from a trio to a duo and going into the studio with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo earlier this year, the Magik Markers have re-entered the outside world. They will release their new record on September 25 via Thurston Moore's label Ecstatic Peace. That record, BOSS, is the band's first official studio album.

Shortly after BOSS' release, the Markers will hit the road. The dates of their tour are still forthcoming, but it will start October 1. Joining guitarist/vocalist Elisa Ambrogio and drummer Pete Nolan in the touring ensemble will be Comets on Fire/Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny and multi-instrumentalist Julie Tomlinson.

Check out Lee Ranaldo talking about working with Magik Markers in this here video clip. If the soundtrack is any indication, he isn't lying when he says this album has actual "songs" on it!

Tracklist:

01 Axis Mundi
02 Body Rot
03 Last of the Lemach Line
04 Empty Bottles
05 Taste
06 Four/The Ballad of Harry Angstrom
07 Pat Garrett
08 Bad Dream/Hartford's Beat Suite
09 Circle